South Africa, April 14 -- The results include:

"In what remains an uncertain global context, we are committed to giving visibility into our performance for the rest of the year.

"We are confirming our industry-leading organic growth guidance of 4-5%, with the 4% rock solid, and a sequential organic growth acceleration in Q2 despite a higher comparable of 100 basis points," says Arthur Sadoun, chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe.

3 reasons for outperformance

He adds that the company is, at a time when the industry has seen more changes in the last 12 months than the last 12 years, confident that it will outperform again in 2026 and beyond.

He gives three reasons for this:

Focus on clients' growth

"With our transformation well behind...