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Man who didn't cause the world's most infamous marketing disaster dies

Man who didn’t cause the world’s most infamous marketing disaster dies

By Stuart Smith on March 8, 2013

The death late last month of Roy Brown Jr, aged 96, is a timely reminder of that old adage: success has many authors, failure but one scapegoat. The reality, as we shall see, is not uncommonly the inverse. Brown was Ford’s top designer during the Fifties and it was his misfortune to be saddled with [...]

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Can Foot Cone & Belding (aka DraftFCB) ever recapture its past glories in the UK?

Can Foot Cone & Belding (aka DraftFCB) ever recapture its past glories in the UK?

By Stephen Foster on April 11, 2011

DraftFCB’s London outpost has been shuffling the deck chairs, promoting managing partner Sharon Jiggins (who looks after its Post Office account) from managing partner to managing director. But the agency, which is owned by Interpublic, looks further away than ever from recapturing its past glories in the UK when as Foote Cone & Belding it [...]

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