Deliveroo, the on-demand delivery service for restaurant meals, has appointed Havas PR UK as its retained consumer PR agency. The agency’s remit includes national and regional PR support for the Deliveroo brand, which now has a presence in more than 70 cities across the UK after launching in London in 2013. Havas will report to Kate Thomas, […]
Gorkana has a few final places available for Thursday’s (October 20) exclusive breakfast briefing with Emma Bower, editor of Haymarket titles GP and Medeconomics. More than 50 years old, GP is a major online UK B2B healthcare title and aims to be “essential reading for all UK-based family doctors”. Sister title Medeconomics is a subscription site […]
LEGOLAND Windsor Resort, the children’s theme park aimed solely at families with children aged 2 to 12, has brought in Clarion Communications as its consumer PR agency. Clarion has been briefed to promote LEGOLAND’s plans for 2017, which includes the opening of a new Castle-themed family hotel, opening at the LEGOLAND Windsor Resort on July […]
Bedroom furniture retailer Feather & Black has appointed Porta Communications sister agencies Publicasity and Thirteen Communications to handle its consumer, trade and corporate PR, following a competitive pitch. Previously known as the Iron Bed Company, the business re-branded to Feather & Black in 2004 and has been led by MD Daniel Wade since March 2013. […]
Houston PR has hired Kate Hoare as an account director in its London office as it develops its capital markets communications offer. Hoare joins the agency from a client director role at Hudson Sandler, where she advised listed businesses, with a particular focus on leisure, retail, consumer and the industrial goods sector. Hoare said: “The team […]
For a pro bono campaign project, Frame PR capitalised on a visit that George Clooney made to a shop run by, and for, homeless people. The visit resulted in a 20% increase in sales and an upturn in donations that would provide homeless people with free meals on Christmas Day and for the rest of 2016. Campaign […]
Porta Communications, the international communications group, has announced a series of changes to its board and management team, including the appointment of Steffan Williams as CEO. Williams, PRCA chairman and former group managing director, is now CEO at Porta; David Wright, previously chief executive, is now executive chairman; Bob Morton has stepped down from the board […]
New luxury charter jet company Volanteus has handed a full marketing brief to PMW Communications, which will include PR activity. Volanteus provides charter jet services that it claims are entirely bespoke and personalised to each client, including access todestinations and journeys that “rival charter companies are unable to offer”. PMW Communications’ remit will include a […]
Marketing comms agency Cogent Elliott has hired Bruce Hutton as group chief executive and Francis Maude as non-executive chairman. Hutton replaces Mike Phillipson, who recently left the agency after more than four years as chief executive. Hutton spent the last three years on several food-based ventures, including his own brewing company. Prior to that he held […]
Murray Chalmers PR has won PR briefs for the Beautycon Festival London, Big Apple Brixton and the BRITs Icon Awards. The agency has also retained its PR brief for the NME Awards for 2017. Beautycon Festival London will return to Kensington Olympia on December 3 2016, offering visitors the opportunity to meet their favourite YouTubers […]