Campaign articles from July 2004

Campaign archives from July 2004

DDB's Paterson quits for BBH role.(Ewan Paterson)(DDB and Co.)(Bartle Bogle Hegarty)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Ewan Paterson, the joint creative director of DDB, is leaving the agency to join Bartle Bogle Hegarty in a move that will see Jeremy Craigen take sole command of DDB's creative department. Similarly, the joint planning director Lucy...

Collins' future with Lowe in doubt after tumultuous period.(Damon Collins)(Lowe and Partners)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Damon Collins, the executive creative director at Lowe, is believed to be leaving the agency. Matthew Bull, the chief executive, would not confirm the departure but admitted: 'Damon and I are having ongoing discussions.' Collins, who...

Pounds 6m for Walker in M&C Saatchi float.(Christine Walker )
July 2, 2004... Christine Walker is set to make a paper fortune of at least pounds 6 million after Walker Media was valued at pounds 18 million for the forthcoming M&C Saatchi IPO. Walker and her partner, Phil Georgiadis, will initially walk away with...

Agencies line up as Co-op calls creative review.(Co-operative Group Ltd)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... The Co-operative Group is inviting agencies to pitch for the creative account to promote its membership programme, which incorporates its financial services, funeral and insurance brands. The Haystack Group, which is overseeing the process,...

Grey Global calls in investment bankers to draft dollars 1.3bn sale.(Grey Global Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... After years of resisting the trend towards consolidation, Grey Global has finally responded to market forces by putting itself up for sale. Last week, Grey called in Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase to explore a sale, likely to value Grey...

Cannes ad festival under the hammer.(Cannes International Advertising Festival)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... The Cannes International Advertising Festival is to be sold by its millionaire owner and chairman, Roger Hatchuel, for an estimated pounds 50 million. The 71-year-old Hatchuel, who runs the festival as a privately owned company, is locked...

Tilda rice appoints Ogilvy & Mather for creative ad account.(advertising)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Ogilvy & Mather has won the creative advertising account for the Basmati rice brand Tilda. It scooped the business, which spent pounds 1 million above the line last year, after a series of strategic presentations involving a number of...

BBC outlines priorities in charter-review case.(nine-point manifesto submission)(British Broadcasting Corp.)
July 2, 2004... In its wide-ranging case for the renewal of its royal charter, the BBC has promised to put 'public value' rather than a desire to compete with its commercial rivals at the heart of its services. Mark Thompson, the director-general of the...

Party political work to remain exempt from CAP code.(Electoral Commission)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Party political campaigns are to remain outside the ad industry's code of practice after a review by the independent Electoral Commission. Despite calls by the Committee on Standards in Public Life for parties to draw up a new code, the...

WPP hails increase in revenues for first five months of 2004.(WPP Group PLC)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... WPP announced a 2 per cent increase in revenues for the first five months of the year and predicted a better year than 2003. At its annual general meeting, where shareholders voted in favour of WPP's executive pay package, the advertising...

WCRS to take stake in branded-content outfit from staffers.(Huge Entertainment)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... WCRS is set to back a new branded-content company, Huge Entertainment, which is being set up by two former WCRS staffers, Jonathan Hill and Sally Weaver. Launching on 26 July, Huge will develop non-traditional communications solutions for...

O'Malley returns for McCann role.(Damian O'Malley)(McCann-Erickson Inc)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Damian O'Malley, the one-time founder of Woollams Moira Gaskin O'Malley, is returning to the UK to complete the new management line-up at McCann Erickson as the executive planning director, UK and Ireland, and the vice-president of planning,...

DLKW, Broadway and Vauxhall in row over UK employment law.(Delaney Lund Knox Warren & Partners)(Lowe Broadway)(Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment regulations)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Delaney Lund Knox Warren & Partners, Lowe Broadway and Vauxhall are embroiled in a legal battle over the car-maker's dealership account, which DLKW picked up earlier this year. Broadway, formerly part of Interpublic, is attempting to invoke...

