WMH&I |
Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Brand Innovation, Design and Strategy Agency |
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Founded | 1997 |
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Headquarters | |
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Key people | WMH&I Richard Williams, Chairman & Founder; Garrick Hamm, Creative Partner; Carol Lavender, Managing Director; |
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Services | Innovation: Brand creation, growth business platforms, products and services, positioning, brand behaviour and services development. Strategy: Positioning, brand behaviour, portfolio architecture, communication strategy. Creative: Packaging, identity, naming, comms, in store activation, digital content and film. Activation: Packaging roll outs, campaign activation, retouching, artwork, photography |
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Number of employees | 30 |
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Parent | Writtle Holdings |
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Website | wmhagency.com |
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WMH&I (formerly Williams Murray Hamm) is a brand innovation, design and strategy agency based in London.
History
Williams Murray Hamm (WMH) was founded in 1997 by Richard Williams and Richard Murray.[1] Garrick Hamm joined the firm a year later.[2]
WMH was acquired in 2006 by Loewy Group, a business that was itself acquired by Writtle Holdings in 2011.[3][4]
Richard Murray died in 2010.[5] Wybe Magermans was appointed to the board in 2016 and became the agency's Managing Director in 2019.[6]
In 2021, WMH merged with Identica, another design and branding agency, to form WMH&I.[7] Carol Lavender was named Managing Director and Magermans became the Growth & Development Director.[7]
Work and accolades
WMH's work in Fast-moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) packaging for GSK's Horlicks,[8] Hovis,[9] McVitie's Jaffa Cakes[10] and Sainsbury's SO organics[11][12] and Sainsbury's Basics[13][14] led to the business being named Design Agency of the Year by Marketing Magazine in 2002 and 2004.[15]
WMH has won DBA Design Effectiveness Awards for its work on Here Organics, Sainsbury's SO organic,[16][17] Wild Brew (which also won a D&AD yellow pencil),[18][19] while Hovis and Clipper Teas won the DBA Design Effectiveness Grand Prix in 2002 and 2004 respectively.[20][21]
Other work includes 2003's redesign of the Barclays Bank identity,[22] 2004's relaunch for Fortnum & Mason,[23] via a brand book and repackaging exercise. The company has maintained an eight-year relationship with Syngenta, the Swiss agrochemicals business.[24] Other WMH clients include Beazley,[25] Way to Blue[26] and Jamie Oliver's store Recipease venture,[27] Burger delivery start-up Chosen Bun,[28] Magic Me,[29] JuiceBurst (Purity Soft Drinks),[30] Syngenta,[31] charity Ella's Home,[32].
More recent work includes the launch of Waitrose & Partners Free From range of foods, creation of completely new container shipping company, Ocean Network Express (ONE), and USA-based food producer Lamb Weston.[33]
In 2015, the agency was awarded the top prize at The Drum's inaugural Dream Awards[34] and gold at the Fresh Awards[35] for its packaging design for UK erotica brand Coco de Mer.[36] Additionally, WMH won gold in the body category at the celebrated Pentawards[37] for its work with beauty brand Prismologie.[38]
2016 saw WMH's return to win gold at the Design Effectiveness Awards (Design Business Association) for their interactive brand design work with JuiceBurst (Purity Soft Drinks).[39] The award-winning continued for its brand identity and packaging work for Coco de Mer winning the coveted D&AD Yellow Pencil Award,[40] the Drum Design Award,[41] Design Week Award (Package Design Category)[42] and Creative Review Annual where it was awarded 'Best in Book: Design'.[43]
Publications
- WMH updated The Little Book of Don'ts in Brand Design in 2004
- Richard Murray wrote Churnmore A True Taste of Brand Management in 2007
- The three partners delivered Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, a celebration of the company's ten years in business in 2009
- To celebrate its 20th anniversary, WMH published Blood, Sweat & Ideas. A retrospective of the agency's work over the past two decades.
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