Wieden + Kennedy Names 2 Partners

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LONDON Wieden + Kennedy named executive creative directors Tony Davidson and Kim Papworth — the creative talent behind campaigns like Honda’s “Cog” — partners in the agency, the first employees to be given a stake in the shop in 13 years.
 
It’s also the first time the 27-year-old company has gone outside its Portland, Ore., headquarters in appointing partners. Wieden now has seven partners. The London-based duo join co-founder Dan Wieden, COO Dave Luhr, ecd Susan Hoffman, Wieden Entertainment president Bill Davenport and co-ecd John Jay — the last to be appointed a partner in 1996 — in agency ownership.
 
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