CHI direct operation hires Warren Moore as creative director.(Clemmow Hornby Inge)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Clemmow Hornby Inge's direct marketing operation has appointed Warren Moore as its creative director. Hall Moore CHI launches this week with the former Proximity chief executive Simon Hall at the helm. Moore worked with Hall at...

Vodafone Live! hands JWT its creative reins.(J. Walter Thompson Co)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... David Beckham will take a reduced role in forthcoming Vodafone Live! advertising, following the decision to hand the brand's creative brief to J. Walter Thompson. JWT won the business this week after a shoot-out against its fellow roster...

Hotline: Chelsea Stores appoints Proximity London.(Chelsea Stores)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Chelsea Stores, the holding company of The Early Learning Centre and Daisy & Tom, has appointed Proximity London to help develop its marketing strategy. In the early stages of the relationship Tim Patten, the managing partner of Proximity, will...

Hotline: HHCL/Red Cell appoints Kate Morse.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... HHCL/Red Cell has poached Kate Morse, the BT account director at St Luke's, to take charge of its Pot Noodle and Sky TV accounts. Morse, 28, one of this year's Campaign Faces to Watch, began her agency career at D'Arcy in 2000.

Hotline: Guardian Newspapers to invest in new formats of The Gaurdian and The Observer.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Guardian Newspapers is to invest pounds 50 million in new formats of The Guardian and The Observer. The 'berliner' format, a slimmed-down version of the existing title, is expected to appear by 2006.

Hotline: Profero wins brief from the Home Office.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Profero has won a brief from the Home Office and the Department of Health to create online support for the drugs campaign Frank. The agency won the account after a five-way pitch process managed by COI Communications.

Hotline: Dennis Publishing shortlists agencies.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Dennis Publishing has shortlisted DFGW, Boymeetsgirl and River Communications to pitch for the pounds 4.5 million launch of its new car magazine, codenamed Project Squirrel. It has also announced that BLM will handle its media.

Hotline: Barb launches service to provide sponsored programme data.(Broadcasters' Audience Research Board Ltd.)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Barb is launching a service that provides ratings data for sponsored programmes. The service is running on a test basis and will become operational in the autumn.

Hotline: Emap Advertising announces exclusive deal.(Smirnoff Black Ice)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Emap Advertising has announced an exclusive deal with Smirnoff Black Ice across Emap's men's titles, including FHM, Arena, Empire, Q and Zoo. The deal, worth pounds 450,000, was brokered by Carat and has been developed to tie in with the...

Hotline: Cdp-travissully bolsters relationship with NEC.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Cdp-travissully has bolstered its relationship with NEC, the Japanese electronics giant. NEC has appointed the agency to handle the promotion of its mobile handsets in the UK, The Netherlands and Germany after a three-way pitch. Cdp-travissully...

Hotline: IPC appoints divisional managing director.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... IPC has appointed Paul Williams to the role of managing director of its Country & Leisure Media division. Williams has been the commercial director of the CALM Marine division since 2000 and was appointed as the acting managing director of the...

Hotline: Colin Reid appointed managing director of The Voice.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Colin Reid has been appointed the managing director of the black newspaper The Voice. This follows the acquisition of the paper by The Gleaner Group.

Hotline: Hachette Filipacchi announces Iain R Webb is leaving.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Hachette Filipacchi has announced that Iain R Webb is leaving his position as the fashion director of Elle after seven years to pursue a freelance career.

Hotline: The APA names Jason Frost as its chairman elect.(Association of Publishing Agencies )(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... The Association of Publishing Agencies has named Jason Frost as its chairman elect. Frost, the managing director of Publicis Blueprint, will take over from the current chairman, Lisa Barnard of Illustrated London News, in June 2005.

Hotline: Rocket wins media account for Crimestoppers.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Rocket has won the media account for the crime prevention organisation Crimestoppers. The agency will work with Quiet Storm on the account.

