Stanley H Katz

Ad Agency Founder Dies at 70: Stanley H. Katz, a founding father of the advertising business who retired in 1991 as vice chairman of Foote Cone & Belding Communications Inc., has died at the age of 70, the company announced yesterday. The company said Katz died suddenly on Tuesday but it did not disclose a cause of death. Katz was one in a trio of legendary ad agency founders that included David Ogilvy and Bill Bernbach.

Stanley H. Katz, 70, a pioneering advertising executive who retired in 1991 as vice chairman of Foote Cone & Belding Communications. Katz was one in a trio of legendary ad agency founders that included David Ogilvy and Bill Bernbach. In 1954, Katz and Lester Leber started the Leber Katz Partners ad agency, whose annual billings rose from less than $1 million to more than $550 million. In June, 1986, the agency merged with Foote Cone & Belding Communications Inc. and became FCB-LKP.

Stanley H. Katz, 70, a pioneering advertising executive who retired in 1991 as vice chairman of Foote Cone & Belding Communications. Katz was one in a trio of legendary ad agency founders that included David Ogilvy and Bill Bernbach. In 1954, Katz and Lester Leber started the Leber Katz Partners ad agency, whose annual billings rose from less than $1 million to more than $550 million. In June, 1986, the agency merged with Foote Cone & Belding Communications Inc. and became FCB-LKP.

Ad Agency Founder Dies at 70: Stanley H. Katz, a founding father of the advertising business who retired in 1991 as vice chairman of Foote Cone & Belding Communications Inc., has died at the age of 70, the company announced yesterday. The company said Katz died suddenly on Tuesday but it did not disclose a cause of death. Katz was one in a trio of legendary ad agency founders that included David Ogilvy and Bill Bernbach.