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'''Leslie Butterfield''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}}, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSA}} is a British brand and communications expert.
'''Leslie Butterfield''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRSA}} is a British brand and communications expert.


==Career==
==Career==
===Early career===
===Early career===
Butterfield joined the fledgling advertising agency, [[Boase Massimi Pollitt]] in October 1975 as a trainee Account Planner.<ref name=cm /> He joined start-up agency [[Abbott Mead Vickers]] as Planning Director in April 1980.<ref name=cm />
Butterfield joined the advertising agency, [[Boase Massimi Pollitt]] in October 1975.<ref name=cm /> He joined the agency [[Abbott Mead Vickers]] as Planning Director in April 1980.<ref name=cm />


Butterfield started Butterfield Day DeVito Hockney in March 1987 with three partners. Initially, he was the planning director and later chairman. The company grew to become a Top 20 UK advertising agency by 2002, securing clients such as Honda, BT, The Cooperative Bank, Harley Davidson, the Labour Party, and Mercedes-Benz.<ref>{{cite web |title=Agency provocateurs? |url=https://www.marketingweek.com/agency-provocateurs/ |website=Marketing Week |language=en |date=7 February 2002}}</ref> In 1998, the agency was sold to [[Snyder Communications]], who in turn was acquired by Havas Groupe in 2000. BDDH was ultimately folded into Havas' Euro RSCG network in 2003.<ref>{{cite web |title=BDDH debates future after Havas deal |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/bddh-debates-future-havas-deal/36540 |website=Campaign Magazine}}</ref>
Butterfield started Butterfield Day DeVito Hockney in March 1987 with three partners. Initially, he was the planning director and later chairman. The company grew to become a Top 20 UK advertising agency by 2002.<ref>{{cite web |title=Agency provocateurs? |url=https://www.marketingweek.com/agency-provocateurs/ |website=Marketing Week |language=en |date=7 February 2002}}</ref> In 1998, the agency was sold to [[Snyder Communications]]. <ref>{{cite web |title=BDDH debates future after Havas deal |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/bddh-debates-future-havas-deal/36540 |website=Campaign Magazine}}</ref>


===Political involvement and work===
===Political involvement and work===


Butterfield became involved in work for the [[UK Labour Party]] in 1985, when he was introduced by BMP's CEO, [[Sir Chris Powell]], to Labour's 'Breakfast Group' (chaired by [[Peter Mandelson]]).<ref>{{cite web |title=Politics: The Labour revolution 10 years on |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/politics-labour-revolution-10-years/654334?src_site=marketingmagazine |website=Campaign Magazine}}</ref> For that group, he conducted a major piece of qualitative research (titled 'Society and Self') to evaluate the impact of Margaret Thatcher's policies on voting intentions, and how Labour might respond to this. In his book, 'The Unfinished Revolution', [[Philip Gould]] (later Baron Gould of Brookwood) described this as "the single most influential piece of research ever conducted for Labour".<ref>'The Unfinished Revolution. How the Modernisers saved the Labour Party.'; 1998; Philip Gould; Little, Brown & Co.</ref>
Butterfield became involved in work for the [[UK Labour Party]] in 1985. <ref>{{cite web |title=Politics: The Labour revolution 10 years on |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/politics-labour-revolution-10-years/654334?src_site=marketingmagazine |website=Campaign Magazine}}</ref>He also conducted qualitative research to evaluate the impact of Margaret Thatcher's policies on voting intentions, and how Labour might respond to this. In his book, 'The Unfinished Revolution', [[Philip Gould]] (later Baron Gould of Brookwood) described this as "the single most influential piece of research ever conducted for Labour".<ref>'The Unfinished Revolution. How the Modernisers saved the Labour Party.'; 1998; Philip Gould; Little, Brown & Co.</ref> {{page number|date=April 2024}} Butterfield conducted another piece of research after the 1992 election, concluding that more re-assessment of Labour's offer to the electorate was necessary. He undertook further research and advised on Labour's communications with the voters for each of the following three elections, all won by [[Tony Blair]].<ref>{{cite web |title=CLOSE-UP: NEWSMAKER/LESLIE BUTTERFIELD; Perfectionist planner keeps BT at Butterfield Day |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/close-up-newsmaker-leslie-butterfield-perfectionist-planner-keeps-bt-butterfield-day/20527 |website=Campaign Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Rentoul |first1=John |title=Tony Blair: Prime Minister |date=20 June 2013 |publisher=Faber & Faber |isbn=978-0-571-29987-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xYFKAQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Leslie+Butterfield%22+%22Tony+Blair%22&pg=PP217 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mandelson's role in Labour's communications revealed |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/mandelsons-role-labours-communications-revealed/189549 |website=Campaignlive.co.uk}}</ref>
Butterfield conducted another major piece of research after the 1992 election, concluding that a much more profound re-assessment of Labour's offer to the electorate was necessary. He undertook further research and advised on Labour's communications with the voters for each of the following three elections, all won by [[Tony Blair]].<ref>{{cite web |title=CLOSE-UP: NEWSMAKER/LESLIE BUTTERFIELD; Perfectionist planner keeps BT at Butterfield Day |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/close-up-newsmaker-leslie-butterfield-perfectionist-planner-keeps-bt-butterfield-day/20527 |website=Campaign Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Rentoul |first1=John |title=Tony Blair: Prime Minister |date=20 June 2013 |publisher=Faber & Faber |isbn=978-0-571-29987-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xYFKAQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Leslie+Butterfield%22+%22Tony+Blair%22&pg=PP217 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mandelson's role in Labour's communications revealed |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/mandelsons-role-labours-communications-revealed/189549 |website=Campaignlive.co.uk}}</ref>


