he negotiated the acquisition of UK marketing group Engine, parent to WCRS and other agencies, and is now its chairman. Last full revision 17th November 2017 * Archive page for historical reference

Engine and injected into it various other US assets including creative agency Trailer Park Studios.) One of the various businesses acquired by Haggin was a small digital agency called SolutionSet. All

sales were UK-based sponsorship agency Karen Earl to Engine Group; and digital adserving agency TangoZebra to DoubleClick. The group agreed to sell The Coutts Group to rival instore agency Bezier. Issuing

a separate UK subsidiary making engines and gearboxes, as well as an additional €106m in cash. Yet the business continued to sit on a financial knife-edge. Towards the end of 2001, facing the prospect

Following Ingram's example, British agency WCRS bought up The Media Department in 1988 and established it as the UK arm of French independent media shop Carat. The same year, Saatchi & Saatchi spun off

Henry and Chaldecott a highly admired creative team at WCRS. Silent partner Robin Price became the new agency's financial director. HHCL was formed with a clear mission to shake up the advertising landscape

Social media unit Jam was promptly sold to Engine Group, and just two days after the appointment of administrators, all i-level's remaining staff were made redundant, its clients were transferred to other

Varley was, as chairman, to be the main engine of CP&V's dramatic growth over the following two decades, playing a leading role in the drive to rebuild Britain's export industry in its traditional pre-

Stephen Woodford was recruited from WCRS/Engine in the summer of 2006 to fill Hammersley's empty chair, but was unable to take up that role until the beginning of 2007 for contractual reasons. He was

now part of Engine Group). However the first few months as part of Snyder were uncomfortable. The agency suffered a series of resignations by key creatives and managers in 1999 and 2000, as well as the