Shirin Majid has rejoined Weber Shandwick to become creative director, 17 years after starting her PR career at the agency’s Washington, D.C. office. Based in London, Majid will help oversee the creative output of Weber’s UK offices and lead work for key clients across its consumer, corporate, healthcare, technology, and social impact practices. She will report to […]
Travel Alberta, the tourism marketing organisation for the Canadian Province, has appointed KBC to handle its travel media relations, social media and consumer marketing in the UK, Benelux and Scandinavia. KBC secured the contract, which will run for an initial three-year period, as part of an RFP process which began in October 2015. The agency will work with […]
Lansons has enhanced its healthcare team with the appointment of Red Door Unlimited’s Kate Aldous as an associate director. Aldous has been briefed to bolster Lansons’ capability in the corporate healthcare sector. Over the last three years, the agency has worked on projects in the public and private sector for clients including Novartis, MSD, and Simply […]
VFS Global, the world’s largest outsourcing and technology services specialist for governments and diplomatic missions, has appointed Kuoni Group’s Peter Brun to chief comms officer. Brun, who takes up his new role on July 1, will head up corporate comms, marketing and branding, and CSR activity for VFS Gobal, which is based in 124 countries […]
Instinctif Partners has been appointed as communications advisor to Rentplus following a competitive pitch. Instinctif is set to promote Rentplus’ business which provides “affordable” rent-to-buy homes. The agency will push the offering to local authorities, central government, national and regional housebuilders and tenants. The agency will use a multichannel communications strategy which includes content origination, […]
PR and marketing agency Shooting Star is offering a morning of free PR “clinics” to Lincolnshire businesses in July 2016. The Lincoln and Bristol-based agency is set to offer advise to local businesses at the University of Lincoln on Wednesday 6 July from 9:30am to 1pm. Previously, Shooting Star has hosted a morning of PR clinics as part […]
St Giles Trust, a charity helping ex-offenders and disadvantaged people to move their lives forward, has appointed Hume Brophy as it expands into healthcare. The charity is planning to provide services which it says would help relieve pressure on the healthcare system, reducing attendances and speeding up discharge times. Hume Brophy will advise St Giles Trust […]
CDNetworks has appointed tech PR agency CCgroup to manage its UK PR communications and support its SEO, PPC and sales lead generation. CDNetworks provides the technology, network infrastructure and customer services needed for the secure and reliable delivery of internet content and applications, and also helps brands launch websites in China and Russia. Its customers […]
Harvard has been brought in to handle the consumer PR brief for music systems company Linn, with a brief to increase brand awareness across the UK. The agency, which won the account without a pitch, has been briefed to introduce Linn’s music systems to a wider audience, with a particular focus on its new Series […]
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