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BBDO Detroit to Furlough Employees

Most of BBDO Detroit’s remaining 450 employees will take a mandatory two-week unpaid furlough this month. The ad agency is characterizing the time off as both a “furlough” and an “unpaid vacation.” Twenty-five employees will continue to work, to support BBDO North America accounts; they will also be furloughed for a week. Many of those furloughed work on [...]

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BBDO Says It Never Hired Anti-Semitic Terrorist

Manhattan-based BBDO says it never employed terror attack suspect James W. von Brunn, despite the man’s claims he worked for the ad agency as a copywriter and assistant art director. Von Brunn opened fire in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC yesterday, killing a security guard. He was charged in federal court today [...]

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Mullen Hires Leikikh as Managing Partner

Mullen has brought on Alex Leikikh, formerly a group account director at Fallon, as managing partner, director of account service. The position was created for Leikikh, who becomes the tenth member of Mullen’s executive committee. At Minneapolis’ Fallon, Leikikh worked on United Airlines and BMW. Just a week ago, Mullen moved its headquarters from an historic manor house [...]

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