Adweek reports that Gretchen Erwin, co-founder of Erwin-Penland and the agency’s media director, has retired.
Erwin, 50, and her husband, Joe, formed the agency in 1986 after purchasing Penland Advertising in Greenville, S.C. The couple, along with partner Allen Bosworth, turned the one-person shop into an agency that currently employs 145 people and has billings of more than $120 million.
Erwin is married to South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman, Joe Erwin.