Aegis Group appoints Buhlmann CEO and reports 22% pre-tax profit drop

Tim Burrowes

March 19, 2010 9:17

Aegis, the marketing services group, has appointed Jerry Buhlmann as its new chief executive at the same time as it announced a 22 per cent fall in pre-tax profit to $247.4m (£149.3m) for the year ending 2009.

Buhlmann, currently CEO of its media-buying division Aegis Media which includes Carat, Isobar and Vizeum, will take over from interim chief executive and chairman John Napier on May 1.

Napier has been in the interim role since the departure of Robert Lerwill in November 2008.

The group is also proposing to raise £175m to fund acquisitions.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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