Crispin In Candy Chase

A week after awarding its media planning and buying account, Chupa Chups USA has cut the shops in its creative review from 16 to six.
Sources said the review’s survivors are incumbent Lois/EJL, Chicago; Crispin Porter & Bogusky, Miami; The Richards Group, Dallas; GSD&M, Austin, Texas; and New York’s Fallon McElligott and Weiss Stagliano Partners. They are scheduled to make creative presentations the second week of December, with a decision expected shortly thereafter.
Greg McCormick, vice president and general manager of Chupa Chups USA in Atlanta, did not return calls concerning the review.
Among those cut from contention were Match, Atlanta; Ground Zero, Santa Monica, Calif.;