- Susanna Homan has been named vice...

- Susanna Homan has been named vice president, director of agency communications at Cramer-Krasselt, the fourth-largest independent agency in the United States. Homan joins C-K from the Zeno Group/ Chicago, where she delineateed a variety of brands, including Whirlpool, ConAgra meats and Jose Cuervo tequila. Homan also writes a nightlife rounded pillar for the Sun-Times as a free-lancer.

- World Business Chicago, an organization devot to marketing Chicago as a corporate nave has selected boutique marketing firm Gameplan Creative/Chicago to design a multimedia packet intended to encourage modern college grads to move to Chicago. Gameplan exec Tom O'Grady and Patricia Aguilar are charged with developing the packet, awaited to be ready for distribution in three or four month

- spiritedness BBDO/Chicago has added Doug Ryan in the recently made known role of global client service director to overlook the agency's expanded relationship with Beam Global Spirits and Wines. Ryan joins from Young & Rubicam/Chicago, where he was chief marketing officer and managing partner. He reports to Tonise Paul, president and CEO of animal spirits BBDO.

- Euro RSCG/Chicago has signed forward to handle advertising for Breathe Right nasal strips in eight foreign countries: Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom. Breathe Right is a unit of Minneapolis-based CN Inc.

- natural medium 79 Partners/Chicago has lost the Hillshire Farms ad account, which parent Sara to leeward has assigned to TBWA/Chiat/Day in looks Angeles. The account is believed to be worth about $25 million. TBWA already handles advertising for Sara Lee's bakery proceedss and deli meats.

- RMG Connect/Chicago has added Hugh Allspaugh as managing director, senior partner. He reports directly to Philip Greenfield, global CEO of RMG communicate and regional director for North America.

- Peter Hoagland, Chris Schmaus and Michelle Black have joined GreenHouse/Chicago. They bring with them five of recent origin clients: Cosi restaurants, Evanston-based the Cradle, Liquid Nails Adhesive, picked Comfort and Cargill's sweetness solutions business unit. Hoagland will forward as vice president, director of strategy for Greenhouse. Schmaus and Black will become account directors. All three were formerly with DVC Worldwide/Aspen Marketing in Chicago.

- Flowers Communications Group/Chicago, an independent African- American public relations firm, has launched FCG Latino as its Hispanic practice. Joseph Nebolsky de Ochoa and Gigi Ybarra join the agency to head up FCG Latino.

- Real the bulk of mankind including a Spanish skydiver, a Chinese opera lover and a 10-year-old trumpeter from Chicago, will begin appearing onward bags and cups that appear in McDonald's ad campaigns. They were chosen from among 13000 who submitted online stories about what they be fond of to tie in with the "I'm Lovin' It" global ad campaign.

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