The CIPR (Chartered Institute for Public Relations) has revealed the names of the shortlisted PR agencies, teams and campaigns in its annual, regional PRide Awards. The 2016 PRide Awards will take place in nine regions across the UK: Anglia, Thames and Chiltern, Cymru Wales, Midlands, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South of England and Channel Islands […]
Ready10, the PR and SEO agency set up last month by David Fraser, Lord Sugar’s former publicist, is handling the UK launch of urban mobility app Ubeeqo, which is part-owned by car hire giant Europcar. Ubeeqo, which also operates in Paris, Brussels, Berlin and Hamburg, offers users a three-in-one travel proposition, with minicabs provided by Addison Lee, […]
The PR Office has promoted Chris Wilson to account director, and Aaron Bass and James Wright to senior account manager positions. Wilson joined the PR Office from City Road Communications where he was head of communications. His previous employers include Citigate Dewe Rogerson and Dice Medical Communications. Bass and Wright joined the agency in 2014 working, […]
Barri Friedman Rafferty assumes the title from current Ketchum president and CEO Rob Flaherty, who becomes chairman and CEO. Rafferty, who joined Ketchum in 1994, has led its North America business since 2012. She will continue to lead in the region, and grow its Ketchum Sports & Entertainment and Ketchum Digital practices. She will also continue to oversee […]
New luxury “home wellbeing” brand TINCTURE has appointed Rain Communications to handle its UK launch, which is set for October 2016. Founded by sisters Anastasia Brozler and Angelika Davenport, the “all-natural” TINCTURE brand aims to protect against the “harms of modern day living”, with cleaning products including surface cleaners, washing up liquids, hand lotions and room sprays. […]
In 2015, TVC launched GrandFest, a one-day festival for the “older people’s” charity Royal Voluntary Service (RVS), to showcase the craft skills of talented older people. This year, to make the event bigger and better, the agency drafted in a host of volunteers, all aged 70 or more (dubbed ‘GrandMakers’), to host masterclasses for “hipsters” and managed to […]
Tesco has appointed Coca Cola’s Jane Lawrie to its executive committee as group comms director. She will join the retailer on 10 October 2016. Lawrie has more than 25 years’ experience in corporate, financial, colleague and digital comms. At Coca Cola, she has been leading European public affairs and comms since 2011, having first joined the […]
Gorkana’s latest White Paper: 9 Key Insights Into Journalism and Social Media in the UK, based on an annual survey, shows that social media, and the way that it is used by journalists, is changing. This year’s findings show that, for instance, while journalists continue to use social media widely, the way they use and think about the […]
Cloud-based video conferencing platform, LyteSpark, has appointed Redleaf Communications to deliver its comms brief. Rishi Banerjee, senior account manager at Redleaf Communications, Roy Turner, media relations manager and account executive Sofie Ford will work on the account. Emma Kane, Chief executive at Redleaf Communications, said: “We are delighted to have been appointed to work with […]
Smithfield, the financial PR consultancy, supported Dragon Capital, a Vietnam-focused financial institution, as it listed its flagship fund on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The asset manager is listed as Vietnam Enterprise Investments Limited (VEIL) on the main market of the LSE. A three-month campaign involving global road shows led to the fund listing on 5 […]