Hotline: Outdoor Connection eliminated from COI pitch.(COI Communications)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Outdoor Connection has been eliminated from the pitch for the COI Communications outdoor buying account. Posterscope will battle it out with the incumbent agency, Portland Outdoor.

Hotline: Peter Woodhouse has died.(Obituary)
July 2, 2004... Peter Woodhouse, who was the secretary of the IPA as the industry adjusted to the arrival of commercial TV, has died aged 83. He quit the IPA after 13 years in 1969 before taking over as the head of advertising control at the Independent...

TBWA London wins Cannes Grand Prix.(Bryan Buckley, Shirley Temple, Bartle Bogle Hegarty were awarded in Cannes Internationa; Advertising Festival)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... TBWA\London won the Film Grand Prix at this year's Cannes International Advertising Festival for its 'mountain' ad for Sony PlayStation. The spot, written by Tony McTear and art directed by Paula Marcantonio and McTear, was directed by...

RAB anticipates a 10 per cent share of ad revenue in six years.(Radio Advertising Bureau)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... The Radio Advertising Bureau has predicted that commercial radio can achieve a 10 per cent share of display advertising revenue, the first time it has targeted such ambitious growth. Douglas McArthur, the chief executive of the RAB, said...

Tories target voters in red-tape ad campaign.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... The Conservative Party is launching its first salvo in the run-up to the next general election under the banner: 'The right to choose.' Immediate Sales, a division of M&C Saatchi, has developed a fully integrated campaign, backed by a...

PS2 work celebrates 'sporting champions'.(playstation 2)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... TBWA\London has created a campaign for Sony PlayStation that plays on the British inability to succeed in sporting events. The national press, outdoor and radio ads, which break this week, aim to capture the feeling of winning a major...

Sky aims for sense of theatre in family entertainment ads.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... HHCL/Red Cell has created a campaign for Sky, focusing on the range of family entertainment available over the summer holidays. The poster campaign attempts to convey a sense of theatre by appearing to unveil the new releases from behind a...

Saatchis relaunches Toyota's Corolla.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Saatchi & Saatchi is supporting the relaunch of Toyota's Corolla marque with a TV campaign that develops the 'car to be proud of' theme. The ads, which target a young, pre-family audience of late 20- to 30-year-olds, position the car as a...

Zip TV set to launch its TV channel after Morgan investment.(Morgan Ventures)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Zip TV, the interactive advertising company, is to launch its TV channel next month after securing investment from Morgan Ventures. Morgan, an international investment company, is backing the launch, which hopes to offer advertisers new...

Coughlin stands down as IPG's financial chief.(Interpublic Group of Companies Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Interpublic's chief financial officer, Christopher Coughlin, has announced that he is retiring from the company. Coughlin, 51, claimed he is leaving to 'spend more time with his family' but his departure has fuelled uncertainty about the...

Nicorette unveils fresh mint gum via AMV BBDO TV push.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Nicorette aims to show how smokers can overcome their cravings in Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO's latest ad for its chewing gum. The TV executions launch the fresh mint gum, designed to help people quit smoking. A 40-second ad and a...

Start-rite campaign pushes importance of well-fitting shoes.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Mustoes has created a press and poster campaign for the children's shoe company Start-rite to encourage parents to buy their children properly fitting school shoes. National 48- and six-sheet posters will launch on 15 July, with a press...

Hyundai bids for growth in VCCP ads.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest is unveiling its debut work for the car manufacturer Hyundai. The agency won the pounds 12 million account, previously held by Leagas Delaney, in February after beating Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO in a...

Larkin takes on new global marketer role for Media Audits UK.(Mike Larkin)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Mike Larkin is leaving his job as the managing director of Media Audits UK to be replaced by his deputy, Pip Hainsworth. Larkin is moving to the newly created role of global sales and marketing director at Media Audits, where he will lead...

Burnett creates fresh drink-drive campaign.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Leo Burnett has created a pounds 1.5 million campaign for the Department of Transport to tackle drink-driving. A 30-second TV ad, 'crash', will run on national, terrestrial channels in the summer and in the run-up to Christmas, to coincide...

