BritainThinks has hired Hannah Kilshaw as an associate director, in order to expand its education practice. Currently, the strategy and insights business works with clients including Pearson, AQA and the Association of School and College Leaders in the sector. Kilshaw joins from EdComs, where she held the role of senior research manager. She spent her time conducting […]
Burson-Marsteller has appointed Geoff McDonald, Unilever’s former global VP of HR for marketing, comms, sustainability and global talent, as a senior advisor on corporate purpose and organisational change. McDonald (pictured) spent 25 years at Unilever, working with CEO Paul Polman and chief marketing, comms and sustainability officer Keith Weed on the company’s strategy to double […]
Meggitt, the FTSE 250 global engineering group, has appointed FTI Consulting as its retained financial PR advisor. The engineering group specialises in aerospace equipment and its headquarters is at Bournemouth Airport in Dorset. FTI will provide the company with financial communications support. Deborah Scott, FTI’s senior managing director, and Nick Hasell, managing director, will lead the FTI […]
Strategic comms agency CNC, which is part of MSLGROUP, has brought in former BBC Breakfast presenter Dominic Laurie as a senior consultant within its London office. Laurie joins CNC following a career in broadcast journalism spanning more than 13 years, during which time he was a presenter on BBC Breakfast, anchor on BBC Radio Five, […]
Four Communications Group today (5 July 2016) announced the acquisition of independent healthcare comms consultancy Packer Forbes. Packer Forbes provides PR, medical education, digital patient advocacy and access communications to blue chip pharmaceutical clients, including Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Gilead Sciences and Novo Nordisk. Packer Forbes will rebrand as Four Health Communications, and will sit within a […]
Newgate Communications UK has appointed Charles Chichester as a new senior partner to lead its financial PR practice. Chichester will report to Steffan Williams, group managing director at Newgate and board member for Porta Communications, Newgate’s holding company. He will be responsible for growing Newgate’s client base, strengthening its offer and raising awareness of the company, particularly […]
In March, Running Fitness, the magazine for people who are passionate about running, rebranded as Running. Four months on, Gorkana‘s Ronan George catches up with editor Amy Curtis to find out why the title has done away with models on the cover to feature “real runners”, the type of runners she’s now looking to attract and what […]
Facebook Live has benefited a range of Punch Communications’ clients, according to its managing director Pete Goold, but PRs need to make the most of the opportunity before Facebook changes its rules. Goold told Gorkana that over the past six months Punch has seen an “unbelievably high level of interest among brands regarding Facebook Live, (more) […]
Jamie Hooper joins Buchanan in the role of associate director. Hooper is a corporate and financial PR specialist whose experience includes positions at Spreckley Partners and financial PR firm Abchurch. Hooper specialises in the life sciences and technology sectors, and has advised various private and publically-quoted companies on their corporate and financial communication requirements. He […]
Bally has brought in Michael Kors’ Hannah Thomas as global PR manager. Thomas was previously EMEA PR manager for Michael Kors, having joined the fashion label in 2015. While there, she worked on its Runway and Menswear collections in the UK, Scandinavia and the Netherlands, as well as franchise markets including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and […]