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Lucky Generals partner Sara Tate, a former managing director at Mother, is to be the new CEO of TBWA London. At the same time Lucky Generals co-founder Helen Calcraft is to become CEO of TBWA Group in the UK. TBWA ...

Upscale beauty retailer Crabtree & Evelyn has hired London advertising agency The Corner as its new global creative agency as it rings the marketing changes. The appointment follows a competitive pitch. The Corner will lead Crabtree’s global creative campaign strategy, ...

Paris has won the race to handle the 2024 Olympics, for the third time after 1900 and 1924 (Chariots of Fire and all that). Hosting the Olympics is not necessarily a benefit: London 2012 arguably was (not least for West ...

Think adam&eveDDB and it’s John Lewis, Halifax, Lloyds, Unilever and all the rest. These blue chips have now been joined by Bear Nibbles, which makes cold-pressed fruit snacks aimed at children including Yoyos, Alphabites and Paws & Claws. Bear Nibbles ...

New York’s relationship with bagels is a wonder to behold so, for the New York Bakery Co., London agency Now has tracked down formidable 82-year old Edna, the woman who, it seems, “runs New York.” Edna doesn’t believe in any ...

Almost every brand says they put their customer at the heart of what they do, but almost all struggle to actually do it. There are too many silos, legacy systems, processes and company structures that get in the way. Yet, ...

Paul Hammersley has signed up four more agencies for his Harbour collective, which aims to be a new-style network of independent agencies. They are digital creative agency Dare, owned by Oliver which is already a member; creative content agency Digital ...

Challenger mobile network iD Mobile is sending up the hype around tech launches – think Apple’s bewildering new line-up – with an online and social campaign through The&Partnership’s AllTogetherNow for its SIM-only offer. Is one reason people are prepared to ...

The senior agency executive recoiled in horror when I suggested that creative and media agencies were tiptoeing back to full service. “Clients will just say they want the creative or media for nothing!” And there’s something to be said for ...