GK Strategy’s co-founding director, Robin Grainger, discusses the agency’s success, surviving in the current media environment and why you should never say “no comment”. GK Strategy picked up the Specialist Adviser of the Year award at the Private Equity Awards recently, what’s been the secret to the agency’s success? Always being open-minded to how products and […]
London fintech startup Curve has made its first PR and comms hire with the appointment of Burson-Marsteller’s Callum McCaig, as the business prepares to scale out of ‘beta’ and launch its digital banking platform to the mass market. Curve has raised £3m in seed funding from investors, including Seedcamp and the founders of Transferwise, Betfair, Azimo and […]
Energy provider npower has promoted its senior PR manager (consumer), Zoe Melarkey, to head of PR. Melarkey has been at npower since 2005. She started off her career at Hill+Knowlton Strategies and has also held PR roles at MFI and Powergen. As head of PR, Melarkey will take on day-to-day responsibility of npower’s PR activity […]
Portland has hired Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph journalist Zoe Brennan as partner and head of writing. Brennan will lead on speech-writing, drafting op-eds, and writing narratives for clients, as well as messaging across the agency. She will work with and report to Mark Flanagan, managing director of Portland’s corporate team. Brennan brings a […]
PHA Media has hired Marlin PR’s Jasmin Prichard as senior account manager. Prichard’s move is motivated by wanting to move away from tech PR and into a more business focused role, according to the agency. She will be working in the Entrepreneurs and Business team, dealing with business leaders and their companies. Prichard said: “PHA Media’s Entrepreneurs and […]
PlayStation UK has appointed The Romans as its retained PR agency, following a three-month competitive pitch process. The brief, which will span both hardware and software, includes press office, influencer relations, content creation and PR–led experiential activity. As well as focusing on brand-led campaigns to take PlayStation 4 to new audiences, The Romans will lead on […]
The Professional Publishers Association (PPA) has appointed Finn to provide PR and communications support for the PPA Festival 2017. Finn’s Media Practice, headed up by partner and director Matt Bourn, will provide specialist services for the media industry event which takes place at London’s Tobacco Dock on May 10. The Festival has a speaker line-up from […]
Launch has adopted a new ‘real ideas’ positioning and dropped the PR from its name as Frank PR’s Barbara Watson joins as director of brand and content. The new position looks to highlight Launch’s integrated offering, which puts ‘ideas, delivery and talent at the heart’ of the business. Watson will lead a brand content team […]
Engine has launched a new on-site agency called NuFu in response to increasing client demand for “always-on content and design capability”. The new offer will be led by Sam Broster, who joins Engine from Oliver. Short for Nuclear Fusion, NuFu will source experts to sit within client organisations and work exclusively for them. They will provide on-site […]
Electrolux Group, which includes home appliance brands Electrolux, AEG and Zanussi, has appointed Clarion Communications as its UK consumer and trade PR agency. The main focus of Clarion’s UK brief includes brand building and new product launch amplification for Electrolux Group’s AEG offering across its kitchen portfolio of products. The brief also includes press office […]