Prior to the merger of Lowe & Partners and Ammirati Puris Lintas, McNally headed the Burger King account at Ammirati.

The agency said her position will be absorbed into a new management structure reporting to Rob Quish, president of Lowe Lintas, New York. McNally said she has a number of interesting job options, but has not decided where she is headed.

In 1998, Burger King spent $404.5 million on advertising in the US, according to Competitive Media Reporting.

Separately, Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust hired Messner Vetere Berger McNamee Schmetterer, a unit of Havas Advertising's Euro RSCG Worldwide, to handle creative duties on its $75 million national advertising account for the Subway chain of sandwich shops. The account was previously handled by Publicis & Hai Riney. Land Rover, a unit of Germany's Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, tapped Omnicom Group's GSD&M to handle its $35 million advertising account, work that previously was handled by Grace and Rothschild.

-- The Asian Wall Street Journal