NOT SO NEW KID ON THE BLOCK - ARCHER, CHICK AND TAYLOR LAUNCH SPRING PARTNERSHIPS CONSULTANCY.

Stephen Archer (the 'Archer' in Archer Young) launched Spring with Gareth Chick and Samantha Taylor in 2003. High-level marketing and communications business focussing on strategic growth, change programmes, sales & marketing strategies. Key clients include Amersham plc, Vivendi, Quaker Foods and Dixons.

The team's specialist industry sectors are automotive (Archer and Taylor both previously worked extensively with the Volkswagen Group), pharmaceutical, lifesciences, FMCG and IT.

Stephen Archer : "crucially, we excel where most other consultancies finish - we design and implement initiatives, but we also manage the implementation into the client's mainstream function to ensure that initiatives are properly owned and seen through".