Exact Ventures, the market intelligence firm, has appointed digital marketing and communications agency Liberty Communications to raise brand awareness and revamp its website. As part of the brief, Liberty will run a campaign, including PR and social media, to promote the firm’s thought leadership and Exact Ventures’ profile. Exact Ventures is based in California and, […]
Communications and design agency Emperor has acquired Oxfordshire-based corporate agency Accrue Fulton, a specialist in corporate comms, branding and reporting. Accrue Fulton, which has more than 50 clients in different sectors, will retain its own brand and bring the number of UK offices in Emperor’s network up to four. Following the acquisition, Richard Guy and […]
Lifestyle PR agency EdenCancan has promoted Mischa Joslin to associate director. Having joined the agency in February 2015 as a senior account director, Joslin will help shape the agency as a brand, with a focus on driving new business growth, in her new role. She will continue to oversee EdenCancan’s brand roster, acting as a senior […]
Coloplast has appointed Stand Agency to deliver a campaign to “get the nation talking” about the subject of constipation. Coloplast specialises in providing services and products in “intimate healthcare”, including ostomy, urology and continence, and wound and skin care. The brand says there are an estimated two million adults affected by constipation in the UK. Last year, constipation […]
Lansons advised Metro Bank on its successful listing on the London Stock Exchange last week. Metro Bank raised £400m through a private placement to existing and new shareholders before listing its shares on the Main Market last Thursday. Lansons has advised Metro Bank on all external communications since before its 2010 launch when it became […]
Sam Lister, the Department of Health’s comms director, is moving to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) as group director of comms. Lister has spent the last four-and-a-half years at the Department of Health (DH), where he has led several government comms programmes including the domestic handling of Ebola, the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, […]
Ranj George, head of consumer at LEWIS UK, on why agencies need to get better at valuing their staff, the need to love, live and breathe PR to succeed, and how he dreams of running a pick’n’mix shop in Shoreditch. Before I reach the office in the morning, I’ve already… Watched BBC Breakfast and Good Morning Britain, skimmed through two […]
JFA Systems, a travel reservations systems provider, has appointed its first PR agency, Rooster PR, to push its UK media launch. Following a competitive pitch, Rooster is launching JFA Systems to media in the UK, managing its press office and raising brand awareness among national and trade publications. JFA Systems, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this […]
Retail chain Poundland has hired FleishmanHillard Fishburn to handle its consumer PR and social media following a competitive pitch. The new arrangement is put in place this month and will include brand campaigns, content planning and press office activity. Gill Stewart, head of marketing & space, Poundland, said: “We went through a stringent pitch process and FleishmanHillard […]
Comms consultancy, JPES Partners has hired Miles Donohoe to join its expanding London team as director. Donohoe will join JPES’ management team and will have responsibility for growing the company’s client base within the wider financial services market. Julian Samways, managing director at JPES Partners, said: “This is a very exciting time for the company and, […]