BDH co-founder dies, leaving creative legacy
Ken Bowden, the co-founder of Bowden Dyble and Hayes (BDH), has died aged 85.
He launched the agency in 1964, along with colleagues Mike Dyble, Geoff Hayes and Win Offland, after leaving Osborne Peacock – Manchester’s largest advertising agency of the era.
Without taking any clients with them, the quartet grew BDH into one of the most widely respected advertising agencies in the country and helped establish clients such as Solvite and Spirograph as leading brands.
Martin Anderson, who recently stepped down as chairman of BDH\\TBWA to become a consultant to the agency, said of Ken: “He set high standards for BDH creative thinking and gained us the reputation and creative profile that we have managed to maintain over the years.
“The few people in the agency today that worked with Ken will remember him as a huge personality, a brilliant boss and great fun to work with.”
Anderson and Dyble pay tribute to Bowden on page 16