Word: mccann
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...freezing blast that is hitting the industry, the economic recession that began last summer represents the "wind-chill factor," says Young & Rubicam chairman Peter Georgescu. Ad spending, which rose only 2.4% last year, to $128.6 billion, is expected to increase just 3.1% this year, according to McCann-Erickson's Robert Coen, the industry's leading forecaster. In order to cut costs and ride out the slump, Madison Avenue has trimmed hundreds of professionals from its ranks during the past year -- and the / cutbacks are far from over...
Agencies are scurrying to meet the new demands made by haggling clients. Last December the New York agency Avrett, Free & Ginsberg won the $45 million TWA account by offering to work for a 5% commission on the business, roughly half the going rate. This month Sean Fitzpatrick, McCann-Erickson's chief creative officer for North America, will move from New York City to Detroit in order to keep a closer watch over his agency's $500 million account with...
Meanwhile, the stampede of account switching has put a premium on the industry's creative talent. Gordon Bowen, a top creative executive at Ogilvy & Mather, hardly raised an eyebrow last week when six dozen roses were delivered to him as he ate breakfast in a Manhattan restaurant. Rival agency McCann-Erickson sent the bouquet as part of its campaign to persuade him to switch shops. As the principal executive on the restless American Express account, Bowen conceivably could leave home with the business. If that were to happen, $300 worth of roses would go down in advertising history...
...special flavor to music heard live in clubs: more relaxed than on records -- often fiercer too, with inhibiting mikes out of the performers' way. The first releases from Night Records, a new Virgin Records label specializing in live performances, catch four jazz stylists (Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Les McCann, Eddie Harris and Cannonball Adderley) in moods that seldom found their way onto more formal recordings. Kirk, best known for his atonal virtuosity in blowing three saxes at once, plays clarinet with a traditional New Orleans band in a sly, down-home version of The Black and Crazy Blues. And McCann...
...Vukonich 25 30 23 53 11/2 Ted Drury 23 15 17 32 9/18 Steve Flomenhoft 26 10 13 23 19/38 Derek Maguire 22 2 14 16 6/12 Tim Burke 26 10 6 16 15/38 Matt Mallgrave 24 4 11 15 7/14 Scott Barringer 26 5 8 13 9/18 Sean McCann 26 2 9 11 39/78 Brian Farrell 26 3 7 10 7/14 John Weisbrod 5 2 8 10 4/8 Brian McCormack 26 0 7 7 11/30 Lou Body 25 1 5 6 4/8 Michel Breistoff 17 3 2 5 8/16 Jim Coady 26 2 3 5 14/28 Kevin Sneddon...