Schweitzer Retires as JWT Chairman

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NEW YORK Peter Schweitzer, chairman of J. Walter Thompson, said that he would retire from the agency, effective Jan. 1.

Schweitzer, 65, began his career at JWT in New York in 1975, and the following year led the team that won the Burger King business and was named the account’s management director. In 1979, Schweitzer joined Burger King as executive vice president and director of marketing and strategic corporate planning in Miami. He returned to JWT New York in 1982 as worldwide management director of the Eastman Kodak account.

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