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Houston’s Time Runs Out on Fidelity





Houston Herstek chairman Doug Houston, who said the client told him the move was made to consolidate the bulk of its advertising at a single shop. Jack Connors, chief executive officer of Hill, Holliday, would say only that ‘Fidelity is an important part of our business’ and referred questions to Fidelity, where executives did not return phone calls by press time. The move capped off a cataclysmic month-long tailspin which has seen more than $100 million in billings erased from Houston Herstek’s ledger sheet.