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The organisers of the Cannes festival are threatening to move the annual advertising beanfeast to Barcelona because of a dispute with the host town's officials.
The International Advertising Festival will not say what the row is about. "We are still in discussions and we will make an announcement within the next ten days," the festival's spokeswoman, Amanda Benfell, said.
The dispute, the latest in what has often been a combative relationship between the organisers and the host resort, is understood to centre on the wish of Bernard Brochand, Cannes' newly elected mayor, to renegotiate the festival's contract.
Brochand, who is also DDB Worldwide's vice-chairman, has outraged the festival's organisers over his pledge to appease the town's elderly residents by making the festival pay even more for the ...