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Account loss leads to ousters at JWT: Ad agency chief says Chicago office to stay.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)

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Byline: Jim Kirk

Jun. 1--Just weeks after JWT Chicago's devastating loss of much of its Kraft Foods Inc. advertising business, and rumors that the ad agency might close, JWT Worldwide Chairman and Chief Executive Bob Jeffrey flew in from New York this week to reassure staffers that the Chicago office would remain open and then promptly relieved the top two agency executives of their duties.

Ros King, a longtime manager on the Kraft business for JWT who has led the Chicago office since 2005, is returning to London to refocus her attention on the international Kraft business for JWT. Her top deputy, Graham Woodall, executive creative director, is leaving the…

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