{"id":71718,"date":"2024-01-09T23:38:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T23:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/?p=71718"},"modified":"2024-01-09T23:38:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T23:38:41","slug":"bournemouth-advertising-and-marketing-agency-under-new-ownership-after-mbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/bournemouth-advertising-and-marketing-agency-under-new-ownership-after-mbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth advertising and marketing agency under new ownership after MBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bournemouth advertising and marketing agency is under new ownership after a management buyout by its leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>Walker Agency, which counts the national mapping agency Ordnance Survey among its clients, was founded by Martin Walker in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>He remains on the Board as Founder but will take on a more strategic role while Matt Clarke takes over as MD.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has been ranked among the Top 20 agencies outside London by Campaign Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>It says it keeps clients for an average of 11 years, three times longer than other agencies.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"break-words \"><span dir=\"ltr\">Following the MBO, Zennen Thomas becomes Client Director and Paula Barclay Operations Director.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"break-words \"><span dir=\"ltr\">They join the agency\u2019s senior management team of Steve Collins (Finance Director), Robin Upshon (Creative Director) and James Hickman (Strategy Director).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bournemouth advertising and marketing agency is under new ownership after a management buy-out by its leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>Walker Agency, which counts the national mapping agency Ordnance Survey among its clients, was founded by Martin Walker in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>He remains on the Board as Founder but will take on a more strategic role while Matt Clarke takes over as MD.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has been ranked among the Top 20 agencies outside London by Campaign Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>It says it keeps clients for an average of 11 years, three times longer than other agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":71720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71721,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71718\/revisions\/71721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}