Vick Named President of Landor Associates

Edward H. Vick has been named president and chief executive of San Francisco-based corporate identity firm Landor Associates.

Vick was most recently chief executive of the New York agency Levine Huntley Vick & Beaver--which closed suddenly last year after losing key client Subaru.

Vick, 47, will assume the new role in February, while current President Don Casey assumes the title of chairman. The firm’s founder, Walter Landor, takes the new post of founder chairman.

“Landor is more creatively driven than many advertising agencies,” said Vick, who is also former president of the New York agency

A number of advertising executives who have lost their jobs over the past two years have not found employment at other agencies. That is in part because the industry layoffs are not temporary, but represent a restructuring of an industry that will employ fewer workers.

Landor, which employs about 400, is a wholly owned division of the New York agency Young & Rubicam. With his appointment, Vick will also become a board member of Y&R.;