WMH&I

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WMH&I
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryBrand Innovation, Design and Strategy Agency
Founded1997
Headquarters
London, UK: 10 Dallington Street, London, EC1V 0DB
Key people
WMH&I
Richard Williams, Chairman & Founder;
Garrick Hamm, Creative Partner;
Carol Lavender, Managing Director;
ServicesInnovation: 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
Number of employees
30
Parent Writtle Holdings
Website wmhagency.com

WMH&I (formerly Williams Murray Hamm) is a brand innovation, design and strategy agency based in London.

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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]

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