Cultural Communications has been appointed by Steppes Travel to support the launch of its inaugural travel festival, Beyond. Beyond is set to take place at the Royal Geographical Society on 17 and 18 September and will include Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Chris Packham, Monty Halls, Charlie Mayhew and Saba Douglas-Hamilton as speakers. Alongside 16 speaker events, […]
Broadcast PR agency Radio Relations is behind today’s launch of Local Radio Day, a new initiative created by local radio group UKRD to promote the benefits of local radio in the UK. Local Radio Day has today released research supported by an infographic that was produced by the Radio Relations team, to show the importance of […]
British high-street chain Wilko has appointed Brazen as its retained PR and social media agency, following a competitive pitch. Wilko, which has been owned and run by the Wilkinson family for 85 years, has briefed Manchester-based Brazen to handle its consumer PR and social media, devise a community and charity strategy, and provide regional support […]
Financial and corporate comms agency EM has announced its expansion into North America with the opening of a New York office. This the fourth office for the agency, which specialises in financial, corporate and crisis comms for emerging markets such as Russia and China and follows its successful launch in Hong Kong in September 2015. […]
Golley Slater PR will handle communications for LDF, the largest “non-bank” SME finance provider in the UK. LDF is a 30-year-old business that, it says, hasn’t focussed on its PR strategy before now. Following its appointment, Golley Slater’s Leeds office will help the business to convey the benefits of non-bank lending routes by creating “compelling content and news […]
Dundee-based regional newspaper The Courier was named Newspaper of the Year at last week’s Regional Press Awards so Gorkana‘s Josh Gray caught up with its editor, Richard Neville, to find out what he thought secured the top prize for his paper, why the local community remains central to its content and what his plans are for the paper’s 200th anniversary […]
At Gorkana‘s London media briefing event this morning, John Crowley, editor-in-chief of the International Business Times, announced a roster of new columnists and introduced the title’s new business editor, Gaurav Sharma. Sharma will begin writing a weekly column on the UK site from the first week of June. His previous roles include positions at CNBC […]
Global social media agency We Are Social has boosted its creative and production teams by hiring All Together Now’s Daniel Evans as associate creative director and Hello You Creatives’ founder Dan Vallint-Riggs as its first shooting director. Evans has worked in senior creative roles for agencies including Huge and Buzzman Paris. Most recently, he was […]
Scottish PR agency The BIG Partnership has expanded its offering in the North West of England with the launch of a new Manchester office, and brought in Sarah Lawless from marketing agency One to head it up. The move follows a string of client wins for The Big Partnership worth in excess of £250k in the last […]
The PR and comms team at Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has launched a campaign to make finance and fund management more accessible. AllianzGI’s fantasy fund management game, European Equities 2016, allows would-be investors to manage European stocks as if it were their own portfolio. With the “look and feel of a traditional fantasy football game,” European Equities […]