E4 creative promotes its adult credentials.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Channel 4 is aiming to shake off E4's young image with an on- and off-air campaign promoting the more adult nature of some of its shows. The campaign, devised by 4Creative and Naked, packages together some of its forthcoming series of The...

JWT continues with obsessive theme for Crunchy Nut activity.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Kellogg's Crunchy Nut Cornflakes appear in a range of unexpected places, in a new series of press ads created by J. Walter Thompson. The five versions develop the 'obviously another Crunchy Nut' campaign by showing how far people will go...

ITV bosses play down potential costs of CRR.
July 2, 2004... Graham Duff, the managing director of ITV Sales, has played down the threat that the Contract Rights Renewal procedure poses to ITV's revenues. Campaign reported last month that CRR, which allows agencies to proportionately change their...

Kia Motors appeals to thinking people.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Mustoes is launching a pounds 15 million campaign for Kia Motors on 1 July positioning the marque as a car for the thinking person. The first ads to air support Kia's new small car, the Picanto, and, using the first in a series of...

O2 develops texting version of Pac-Man by Agency Republic.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... O2 is tapping the retro arcade games market with an online campaign to promote the mobile service provider's 500 free text package. The ad, created by Agency Republic, is based on the game Pac-Man. Players are challenged to give their...

Paramount launches campaign for US sitcom Two and a Half Men.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Farm Communications has created a campaign for the launch of the US comedy series Two and a Half Men on the Paramount Comedy Channel. The show is aimed at an up-market, 25- to 44-year-old male and female audience. It features the actor...

Barclays continues its fluent in finance ads with new faces.(Donald Sutherland, Gary Oldman)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Barclays is launching its latest 'fluent in finance' spots, starring the actors Donald Sutherland and Gary Oldman. The pair replace Samuel L Jackson in the series that focuses on Barclays' financial expertise. The campaign by Bartle...

Business performance league: 2 July.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
July 2, 2004... Rank Rank Agency Wins Total Total Net this last billings billings billings week week gained lost gained ...

Media performance league: 2 July.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
July 2, 2004... Rank Rank Agency Wins Total Total Net this last billings billings billings week week gained lost gained ...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
July 2, 2004... White Door is not owned by Hat Pin, as was reported in Campaign on 25 June. The agency bought itself out of Hat Pin in 2001.

Media: Zeitgeist - New York women get a taste of things to come as Sweet Action porn mag launches.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Who says women don't get off on porn? According to the creators of a new magazine, Sweet Action, the problem in the past is that women have never been catered for properly - all they've been offered is boring old beefcake on the one hand or the...

Media Forum: Where to next for the Telegraph Group?
July 2, 2004... Are the Barclay brothers up to the challenge of getting their new acquisition back on track, Alasdair Reid enquires. So, it's the Barclays. Down at The Telegraph they were over the proverbial moon about the fact that it was the twins' money...

Media: Behind the Hype - Will Thompson's BBC really be less commercial?(British Broadcasting Corp.'s new director general Mark Thompson )
July 2, 2004... The new DG won't chuck the baby out with the bath water, as Pippa Considine reports. Mark Thompson is a well-known believer in the true spirit of public broadcasting. But he's also the new director-general of a BBC that needs money. His...

Media: Headliner: Forbes descends from Vogue heights to enjoy the easy life.(Susie Forbes to edit Easy Living)
July 2, 2004... The Vogue deputy editor is set to edit Conde Nast's Easy Living title. After nine years at Vogue, Susie Forbes confesses to having become institutionalised. But she has finally found something worthy of tempting her away from the glamorous...

Media: Perspective - Zip TV won't make a silk purse out of interactive TV ads.
July 2, 2004... It's usually easy to spot a turkey. England in penalty shoot-outs, Oasis at Glastonbury, Ross Kemp in soldier dramas. No confusion in my mind, they're all painfully bad. But life isn't always as cut and dried. Take interactive TV...

