Merlin Entertainments has appointed Rule 5 as its retained comms agency for its Sea Life Manchester and Legoland Discovery Centre Manchester venues. The agency has been tasked with promoting two new features at the attractions and deliver a sustained national media relations campaign for both family destinations and support Sea Life Manchester’s conservation programme. Jenn McDonough, general manager Manchester cluster […]
Sarah Hall, the CIPR’s 2018 president, talks about her plans promote diversity in PR, give younger practitioners a voice and establish PR as a strategic management function. What made you decide to run for the CIPR presidency? I’ve volunteered with the CIPR for 18 years in a range of guises, from regional chair through to […]
Citypress has appointed Sam Elmidoro as senior social media manager. Elmidoro will help to deliver campaigns and provide strategic advice to clients across the agency. She joins from Sky, where she was senior social media producer, while she has also worked for b2b titles including PR Week and marketing portal Brand Republic. Ruth Lee, director of social […]
Catch up on the essential news, events and thought leadership you may have missed over the festive period with this end-of-year PR news round-up. Thought leadership Ketchum’s Stephen Waddington gave his top predictions for PR in 2018 in last year’s final Cision webinar. Click here now to see why he believes it will be a breakthrough year for PR. Influencer […]
Here’s our round-up of essential PR news stories and features from the past week, including an interview with National Geographic Food’s Maria Pieri, account wins for Tin Man and b. and new hires at MHP and 8 Outdoor. Opinion Golin‘s Michaela Gray says businesses should act now to prepare their comms strategies for “toxic fallout” from the new […]
Mercieca has appointed Jade McCartney as a senior account manager to its client services team. She joins from Clarion Communications and will work across a number of integrated PR clients. Gemma Oakes, PR Director at Mercieca, said: “Jade is a welcome addition to the Mercieca team as we head into a new year. She will […]
Hotwire has appointed Adele Breen as its first director of corporate strategy, responsible for overseeing the agency’s focus on emerging sectors and delivering specialist analyst relations, crisis comms and executive comms projects. She will join Hotwire’s UK board and will report to UK managing director Matt Cross. Her role will entail working with both existing […]
The Spanish Tourist Office has appointed LOTUS to handle its PR, events and digital campaigns in the UK market following a competitive pitch. The agency has been tasked with raising the profile of Spain’s authenticity, broadly focusing on the themes of cities, culture and gastronomy. The account will be led by associate director Kate McWilliams; […]
Facilities management services provider ABM UK has appointed Seymour PR to design and deliver its Junior Engineering Engagement Programme (J.E.E.P) campaign to change the perception of facilities management and engineering in the UK. Seymour PR will launch the campaign to local, national, broadcast and trade media before releasing a white paper to the industry next year. […]
Maria Pieri, National Geographic Food‘s launch editor, discusses the reasons behind the launch, its content and regular features and what she is looking for from PRs. Why are you launching the magazine? We see a gap in the market – however slim – to bring a rather different type of food magazine to an audience […]