Creative Team Bolts Holt, Hughes: Maine Shop Appoints New CD, Opens a West Coast Outpost

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Holt, Hughes & Stamell in Portland, Maine, named a new creative director and announced the opening of a West Coast office to service recent client additions, including Calavo Foods of Irvine, Calif.
Copywriter Chris Kast, a four-year agency employee who replaced departed partner John Holt as creative director just four months ago, has left Holt, Hughes with art director Mark Nestor to form Crank, a “humor-oriented” creative boutique in Portland. Bob Perkins succeeds Kast as creative director.
“The tone of the agency changed since [Holt] left,” Kast said.

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