Morsels for Y&R and Warwick By Cathy Taylo

NEW YORK--American Home Foods Products has put more food on the tables of Young & Rubicam and Warwick Baker & Fiore in an agency consolidation.

The reassignments take Laurence, Charles, Free & Lawson/ N.Y. off the AHFP roster. LCF&L officials could not be reached.
Y&R picks up the Chef Boyardee Pizza Mix and Packaged Dinners brands and Dennison’s Chili. WB&F gains the Maypo and Wheatena hot cereal brands in addition to Crunch ‘n Munch, Polaner jams and jellies and Ro*tel tomatoes and green chilies. The Polaner brands and Ro*tel became part of the AHFP stable by way of acquisition earlier this year and were not at LCF&L.
LNA estimates the entire AHFP budget for 1992 at $26 million, but spending on many of the reassigned brands is minimal.
For Warwick, the assignments are a payoff for its 1992 acquisition of Isidore & Paulson/N.Y., which long handled AHFP business. For Y&R, which has taken several hits over the last few years from American Home Products’ Whitehall Laboratories division, the shift represents its first wins of American Home brands in some time.
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