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Following a two-year struggle against breast cancer, Julie Bedwell,

Procter & Gamble’s senior production manager for health and beauty care

Europe, has died.

Bedwell, 55, had worked for the company for seven years and was a

well-known figure among the advertising agencies with which she worked,

such as Leo Burnett and Grey Advertising.

She began her career in advertising in 1962 and had worked as a senior

producer at Ogilvy & Mather Toronto, and also spent time with Leo

Burnett Hong Kong as head of television production and at Grey London as

senior producer.

Her immediate boss at Procter & Gamble, Mike Phillipson, described

Bedwell as an ’expert mother’ in her ability to ’nurture and enhance the

production area’ and the ’deep caring’ she had for people around

her.

’She was much loved and respected, but a tough negotiator too,’ said one

former colleague.

Bedwell leaves a husband and three children. A memorial gathering is

planned.