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Burt Manning has resigned, effective today, as chairman and chief executive of J. Walter Thompson U.S.A., one of the nation’s leading advertising agencies.
Manning, 55, will be succeeded in those two posts by Bert Metter, 59, who had been vice chairman. Manning had also resigned as vice chairman of J. Walter Thompson Co., parent of the domestic agency, and as a director of JWT Group Inc., the holding company.
A statement from the New York-based agency said Manning, a 20-year-veteran of the firm, felt “the need for change and a new challenge.”
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