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King’s Arms staffs up following trio of wins

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

February 15, 2007 | 2 min read

The King’s Arms - the start-up agency created by two former BDH\\TBWA creatives Paul Watson and Lynton Hemsley - has hired Amy Howells as an account executive from CheethamBell JWT.

The hiring - the agency’s first - marks a series of high profile project wins for the fledgling agency.

It has recently created a series of virals for Manchester-based clothing brand Ringspun and created the first TV campaign, with Wigwam, for Blackpool Airport since the airport achieved international status.

Speaking of the hiring and the agency’s expansion, Watson told The Drum; “I’d harboured a desire to do my own thing for a while and when we left BDH it wasn’t the same place as we’d both joined.

We’ve been busy working non-stop since we set up Just as we were thinking of moving out of Love, I got talking to Chief and they were looking to move to a bigger space.”

Hemsley had been at BDH for 15 years, while Watson had been there for four. They became a team in 2003.

The agency was set up in late summer last year, renting space from Love Creative, but moved out to share offices with Chief Productions before Christmas.

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