Creative Shuffle Expected at O&M

Rice’s Exit a Start; New York Is Said to Be Directing the Changes
CHICAGO–The departure of co-deputy creative director Nancy Rice from Ogilvy & Mather’s office here may be the beginning of a larger reorganization of the agency’s creative department, sources said.
While agency officials have acknowledged that Tom Hall, the shop’s chairman and chief executive, is crafting a succession plan for his eventual retirement [Adweek, Sept. 27], other sources said an overhaul of the shop is being driven out of O&M’s New York headquarters.