Handpicked Media founder Krista Madden has joined forces with editor and journalist Emily Seares to launch a creative SEO agency, We Elevate. We Elevate aims to offer a “fresh approach to brand communications”, based on an integrated SEO and content strategy. Madden founded Handpicked Media in 2009, a digital agency representing more than 500 digital […]
Sue Neilen has joined Virgo Health as head of the communications division. She joins from specialist health advertising agency, Langland, where she headed up corporate communications. Previously, Neilson spent time as a journalist, writer and as a producer for Worldwide Television London and the BBC, worked at Saatchi & Saatchi, and handled crisis communications for the Eurovision […]
Financial IT solutions firm, JHC Systems, has appointed Rostrum as its UK PR agency. Rostrum will target wealth management and national press, and aims to boost JHC’s online presence through the application of a strategic social media campaign. Mark Houlding, CEO at Rostrum, said: “JHC represents another strong addition to Rostrum’s client base. With a […]
David Fraser, former deputy MD of Frank PR and publicist for Lord Sugar, has launched a London-based PR and SEO agency called Ready10. Fraser spent 12 years at Frank and was named deputy MD in 2013. While there, he spent ten years as the personal publicist to Lord Sugar, alongside Frank MD Andrew Bloch. He joined the […]
British-made skincare brand ARK Skincare has brought in RKM Communications to handle its PR. The agency has been briefed to raise the profile of the ARK brand, highlighting its use of natural ingredients and core ranges, which include ageprotect, for women in their teens and 20s, agedefend, which is targeted at women in their 30s […]
Nudge PR has won an ongoing PR retainer for Only By Nature frozen yoghurts, with a brief to increase B2C and B2B brand awareness. Made with the Stevia leaf for no added sugar, Only By Nature’s Frozen Yoghurts claim to be the lowest calorie frozen yoghurts on the market and are gluten-free and vegetarian friendly. […]
Sports nutrition brand Optimum Nutrition, creator of whey protein Gold Standard Whey, has chosen Speed Communications to deliver a number of campaigns for the brand, ahead of a new initiative launch for its consumers to mark its 30th anniversary this year. The agency, which is part of part of The Mission Group and won the […]
Tristan Pineiro, co-head of 3 Monkeys Zeno’s consumer practice, reveals how he got a starter lesson in the importance of branding, recalls his first, unintentional, pitch to a journalist and wonders why “street food” is a thing. Before I reach the office in the morning, I’ve already… Walked Tuppence, my Jack Russell, spent an hour in […]
W has promoted its head of brand, Sophie Raine, to director, just over two years after she first joined the agency. Raine, who joined W in 2014, has helped grow the agency’s brand division, which has already brought in Lidl and V Festival as clients this year. She has also helped grow W’s Unilever portfolio. In her […]
RMS, the global catastrophe risk modelling company, has hired Aspectus to grow its presence beyond insurance sector and trade press. RMS and the financial services communications team at Aspectus aim to earn coverage within “wider” finance and business publications. Together, they plan to run a number of integrated campaigns throughout the year – from thought […]