===Early Brand Consultancy roles===
===Early Brand Consultancy roles===


Butterfield left BDDH at the beginning of 2001 to pursue a career now increasingly focused on brand and communications consultancy. His first venture, Butterfield8, was a new consultancy concept that included himself plus seven partners from brand-related disciplines.<ref>{{cite web |title=Butterfield fronts new consultancy |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/butterfield-fronts-new-consultancy/17925 |website=Campaign Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Butterfield8 lifts wrappers off revamped youthful TUC |url=https://www.marketingweek.com/butterfield8-lifts-wrappers-off-revamped-youthful-tuc/ |website=Marketing Week |language=en |date=19 July 2001}}</ref> Butterfield8 was sold to The Ingram Partnership in 2003<ref>{{cite web |title=Ingram Partnership buys Butterfield8 to boost strategy |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/ingram-partnership-buys-butterfield8-boost-strategy/191610 |website=Campaign Magazine}}</ref> and Butterfield joined TIP as a partner.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ingram partnership recruits Innocence founder |url=https://www.marketingweek.com/ingram-partnership-recruits-innocence-founder/ |website=Marketing Week |language=en |date=3 June 2004}}</ref> in 2006, Ingram decided to close the business and release all partners from their contracts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tilley and Butterfield launch ventures as Ingram closes |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/tilley-butterfield-launch-ventures-ingram-closes/740638 |website=Campaign Magazine}}</ref>
Butterfield left BDDH at the beginning of 2001 to pursue a career focusing on brand and communications consultancy. His first venture, Butterfield8, was a consultancy company that included himself plus seven partners.<ref>{{cite web |title=Butterfield fronts new consultancy |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/butterfield-fronts-new-consultancy/17925 |website=Campaign Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Butterfield8 lifts wrappers off revamped youthful TUC |url=https://www.marketingweek.com/butterfield8-lifts-wrappers-off-revamped-youthful-tuc/ |website=Marketing Week |language=en |date=19 July 2001}}</ref> Butterfield8 was sold to The Ingram Partnership in 2003<ref>{{cite web |title=Ingram Partnership buys Butterfield8 to boost strategy |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/ingram-partnership-buys-butterfield8-boost-strategy/191610 |website=Campaign Magazine}}</ref> and Butterfield joined TIP as a partner.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ingram partnership recruits Innocence founder |url=https://www.marketingweek.com/ingram-partnership-recruits-innocence-founder/ |website=Marketing Week |language=en |date=3 June 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tilley and Butterfield launch ventures as Ingram closes |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/tilley-butterfield-launch-ventures-ingram-closes/740638 |website=Campaign Magazine}}</ref> Then, Butterfield briefly ran a new consultancy, Butterfield Partners, from 2007 to 2008, before joining Interbrand in November 2008.<ref>{{cite web |title=DoH establishes life stage model for social marketing |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/doh-establishes-life-stage-model-social-marketing/831067 |website=Campaign Magazine|language=en}}</ref> In recognition of his services to the Advertising Industry, Butterfield was made a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the Queen's [[2007 Birthday Honours#Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)|2007 Birthday Honours]] list.<ref>{{cite web |title=Birthday honours: London list |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6757091.stm |publisher=BBC |date=16 June 2007}}</ref>

