Havas Australia and New Zealand, part of global communications group Havas, has opened a new office, Melbourne Village in Richmond, a move that unites all owned agencies in Melbourne. The Melbourne Havas Village houses more than 100 staff from its agencies Havas Red, Havas Media, Havas Play, Havas Host, Bastion Brands and Pulse, elevating the network’s ability to deliver highly specialised yet integrated communications, media, creative, health, social, production, experiential, and digital marketing services. The Melbourne hub complements the established Sydney Havas Village, which is home to more than 300 specialists across nine agencies, with additional offices and staffers located in Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart, and Perth, as well as Auckland, New Zealand. Havas has invested heavily in Australia over the past three years, acquiring agencies Frontier Media, Australian Public Affairs (APA), Bastion Brands, and Hotglue, the latter two of which are headquartered in Melbourne (Hotglue now operates as Havas Media Melbourne, and APA as H/Advisors APA). Located at 4-12 Amsterdam Street in Richmond, Melbourne Havas Village is designed as a true creative and collaboration hub, including dedicated state-of-the-art content and production studios, and large indoor and outdoor meeting and entertainment spaces.