Hotwire London’s Matt Watson and Paul Stollery have won the 2016 UK Young Lions PR competition. Six teams, including two from Hotwire, were shortlisted from 41 entries to win the accolade this year, in a competition which aims to find the best young PR professionals in the country. Each team, made up of individuals under […]
International strategic communications firm CNC has promoted former Independent on Sunday deputy business editor Simon Evans to director and Callum Laidlaw to senior consultant, respectively. Evans joined CNC in 2012 and has worked on a number of high profile transactions and comms mandates in the banking, private equity, investment management and broking sectors. A former […]
Global comms agency Cohn & Wolfe has named Diffusion’s Tom Malcolm as its new MD of consumer marketing for the UK. Malcolm has been briefed to enhance the growth of the agency’s consumer business in London. He will join Cohn & Wolfe’s UK management board following the recent promotion of UK consumer marketing MD Rebecca […]
Dean Russell, former EMEA creative strategy director at LEWIS PR, has launched epifny consulting, with Bite and the Direct Marketing Association as founding clients. The new consultancy offers data insights, creative comms and business strategy. It will also offer services including audits, strategy development, data analytics and mentoring and training. epifny is also working with Precedent Communications, as […]
Sports PR agency Pitch has launched a specialist sponsorship division, Pitch Partnerships, and brought Havas Sport & Entertainment Cake’s Gavin Peters to head up the new offer, which includes Swissquote and Yokohama as clients. Peters was previously chief strategy officer at Havas Sports & Entertainment Cake. He has more than 15 years of experience in […]
Innis & Gunn has appointed Manifest as its global comms agency following a competitive pitch, as the Edinburgh-based craft brewer embarks on expansion plans in both the UK and Canada. The agency has been briefed to develop a brand strategy and comms plan to be delivered across the company’s key markets; US, Sweden, Canada and […]
Citigate Dewe Rogerson‘s Manchester office has brought in Matthew Pears, formerly of marketing and PR firm SkyParlour, as an associate director. Pears will work on a range of Citigate’s corporate and B2B accounts with a view to growing its client base in the North West. At Manchester-based SkyParlour he focused on clients in the fraud, eCommerce, mCommerce and payment […]
Morrisons, the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain, has named Shine @ The Academy as its retained brand PR agency, following a competitive pitch. Shine @ The Academy is the second PR agency to be appointed by Morrisons this month after it brought in Cirkle as its product PR agency, as part of a planned review […]
AIM-listed energy company Tlou Energy has brought in St Brides as its retained financial PR. Tlou Energy delivers power in Botswana and South Africa through the development of coal bed methane (CBM) projects. Elisabeth Cowell, Lottie Brocklehurst and Megan Dennison are managing the brief. Cowell, partner at St Brides, said: “Tlou provides investors with access to compelling […]
Freelance travel writer Helen Wright talks to Gorkana‘s Richard Caldecourt about launching consumer travel site passportstamps.uk, why she’s keen to showcase less well known destinations, what PRs should consider when pitching in content ideas, and the best destination she’s ever visited. Tell us what passportstamps.uk is all about. passportstamps.uk features aspirational travel ideas that are achievable […]