D'Arcy L.A. to Gain 2

D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles’ Los Angeles office is poised to picked up at least two accounts in the wake of the decision to shut the agency’s St. Louis office.

M&M/Mars’ Whiskas cat food and Uncle Ben’s Rice, which had been handled by the St. Louis shop, are ex pected to shift to D’Arcy Los Angeles along with an untold number of staff members, sources said. The shift would add about $25 million in bill ings to the Los Angeles shop: about $10 million from Whiskas and $15 million from Uncle Ben’s.

Neither the client nor a representative from D’Arcy Los Angeles was available at press time.

Meanwhile, D’Arcy’s headquarters in New York is expected to pick up two of the client’s candy brands: Skittles, for which the client spent about $20 million on ads last year, according to CMR, and Combos, for which spending figures were not available.

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