London restaurant and cocktail bar TWID has selected music PR firm Quite Great Communications to promote its opera-themed dining experience. Quite Great will handle the Battersea venue’s brand promotion and implement a creative, multi-layered strategy to compliment the blog and social networking agencies already working with TWID. “TWID represents a great place to eat, as well as […]
The Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) has handed a PR brief to London-based Rooster PR after reporting strong UK visitor figures for the beginning of 2017. The CTO predicts that 2017 will be a record-breaking year with over three per cent year-on-year increase in UK visitors recorded from January to March. Cyprus received 99,503 UK visitors […]
Finn has been appointed by discount retailer The Works to handle its corporate PR brief. Reporting into CEO, Kevin Keaney, Finn will deliver a communications campaign designed to raise The Works’ business profile and communicate its proposition within national and retail trade media and online channels. Finn will work closely with The Works executive team, private equity […]
London-based fintech startup Hedgd has brought in Mash PR to handle comms activity around the launch of its upcoming flagship product. Hedgd designs software to enable investment managers to take control of data, costs and productivity. Mash PR will drive Hedgd’s messaging, content marketing, media and analyst relations as it enters the market. Oliver South, co-founder […]
Edelman UK has appointed Burson-Marsteller’s former healthcare chair, Kate Hawker, as MD of its UK healthcare team. Hawker brings 25 years’ experience working with biopharmaceutical companies across a variety of therapeutic areas. Formerly healthcare chair at Burson-Marsteller, she tripled the size of its healthcare business and led global, EMEA and UK clients, including AstraZeneca, GSK, […]
Ascential, the company that owns the Cannes Lions awards and festival, has hired Propeller PR to aid its comms strategy ahead of this year’s advertising and creativity festival which takes place in the south of France next month. The agency will support the existing Cannes Lions press office team and target specific messages and themes around the international festival of creativity […]
City of London has chosen Flint to lead its comms activity for Londinium, a festival celebrating the Roman heritage of the City of London. Londinium plans to unearth some of the City’s long lost stories and deepest buried secrets, and will feature new arts commissions from Boy Blue Entertainment and Wiretapper, the opening of the […]
Organic chickpea puff brand Hippeas has made Spring & Tonic PR its retained UK agency following an initial four-month brief. Hippeas joins a smorgasbord of snack companies on the food and drink specialist’s roster, including including Pip & Nut, The Coconut Collaborative, Doisy & Dam and Gran Luchito. Craig Hughes, Hippeas MD, said: “Since Spring & Tonic has […]
English Apples & Pears has handed a six-figure PR brief to Richmond Towers Communications to “put British apples at the top of the nation’s shopping lists”, following a five-way pitch. The campaign, which starts this summer to coincide with the key domestic apple season, will seek to make shoppers understand that British is best and […]
Natural beauty brand Yes To has appointed Mischief on retainer to manage its consumer PR and social activity. In addition to creating brand fame campaigns, Mischief’s beauty and wellbeing division will handle the launch of Yes To’s first-to-market products in the UK, which are designed to “shake-up the skincare space”. Most recently, this includes Yes To 2-Step […]