Lighthouse Communications appoints Matthew Wheeler

It’s been a while since the Diary poked fun at any foreigners, but the press launch of Spontex’s latest UK ad (for rubber gloves, no less) provided too much of an opportunity to miss, hosted as it was by a young lady clad in nothing but a tiny halter-neck dress fashioned from said gloves. Oddly, […]

Lighthouse Communications, the sponsorship agency, has appointed former worldwide managing director of Octagon, Matthew Wheeler, as its chairman.

So, McCann-Erickson has got to the top of the greasy pole at last: number one in the 14th Marketing Week Agency Reputations Survey. In truth, it has always been a strong contender, much to the mystification of more creatively inspired agency folk. But its virtues were often the duller ones – the ones that keep […]