| .jpg) | | | | |  | | Sir John Hegarty and the investment specialist Tom Teichman are launching an incubator business called The Garage and have bought a townhouse in Soho to hothouse start-ups at seed stage. | | | | | |  | | ITV has promoted Kelly Williams, the group commercial sales director, to managing director of commercial, as Fru Hazlitt steps down. | | | | | |  | | The Advertising Standards Authority has decided not to investigate the Sainsbury's Christmas ad despite 727 complaints that its depiction of the First World War was distasteful. | | | | | |  | | General Mills, the food company, is to consolidate the UK agency roster on its estimated £11 million account. | | | | | |  | | Mattel, the toy-maker, is looking for a creative agency to handle its Barbie brand. | | | | | |  | | Paul Hammersley, the chief executive of EDC UK, is leaving the agency group, following its operational separation from its sister agencies in North America. | | | | | |  | | Dorchester Collection, which manages ten luxury hotels around the world, is looking for a creative agency. | | | | | | | |  | | Gravity Road, the agency founded by Mark Boyd and Mark Eaves, has hired Katie Lee, the managing director of Leo Burnett London, as its first managing director. | | | | | |  | | Adam & Eve/DDB has been appointed by Unilever to lead the global advertising for its premium French food brand Maille. | | | | | |  | | Cheil Worldwide is buying a stake in Iris as part of a deal giving the South Korean agency group the option to later acquire 100 per cent of the business. | | | | | |  | | The advertising industry has seen a steady increase in the number of women in senior positions and people of ethnic minorities, according to the latest IPA Agency Census. | | | | | | | |  | | Marks & Spencer has won Campaign's hotly contested battle of the Christmas ads, with over 30 per cent of the online votes. | | | | | | | |  | | Cheil Worldwide has acquired a stake in Iris Worldwide in a deal that could value the agency at £80 million. | | | | | |  | | The Havas board has approved the Bolloré Group's attempt to buy a controlling stake in the company. | | | | | | | |  | | Sainsbury's has started a review of its £60 million media planning and buying business, handled by PHD for 19 years. | | | | | |  | | The & Partnership is launching a content agency and has hired Conor McNicholas, the executive content director at Redwood BBDO and a former editor of NME and Top Gear, to run the new company. | | | | | | | |  | | Ray Morgan, who has died aged 82, may have been credited with killing off the full-service agency. But he was a most unlikely assassin. | | | | | | |
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