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Manor Bakeries is reviewing the pounds 3 million creative account for Mr Kipling, currently held by Saatchi & Saatchi.
The agency was responsible for the Christmas campaign showing a woman giving birth at a nativity play. The ad provoked 570 complaints to the Independent Television Commission, leading Manor Bakeries to take it off air.
The review is being handled by Agency Insight, which is putting together a longlist of agencies to pitch for the brief. Manor Bakeries is owned by RHM, which has a roster of agencies including DDB London, Bartle Bogle Hegarty and TBWA\London.
Saatchis has held the Mr Kipling account since 2000. It handled the brand's return to TV advertising, retaining the 'exceedingly good cakes' line made famous in the 70s in a campaign created by J. Walter Thompson. This saw the brand's first major image revamp since its launch in 1967 and the reinvention of Mr Kipling as the 'man who made cakes so good you'd forgive him for ...