Butterfield briefly ran a new consultancy, Butterfield Partners, in 2007-8 – working with Alliance & Leicester (Santander), Bupa, the Cabinet Office, and the Liberal Democrats – before joining Interbrand in November 2008.<ref>{{cite web |title=DoH establishes life stage model for social marketing |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/doh-establishes-life-stage-model-social-marketing/831067 |website=Campaign Magazine|language=en}}</ref>

In recognition of his services to the Advertising Industry, Butterfield was made a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the Queen's [[2007 Birthday Honours#Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)|2007 Birthday Honours]] list.<ref>{{cite web |title=Birthday honours: London list |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6757091.stm |publisher=BBC |date=16 June 2007}}</ref>


===Recent career===
===Recent career===
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Butterfield also acted as a Non-exec Director in the recipe box business Mindful Chef from 2015<ref>{{cite web |title='Farm to Fork' Healthy Eating Investment Opportunity |url=https://www.bbpmedia.co.uk/news/health-wellbeing/farm-to-fork-healthy-eating-investment-opportunity.html |website=BBP Media}}</ref> until its majority sale to [[Nestlé]] in 2020. He was also Non-exec Chairman of the research company Join the Dots Ltd. from 2017 until 2019.<ref name=Pn />
Butterfield also acted as a Non-exec Director in the recipe box business Mindful Chef from 2015<ref>{{cite web |title='Farm to Fork' Healthy Eating Investment Opportunity |url=https://www.bbpmedia.co.uk/news/health-wellbeing/farm-to-fork-healthy-eating-investment-opportunity.html |website=BBP Media}}</ref> until its majority sale to [[Nestlé]] in 2020. He was also Non-exec Chairman of the research company Join the Dots Ltd. from 2017 until 2019.<ref name=Pn />


In January 2022, Leslie was invited to become a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Arts]].<ref>{{cite web |title=LESLIE BUTTERFIELD CBE |url=https://www.thersa.org/fellowship/find-a-fellow/profile/171852 |website=RSA}}</ref>
In 2022, Butterfield became a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Arts]].<ref>{{cite web |title=LESLIE BUTTERFIELD CBE |url=https://www.thersa.org/fellowship/find-a-fellow/profile/171852 |website=RSA}}</ref>


==Books==
==Books==
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Leslie Butterfield
NationalityBritish
OccupationAdvertising executive
AwardsCommander of the Order of the British Empire

Leslie Butterfield CBE FRSA is a British brand and communications expert.

Career[edit]

Early career[edit]

Butterfield joined the advertising agency, Boase Massimi Pollitt in October 1975.[1] He joined the agency Abbott Mead Vickers as Planning Director in April 1980.[1]

Butterfield started Butterfield Day DeVito Hockney in March 1987 with three partners. Initially, he was the planning director and later chairman. The company grew to become a Top 20 UK advertising agency by 2002.[2] In 1998, the agency was sold to Snyder Communications. [3]

Political involvement and work[edit]

Butterfield became involved in work for the UK Labour Party in 1985. [4]He also conducted qualitative research to evaluate the impact of Margaret Thatcher's policies on voting intentions, and how Labour might respond to this. In his book, 'The Unfinished Revolution', Philip Gould (later Baron Gould of Brookwood) described this as "the single most influential piece of research ever conducted for Labour".[5] [page needed] Butterfield conducted another piece of research after the 1992 election, concluding that more re-assessment of Labour's offer to the electorate was necessary. He undertook further research and advised on Labour's communications with the voters for each of the following three elections, all won by Tony Blair.[6][7][8]

