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Publicis’ Leo Burnett has hired Paul Shearer and Jim Thornton as co-executive creative directors in its London office, the agency said last week. A start date has yet to be determined. Thornton, 40, will join the shop from Mother in London, where he is creative director. Shearer, 36, is a creative director at Wieden + Kennedy in Amsterdam. They replace Nick Bell, who left Burnett in February to take a similar post at WPP’s J.

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