Media: Spotlight - Asda leads charge as retail media comes of age.
July 2, 2004... The initiative is the result of advertisers' demands, not agencies'. There's nothing particularly new about the retail channel - in theory, at least. In practice, it has been a fragmentary notion and the mainstream ad industry has tended...

Close-Up: Newsmaker - Coke picks home-grown talent as marketing chief.(Chuck Fruit named chief marketing officer)
July 2, 2004... Coca-Cola's Fruit deserves his name for creative use of media. Chuck Fruit may have a name with the potential to inspire a thousand puns on both sides of the Atlantic, but it hasn't hindered his elevation to the top of the world's largest...

Close-Up: On the Campaign Couch ... with JB.(answers from Jeremy Bullmore)
July 2, 2004... Q: I have just appointed an ad agency to help launch what is a pretty commercially sensitive product. I know it is keen to tell the trade press about the win but if it does then our competitors will know what we're up to. How can I ensure this...

Close-Up: Live Issue - Influence of clients in Cannes enhances the festival's value.
July 2, 2004... Creatives are now getting a chance to engage in client dialogue. Clients flocked to Cannes this year in greater numbers than ever before. There's no doubt that some were there to lig, but the majority went to learn about creativity. ...

World: Stuart Elliott in America.(Forecast of Advertising Expenditures)
July 2, 2004... Could it be that 2004 is already half over? How appropriate, in that when it comes to the advertising economy, the year seems, so far, like the proverbial glass that the pessimist describes as half empty and the optimist describes as half full....

World: Analysis - Birth of the male klutz cannot overshadow sublime film ads.
July 2, 2004... Stupid men aside, the Film jury at Cannes had much to applaud. We viewed 6,081 ads and what a load of balls they were. Basketballs, baseballs, ten-pin bowling balls, rugby balls, but mostly footballs. They say advertising is an amplified...

World: Analysis - No negatives, but no surprises in Press and Outdoor.(Cannes)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Mikkel Jangaard, the creative director of Grey Copenhagen, reveals press and outdoor trends. Before going on this, my tenth visit to Cannes, I asked myself why it is I keep coming back here. The answer, I guess, is pretty unoriginal. ...

World: Media Analysis - It can take a while to find a place for dollars 7 billion-worth of media.
July 2, 2004... Whether it's the onset of summer or an increasingly complex and protracted review process, accounts waiting for a winner are stacking up like 747s over Heathrow. This month's table boasts only four account wins worth dollars 50 million or more,...

World: Medium of the Week - French brace themselves for the arrival of Pink-TV.(gay television channel)
July 2, 2004... France's first gay TV channel caters for an undersupplied niche, Mark Tungate writes. With the launch of Pink-TV in France this autumn, the audiovisual landscape looks rosy for the country's gay community, which until now has been sorely...

World: Gallery.
July 2, 2004... Artic Vodka - Amando Testa Italy Meet Mr Ice, a superhero with a taste for Artic Vodka and Italian women. He is the star of the latest campaign by Armando Testa, Milan for Illva Saronno's vodka brand. His weaknesses combine to get the...

World: My Portfolio - Jeff Darling.
July 2, 2004... There's a dream-like quality to the ads directed by Jeff Darling. In 'trout', an ad for Sony, the Sydneysider, who's signed to @radical.media, brought a mystical twist to a familiar theme. An angler baits trout with crisp mayfly footage...

Editorial: Shops must know moral boundaries.(advertising )(Editorial)
July 2, 2004... Issues rarely come more sensitive or polarise opinion more sharply than abortion. So it is inevitable that any agency debating whether or not to pitch to a group of well-heeled anti-abortion campaigners wanting to raise the level of debate on...

Editorial: Right to self-regulate's worth paying for.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
July 2, 2004... The levy on TV and radio advertising will raise up to pounds 4 million during the next two years to help fund the self-regulation system. This is a significant amount of money but necessary if the new system is to be effective and...

