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Diary: Diary's crystal ball predictions for the year ahead.(DDB to launch a full-sevice agency, Clemmow Hornby Inge acquired by Carphone Warehouse Group PLC, Sir Martin Sorrel moves Jim Kelly into JWT Group Inc.)
Pitches
With British Airways and Bartle Bogle Hegarty at loggerheads, M&C Saatchi's Moray MacLennan is frequently spotted lurking around the client's offices.
HSBC surprises nobody by calling a pitch for its entire account.
As Lord Brown retires in February, his close friendship with Sir Martin Sorrell no longer binds BP to WPP and the account goes up for pitch.
Staff changes
Sir Martin Sorrell moves Jim Kelly into JWT to try to ease some of the agency's woes. The former Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R man also takes a night job at Grey.
Following another successful year with RKCR/Y&R, James Murphy launches a start-up and poaches the entire RKCR/Y&R senior management team, and all of its planners, creatives and account handlers.
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