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Saatchi Taps Hayden for General Mills, Awaits Burns’ Reply

NEW YORK Publicis’ Saatchi & Saatchi last week hired Ann Hayden, 51, an ecd at WPP’s Young & Rubicam, New York, to be creative director worldwide on its estimated $550 million General Mills account. The hire fills the void left by co-ecds worldwide Ron Arnold and Mark Cacciatore, two of the 17 staffers who walked out on Feb. 14. Meanwhile, Mike Burns, the former worldwide account director on General Mills, has yet to respond to a Saatchi lawsuit that accuses him of instigating the exodus.

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