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What's in a name? Publicis challenges India antitrust probe over brand-versus-entity jumble

New Delhi: France's Publicis has launched a court challenge against India's antitrust body over ​its toughest-ever crackdown on the advertising industry, ​arguing the regulator has wrongly put the global brand name "Publicis Groupe" in the ​dock instead of the Indian legal entity.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) last year rattled India's nearly $30 billion media and entertainment industry with dawn raids on the local operations of WPP's GroupM, Dentsu, Publicis, Omnicom and other agencies over suspected collusion on advertising ‌rates and discounts.

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