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Former APL Chief Executive Points Finger at Puris and Geier
NEW YORK–Rick Hadala, in a $340 million breach of contract and defamation suit against his former employer, claims that Ammirati Puris Lintas was “in much worse shape” than had been described to him before he took over as North American CEO last September.
Specifically, the suit claims that IPG chief Phil Geier and APL worldwide CEO Martin Puris “failed to disclose” several problems, including:
“Poor relations with General Motors and Unilever (two key accounts).”
“Strained relations between APL (and particularly Mr.
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