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Bates Dorland and Tim Ashton, the agency’s deposed creative

director, are edging towards a financial settlement as Ashton’s

departure (Campaign, last week) continues to unsettle the creative

department. Martha Riley, an art director hired by Ashton from M&C

Saatchi ten months ago, resigned this week, fuelling speculation that

others may follow. Graham Hinton, Dorlands’ chairman, insisted: ’Lawyers

are still in discussion but we will honour the terms of Tim’s

agreement.’ He added: ’There was unrest before Tim left and I’m sure his

departure will destabilise some people and make them restless. But I

hope we don’t lose people because they’re a terrific bunch’.

A dispute over control of the joint holding company to be set up if True

North, the FCB parent company, acquires the Bozell network, is delaying

a deal between the two sides. Industry sources say Chuck Peebler, the

Bozell president, is reluctant to share power with Bruce Mason, his True

North counterpart. However, a deal is expected to be concluded in the

next few weeks.

Granada confirmed on Wednesday that it has agreed an offer for Yorkshire

Tyne Tees Television which values YTT at pounds 711 million. Ward

Thomas, the chairman of YTT, has been invited to be chairman of the

merged TV operation.

New PHD is to give the Ben and Jerry’s premium ice-cream brand its first

conventional advertising outing in the UK after being appointed to

handle the account this week. A radio campaign, created in-house in

conjunction with Beer Davies, will break shortly. Separately, beeb, the

BBC’s new Internet service, has awarded New PHD its pounds 4 to pounds 6

million media buying account. Michaelides and Bednash won the strategic

planning task last month.

Tony Kenyon, the chief executive of the Negotiation Centre, is to take

control of the BT account, following the surprise departure this week of

the account head, Nigel Allmond. Kenyon said the move would be short

term, but added he had no plans to appoint an external replacement for

Allmond, who will go on gardening leave until the end of this year.

OgilvyOne Worldwide, the reconfiguration of Ogilvy and Mather Direct

Worldwide, has launched in Hong Kong. The remainder of O&M Direct’s

existing shops will have rebranded by 1 July.

Bo Ronnberg, chairman of this week’s Cannes International Advertising

Festival jury, is launching an Amsterdam hotshop called

AD’AM-JBR/Ronnberg/hasan. Ronnberg, president of Ronnberg McCann in

Sweden, is forming the creative-only agency in conjunction with Norway’s

JBR/McCann and Finland’s hasan and partners and aims to attract clients

from all over Europe.

Emap Radio’s new in-house sales operation is to be called Emap On Air.

The operation will sell Emap’s radio interests - including Kiss 100 FM

and Magic - and its TV channel, the Box. Tom Toumazis, managing director

of Emap On Air, is expected to announce the names of two of the five

board directors this week.

Wieden and Kennedy Amsterdam has ended its long search for a joint

creative director to partner Jon Matthews, with a hiring from its office

in Portland, Oregon. Matthews, from the UK, will pair up with John

Boiler, a senior art director who has worked on most of the agency’s big

accounts, including Miller and Coca-Cola. The team’s role will be

reinforced by the promotion of the senior Amsterdam-based creative duo,

Glenn Cole and Robert Nakata, who become joint associate creative

directors.

Bob Caldow, one of the founders of BCLO in Bristol, died on Sunday 22

June after a long battle with cancer. He was 49. Caldow had worked in

advertising for 20 years. He began his career at Nicklin Advertising in

the mid-70s, launched Nicklin Bath in 1984 and moved to Brunnings

Reading in 1992 as managing director. His funeral is being held at 1pm

on Friday 27 June at Semington Crematorium, Melksham, Wiltshire, with

flowers through Fords of Corsham on 01249-71 3319.

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