Williams Murray Hamm

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Williams Murray Hamm (WMH)
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryBrand Innovation, Design and Strategy Agency
Founded1997
Headquarters
London, UK: 10 Dallington Street, London, EC1V 0DB
Key people
WMH ltd.
Richard Williams, Chairman & Founder;
Garrick Hamm, Creative Partner;
Wybe Magermans, 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

Williams Murray Hamm (WMH) is a brand innovation, design and strategy agency based in London. It specialises in inventing or reinventing brands.

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History

Founded in 1997, [1] Williams Murray Hamm was acquired in 2006 by Loewy Group, a business that was subsequently acquired by Writtle Holdings in 2011. [2] Chairman & Founder, Richard Williams and Creative Partner, Garrick Hamm both remain on the board of directors. [3] Founding Partner, Richard Murray died in 2010. [4] Wybe Magermans [5] was appointed to the board in 2016 and became the agency's Managing Director in 2019.

Work and accolades

WMH's work in Fast-moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) packaging for GSK's Horlicks, [6] Hovis, [7] McVitie's Jaffa Cakes [8] and Sainsbury's SO organics [9] [10] and Sainsbury's Basics [11] [12] led to the business being named Design Agency of the Year by Marketing Magazine in 2002 and 2004. [13]

WMH has won DBA Design Effectiveness Awards for its work on Here Organics, Sainsbury's SO organic, [14] [15] Wild Brew (which also won a D&AD yellow pencil), [16] [17] while Hovis and Clipper Teas won the DBA Design Effectiveness Grand Prix in 2002 and 2004 respectively. [18] [19]

Notable WMH clients have included 2003's redesign of the Barclays Bank identity, [20] 2004's relaunch for Fortnum & Mason, [21] via a brand book and repackaging exercise. The company has maintained an eight-year relationship with Syngenta, the Swiss agrochemicals business. [22] Other WMH clients include Beazley, [23] Brummells of London, [24] Way to Blue [25] and Jamie Oliver's store Recipease venture, [26] Burger delivery start-up Chosen Bun, [27] Magic Me, [28] JuiceBurst (Purity Soft Drinks), [29] Syngenta, [30] charity Ella's Home, [31] and globally for Carlsberg [32] and Castrol. [33]

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), brand positioning and identity redesign for USA based food producer Lamb Weston; [34] and brand world creation for Pernod Ricard's leading boutique single malt whisky, Aberlour.

In 2015, the agency was awarded the top prize at The Drum's inaugural Dream Awards [35] and gold at the Fresh Awards [36] for its packaging design for UK erotica brand Coco de Mer. [37] Additionally, WMH won gold in the body category at the celebrated Pentawards [38] for its work with beauty brand Prismologie. [39]

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). [40] The award-winning continued for its brand identity and packaging work for Coco de Mer winning the coveted D&AD Yellow Pencil Award, [41] the Drum Design Award, [42] Design Week Award (Package Design Category) [43] and Creative Review Annual where it was awarded 'Best in Book: Design'. [44]

In 2017, WMH started a new division that specialises in implementing large packaging roll-out and major cross-media campaigns. WMHAdaptive works for clients such as Waitrose, Castrol and Network Rail.

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