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George Parker: how P&G and Charmin toilet tissue introduced me to adland's La Dolce Vita

George Parker: how P&G and Charmin toilet tissue introduced me to adland’s La Dolce Vita

By George Parker on May 13, 2013

My first real agency job in the US after escaping England for the second time was with Benton & Bowles, which after many dumb fuck mergers became DMB&B, which was acquired by Publicis and closed down by le frogs in 2002 after it turned to merde. When I joined what was then a great US [...]

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More Mad Men tales: Adscam's George Parker spilling the beans on Madison Avenue and money

More Mad Men tales: Adscam’s George Parker spilling the beans on Madison Avenue and money

By Staff on March 14, 2012

Our extract from Jane Maas’s enlightening tale Mad Women:The Other Side of Madison Avenue in the ’60s and Beyond seems to be proving popular (is it the advertising or the sex, or the combination of the two?) so we thought we’d follow it with some George Parker. George is a British creative who hit New [...]

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