Adviser Rankings Ltd, a financial data publisher, has revealed its quarterly AIM Advisers Rankings Guide. The lists rank professional services firms according to the number of AIM-listed clients they service. FTI Consulting retained top position in the Total AIM Clients list with 69 clients, five more than last quarter. In the same list, Buchanan moved up […]
Way To Blue has brought in Edelman’s Claire Slight as group digital and social director, as part of a major restructure that will create a new specialist global team across the company’s offices in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and across Europe. Slight has worked with Edelman Digital over the past two and a half […]
Instinctif Partners has appointed Louisa Moreton as engagement director to its global engagement practice. Moreton joins from MSLGroup, where she was managing director of its UK employee practice and has worked in several engagement and talent consultancy roles across the Omnicom group. Prior to that, Moreton worked for the UK government’s marketing and communications agency, […]
Amanda Cumine has joined First Utility as corporate communications director. The gas and electricity supplier has also hired a new head of public affairs, Tara Singh. Cumine joins from a European corporate comms director role at Lastminute.com, while Singh has been working on Zac Goldsmith’s mayoral campaign and at Number 10 as an energy and […]
French video game producer Ubisoft, which includes Assassin’s Creed and Rayman amongst its portfolio, has chosen Stripe Communications to handle its UK consumer and corporate PR. Stripe Communications has been appointed by Ubisoft UK as its retained consumer and corporate PR agency, working alongside its in-house PR team. Stripe will deliver creative PR comms plans to support all of […]
The Missing Type NHS campaign by Engine has won multiple awards this year, including a Health & Wellness Lion at the 2016 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. The campaign for NHS Blood and Transplant during National Blood Week raised awareness around a need for blood donors through missing letters across major media and signage. Campaign: Missing Type Client: NHS Blood & […]
Missed out on this week’s PR News? Get your handy round-up of the essential highlights of PR and media stories, features and events content over the last seven days on Gorkana News. People News Following the PRCA‘s AGM yesterday, the association has announced the election of a new chairman, Newgate Communications’ group MD, Steffan Williams. […]
As The New European publisher Archant reveals that it will continue to publish issues of the pop-up title after its initial cut-off date, Gorkana explores the opportunities PRs may find from such titles. This week, publisher Archant stated that it will continue to publish editions of its pop-up newspaper, The New European after it exceeded […]
ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has appointed comms agency Tin Man to launch the second series of children’s show Thunderbirds Are Go and promote the latest DVD release of American detective drama Aquarius. Produced using a mixture of CGI animation and live-action model sets, Thunderbirds Are Go is a reinvention of the Thunderbirds series, 50 […]
Europe’s leading wood burning stove company, Contura, has chosen Rooster to handle its UK PR. As Contura’s first PR agency since the company’s UK launch in 2008, Rooster has been briefed to develop an integrated PR and social media campaign to drive awareness of the brand, its extensive product range and the benefits of wood […]