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By Glen Fest
DALLAS–After nearly five years under the umbrella of local agency Larkin, Meeder & Schweidel, both Susan Knape and Ted Ingersoll are ready to get wet again.
The principals of two LM&S operating units are teaming to create a full-service Dallas agency called Knape. The new shop will be owned by, but run independently of, Kansas City, Mo., agency Valentine Radford, which has been seeking a Dallas affiliation for a year, according to VR chairman Chuck Curtis.
The venture, slated to open June 1, will be initially operated with eight staffers that comprised the Knape Group and the Ingersoll Group units of LM&S.
‘We really want to be a superstar, national agency on a creative basis,’ said Susan Knape, 43, a 1995 Adweek Creative All-Star and former owner of a freestanding agency nearly done in by the early ’90s industry slump.
Ingersoll, 57, will be jumping back into the account service fray after...
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