Storm Communications has been appointed by New Covent Garden Market, as part of a seven year regeneration project for the UK’s largest fruit and vegetable wholesale market. New Covent Garden Market is home to 200 food and flower businesses. The fruit and vegetable market supplys 40% of fresh produce to London’s restaurants, cafes, schools and businesses. […]
Online office furniture retailer Kit Out My Office has briefed 10 Yetis Digital to handle its PR as part of a wider marketing drive to raise awareness of the brand and its offer. Kit Out My Office, which provides office desks, chairs and storage solutions, has already undertake various online marketing campaigns, but is now launching […]
Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts has chosen HSE Cake as its retained global PR agency, following a four-way competitive pitch. Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, which is part of InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), is the second largest “upscale” hotel brand globally, with more than 400 hotels in 63 countries. The hotel chain has briefed […]
A management team at global comms consultancy Infinite Spada, lead by co-founder Jamie Diaferia (pictured), has acquired co-founder Gavin Ingham Brooke’s majority shareholding for an undisclosed sum. Diaferia, who founded Infinite PR in 2001 in New York, will succeed Ingham Brooke as Global CEO and majority owner. Ingham Brooke, who founded Spada in London in 1994, will become of counsel to […]
Manchester-based PR agency Carousel has been handed a PR and social media brief to launch the first Digital Kids Show, which takes place in October. The show, which will run on 29 and 30 October at Event City in Manchester, aims to “bring to life the digital world for families” and highlight the opportunities children have to […]
Steffan Williams, group managing director at Newgate, on why corporate PRs need to be decisive, the similarities between investment banking and comms and the importance of teamwork. What media do you consume in the mornings and on the way to the office? I’ve always been a Radio 4 fan. I wake up to the Today programme and listen to […]
CNC Communications & Network Consulting, a member of MSLGROUP, has made two strategic hires in its London office with the appointment of Richard Rigby and Riku Heikkila, who join as consultant and senior associate, respectively. Rigby, a specialist in reputation restoration, media and public affairs campaigns following periods of crisis or significant change, joins CNC from […]
Everyone – from organisations to individuals – is vulnerable to crises. When it comes to crisis situations the question is not if it will affect your brand or client but when. As with other areas of communications, crisis comms is facing more challenges than ever as the media landscape continues to fragment and transform. PRs […]
Financial services group State Street has hired Citigate’s Lauren Willington as EMEA PR manager. Willington will be part of an in-house PR team of four and report to Noreen Shah, head of corporate communications, EMEA. She joins State Street from Citigate Dewe Rogerson, where she was an account director within its corporate practice focusing on the agency’s asset […]
Global digital marketing company Criteo has appointed Nelson Bostock Unlimited as its UK PR agency, following a competitive pitch. Criteo currently works with more than 10,000 advertisers across 80 countries on “dynamically generated ads”, which are personalised with products and services that consumers are searching for. Nelson Bostock Unlimited has been briefed to enhance Criteo’s […]