Early Brand Consultancy roles[edit]

Butterfield left BDDH at the beginning of 2001 to pursue a career focusing on brand and communications consultancy. His first venture, Butterfield8, was a consultancy company that included himself plus seven partners.[9][10] Butterfield8 was sold to The Ingram Partnership in 2003[11] and Butterfield joined TIP as a partner.[12][13] Then, Butterfield briefly ran a new consultancy, Butterfield Partners, from 2007 to 2008, before joining Interbrand in November 2008.[14] In recognition of his services to the Advertising Industry, Butterfield was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours list.[15]

Recent career[edit]

Butterfield joined Interbrand in 2008 as Global Chief Strategy Officer[16][1] and was later promoted to the Executive Leadership team of the company. Based in London from 2008 to 2012, he moved to Shanghai with his family from 2013 to 2015.[17] On returning to the UK in 2015, Butterfield and his partner left their corporate roles to start a new brand consultancy business - Butterfield Harris.[18]

Butterfield also acted as a Non-exec Director in the recipe box business Mindful Chef from 2015[19] until its majority sale to Nestlé in 2020. He was also Non-exec Chairman of the research company Join the Dots Ltd. from 2017 until 2019.[18]

In 2022, Butterfield became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[20]

Books[edit]

  • Excellence in Advertising. The IPA Guide to Best Practice.; First edition 1997. Second Edition 1999; Butterworth Heinemann
  • AdValue. Twenty ways Advertising works for Business.; 2003; Butterworth Heinemann[21][22]
  • Enduring Passion. The Story of the Mercedes-Benz Brand; 2005; Wiley'[23]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Interbrand appoints Butterfield as group chief strategy officer". Campaign Magazine.
  2. ^ "Agency provocateurs?". Marketing Week. 7 February 2002.
  3. ^ "BDDH debates future after Havas deal". Campaign Magazine.
  4. ^ "Politics: The Labour revolution 10 years on". Campaign Magazine.
  5. ^ 'The Unfinished Revolution. How the Modernisers saved the Labour Party.'; 1998; Philip Gould; Little, Brown & Co.
  6. ^ "CLOSE-UP: NEWSMAKER/LESLIE BUTTERFIELD; Perfectionist planner keeps BT at Butterfield Day". Campaign Magazine.
  7. ^ Rentoul, John (20 June 2013). Tony Blair: Prime Minister. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-29987-4.
  8. ^ "Mandelson's role in Labour's communications revealed". Campaignlive.co.uk.
  9. ^ "Butterfield fronts new consultancy". Campaign Magazine.
  10. ^ "Butterfield8 lifts wrappers off revamped youthful TUC". Marketing Week. 19 July 2001.
  11. ^ "Ingram Partnership buys Butterfield8 to boost strategy". Campaign Magazine.
  12. ^ "Ingram partnership recruits Innocence founder". Marketing Week. 3 June 2004.
  13. ^ "Tilley and Butterfield launch ventures as Ingram closes". Campaign Magazine.
  14. ^ "DoH establishes life stage model for social marketing". Campaign Magazine.
  15. ^ "Birthday honours: London list". BBC. 16 June 2007.
  16. ^ "Interbrand recruits Butterfield as strategy chief". Design Week. 7 October 2008.
  17. ^ "Interbrand's global chief strategy officer Leslie Butterfield relocates to China". The Drum.
  18. ^ a b "Join the Dots appoints branding expert as board chair". Prolific North. 27 June 2017.
  19. ^ "'Farm to Fork' Healthy Eating Investment Opportunity". BBP Media.
  20. ^ "LESLIE BUTTERFIELD CBE". RSA.
  21. ^ "Advalue : twenty ways advertising works for business, Leslie Butterfield (editor) : book review". MFSA Journal of Marketing. 10 (1): 60. 1 January 2004. hdl:10520/EJC75273.
  22. ^ "CLOSE-UP: ADVALUE - 20 WAYS ADVERTISING WORKS FOR BUSINESS. A new way of looking at the concept of the brand". Campaign Magazine.
  23. ^ "Mercedes must be magic, not just another car". the Guardian. 15 October 2005.
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