Lanyon Phillips & Partners has picked up both momentum and several pieces of new business since president and creative director Peter Lanyon moved back to the agency’s Vancouver office full time earlier this year.

The agency has recently added four new clients to its roster: WestJet independent regional airline; the b.c. business of Rogers Cablesystems; North Shore Credit Union, which has 10 locations in b.c.; and The Superior Group, a high-speed printing and reproduction company operating in Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver.

The agency is also getting more work from existing clients.

For example, it will handle national advertising for Vancouver’s Boston Pizza as it expands from its current 98 outlets in Western Canada and two in Northern Ontario. (The pizza chain is planning a further 20 to 25 restaurants in Ontario over the next couple of years.)

In addition, an innovative campaign for BC Hot House, a co-operative of greenhouse vegetable growers, which ran in Seattle, Wash. this spring, will be rolling out to other areas in the u.s.

Lanyon says the first order of business on returning to Vancouver was to reorganize and re-energize the agency.

He had left Lanyon Phillips to move to Toronto-based MacLaren:Lintas (now MacLaren McCann) as president and ceo, but after three months, during which he restructured the creative department and solidified the Molson business, he decided he was no longer suited to life at a big agency and resigned.

Lanyon worked on various advertising and songwriting projects before teaming up once again with partner Chuck Phillips, the agency’s managing director and ceo.

When Lanyon returned to the Vancouver shop, Simon Cameron, copywriter and Tim Kelly, art director, were also brought in as partners.