Toyota: Xmas Pink Slips Are Saatchi's Call

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LOS ANGELES A representative for Toyota Motors said today that the departure of five creatives at Publicis Groupe’s Saatchi & Saatchi is “the agency’s business,” and did not come at the automaker’s direction.

Sources said the five creative directors laid off Wednesday [Adweek Online, Dec. 15] were: Steve Landrum (who joined in 1998) and Miles Turpin (who came from Lexus agency Team One), co-creative directors on Toyota Camry, Corolla, Avalon and Solara campaigns [Adweek, April 19]; Brett Ridgeway and Matt Bogen, creative directors who teamed on minivans and did recent work on the RAV4 [Adweek Online, Jan.

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