Mason Williams PR has launched a Mother, Baby and Parenting division, with initial clients and projects including baby mattress brand SleepCurve, pure fruit snacking bar Fruit Heroes and an ambassadorship programme for preschool development specialist Lamaze, featuring Coleen Rooney. Headed by senior consultant Victoria Barker and senior director Joanne Greer, the division is on the hunt for more opportunities […]
KINC has been named as the first UK marketing agency for video gaming headset brand Astro Gaming, with a brief to develop a PR and marketing strategy to target new audiences for the brand. Astro creates video gaming headsets and equipment across multiple platforms, and its products are recognised as the official audio gaming headset […]
Headland has appointed Tulchan’s senior communications adviser, Lucy Legh, as director. After a decade of working with Tulchan, Legh joins Headland’s 37-strong team and she brings extensive experience of advising companies on how to communicate their investment case and corporate strategy to the media and capital markets. Chris Salt, CEO at Headland, said: “Lucy’s appointment is another significant […]
Strategic comms group, Vigo, has been appointed by Premaitha Health to advise on capital markets communications. The Premaitha account team will be led at Vigo by director Ben Simons and account director Fiona Henson. Simons said: “Premaitha is at the forefront of an emerging multi-billion pound market for non-invasive prenatal testing. Its leading CE marked system is […]
The InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has promoted Yasmin Diamond, senior vice president of global corporate affairs, to its executive committee. Diamond is set to join the committee and become executive vice president of global corporate affairs on 4 April 2016. Richard Solomons, chief executive officer at IHG, said: “This promotion reflects the enormous contribution Yasmin […]
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Hotel Chocolat has appointed its retained adviser Citigate Dewe Rogerson to manage its financial communications through its IPO and beyond. Citigate will handle the media relations as Hotel Chocolat lists on AIM and embarks on the next stage of growth and invests in store rollouts, expansion of its UK factory and invests in its digital offering. […]
Online arts and culture magazine After Nyne has brought in Alexander PR & Communications to support the launch of its bi-monthly print publication. After Nyne, which WH Smith will stock in 160 of its stores from June, has an online following of more than 45,000 through its social media platforms. Alexander has been briefed to lead a 12-month national awareness campaign […]
Global communications firm Next 15 has acquired Publitek, a specialist technical content marketing business. Next 15 specialises in acquiring, incubating and growing data-driven digital agencies with a diverse range of services. It also provides firms with mentoring and financial support. Bob Jones, Publitek’s founder and CEO, stays with the business following its acquisition. Tim Dyson, CEO at […]
Smoking Gun PR has been appointed to handle comms activity for Seema Malhotra and Stacey Forsey, who are new cast members in ITVBe’s reality show The Real Housewives of Cheshire. Seema Malhotra is the founder and design director of aspirational online fashion brand Forever Unique (a client of Smoking Gun PR), which she launched with her husband Sandeep […]