Direct Line established high levels of recall among consumers. In September 2014, the brand worked with Saatchi and Saatchi to relaunch its advertising, using Hollywood actor Harvey Keitel as Winston Wolfe, a Mafia style 'fixer'. The company had one million customers after eight years. The company expanded with a series of new offshoots in the 1990s. In 1995, a Spanish offshoot, Linea Direct, started offering motor insurance in Spain. They expanded into travel insurance in 1996, pet insurance in 1997, and Direct Line Breakdown started offering breakdown insurance in 1998. Their non general insurance products umbrella Direct Line Financial services launched their
Ben Winston attention for not being creatively different enough to warrant being anything other than a direct copy rather than inspired. This has since become an industry example of a larger production house being challenged about plagiarism by a significantly smaller one, and receiving widespread coverage and support as a result. Ben Winston is the son of Robert Winston and Lira Helen Feigenbaum. He is of Jewish origin. He is married to Meredith Winston and they have a daughter Ruby Winston. Ruby’s godfather is singer and actor Harry Styles. Ben Winston Ben Winston is a British producer and director, who established the