Opinion: Perspective - So who is prepared to meet Grey's asking price?(advertising agency for sale)
July 2, 2004... When Ed Meyer started working on the Procter & Gamble business at Grey, Publicis' Maurice Levy was 14 years old, Sir Martin Sorrell was 11, and Omnicom's John Wren a tender four. I mention this interesting piece of trivia because it holds a...

Opinion: Newland on ... Mercedes.
July 2, 2004... When my brothers were small, they both solemnly promised my mother that when they grew up they'd each buy her a Mercedes. Such is the cachet of the Mercedes brand - it's what little boys dream about and big boys aspire to own. The long bonnet...

Adland's Entrepreneurs.
July 2, 2004... Agencies' staff don't just limit their skills to clients' brands - some have applied them to their own, Emma Barns writes. Advertising is an industry full of natural entrepreneurs, so it comes as no surprise that the business is rife with...

Private View: Rooney Carruthers, a partner and the creative director at Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest.
July 2, 2004... This is impossible, I am so (8.45 interview TV producer) busy, I don't have the time to (9.30 O2 shoot recce) do this review and give the work the time and (10.30 creative resource meeting) effort it deserves. (11.30 Jordans photographers...

Diary: The best of the rest of the 'Lions' at Cannes.(funny awards )
July 2, 2004... If you weren't bowled over by who won what at Cannes this year, fear not. We've sifted through our low-on-funds memory banks to ponder those more deserving would-be winners who went unnoticed by the judges... The Grand Prix in the...

Diary: CHI party guests sunk by dodgy screen and TBWA's ruthless spirit.
July 2, 2004... The rivalry between Clemmow Hornby Inge and TBWA\London reached fever pitch in Cannes last week. Ever since CHI stole TBWA's One Account brief last year, there has been no love lost between the two shops. So it should not have surprised...

Diary: Solus sends out SOS to beat the England effect.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... With half of the industry watching England play Portugal from Cannes and the rest from the local boozer, there was a danger that a Solus Club dinner planned for the same evening would have just that - one solus diner. Although 70 people...

Diary: You must remember.
July 2, 2004... Congratulations to Rachel Candelaria of Carat who won last week's quiz. The answers were: 1. Coca-Cola; 2. NSPCC; 3. Renault Clio. The theme was Thierry Henry. This week, we want you to identify the ads and the theme. Fax your answers to...

Diary: Pick of the week - TBWA\London/John Smith's.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Jeremy Lee picks TBWA\London's latest ad for John Smith's: 'Managing to maintain the high standard of this campaign is quite an achievement. Peter Kay's brilliant performance proves again why he is the ideal brand spokesman for the 'no...

Diary: Turkey of the week - BBDO New York/Gillette.(Brief Article)
July 2, 2004... Ian Darby is not impressed with BBDO New York's Gillette ad: 'Gillette was unlucky when Beckham became a loser during Euro 2004 but there's no excuse for this lameness. Images of blokes pulling because they've had a nice shave are as...

Carat defends pounds 26m Diageo media.(Brief Article)
July 9, 2004... Diageo, the world's biggest drinks company, is reviewing its pounds 26 million UK media account out of Carat. The company, whose brands range from Guinness to Smirnoff to Pimm's, has instructed the AAR to draw up a shortlist of agencies to...

TV advertising body members squabble over fees and remit.(TAB)(Brief Article)
July 9, 2004... The future of the TV advertising bureau is in doubt after a series of rows among its members over its remit. The body, dubbed TAB, was formed by a conglomerate of commercial TV stations to counter criticism from advertisers that the TV...

Paul Grubb to exit as DFGW debates 'succession'.(Brief Article)
July 9, 2004... DFGW is embarking on a management restructure that will see Paul Grubb leave the agency he helped to found 15 years ago. The future of Michael Finn, the chief executive and co-founder, is unclear. Grubb told Campaign: 'I'll leave in...