Gorkana has a few final places available at Thursday’s exclusive breakfast briefing with weekly investment magazine Shares‘ editor Daniel Coatsworth. Shares is a weekly personal finance magazine aimed at private UK investors and stock market professionals. The title has an audited circulation of some 13,600 and its content often influences the market’s view of individual companies […]
Diffusion’s Tim Bond has joined the Direct Marketing Association Group (DMA), a trade association for the marketing industry, as group head of PR. In the role, Bond will take responsibility for developing the comms strategies for both the DMA and Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing (IDM) brands, which includes both bodies’ special councils and initiatives. The DMA and IDM merged […]
The Financial Times has named Sacha Bunatyan as global B2C marketing director, with a brief to grow its subscriptions business and enhance audience development. With more than 15 years’ experience, Bunatyan was COO at Amnet, Denstu Aegis’ group programmatic trading desk and has held senior roles at EMAP and AOL. During her time with AOL, she […]
Coffin on Cake PR has been appointed by British denim label Lee Cooper to manage the global launch of the brands’ premium selvedge denim range, ‘MADE IN ENGLAND’. Produced only in England, the MADE IN ENGLAND collection is made up of three cuts for men and three styles for women, which is being offered to a limited number of leading denim […]
Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), the financial services company’s asset management arm, has hired State Street Corporation’s Nicolette Botbol as a media relations manager. Reporting to communications consultant Irene Valenkamp, she will cover media relations for LGIM’s business lines including its institutional and retail business. Botbol has some nine years’ experience working in asset management […]
Coffee chain Costa has appointed Thrive PR’s Esme Knight as corporate communications manager. Knight takes responsibility for corporate communications, policy development, and crisis and issues management within Costa’s comms team. Reporting to Kerry Parkin, head of CSR and communications, Knight will work with Costa’s retained agencies Another Word, One Green Bean and Carmargue. Parkin said: […]
New London heritage attraction The Postal Museum has appointed Richmond Towers to increase consumer awareness in the lead up to its 2017 opening. When it officially opens in 2017, The Postal Museum will reveal stories from five centuries of Britain’s social history. Mail Rail, a mini underground railway formerly used by Royal Mail to transport letters under […]
Morrisons, the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain, has chosen Cirkle as its product PR agency as part of a planned review of its marketing agencies. Cirkle will be responsible for publicising grocery products, with a particular focus on the fresh food made in Morrisons stores and factories, as well as beers, wines and its Nutmeg clothing […]
Missed out on this week’s PR News? Get your handy round-up of the essential highlights of PR and media stories, features and events content over the last seven days on Gorkana News. Pitch Wins Lidl appointed W as its UK PR agency as the supermarket looks to increase the brand’s engagement with ‘aspirational’ shoppers in the UK. […]
Investor relations specialist Capital Access Group (CAG) has brought in Simon Brickles, formerly head of AIM at the London Stock Exchange, to chair its newly-launched advisory board. The advisory board is an informal forum which promotes greater investor engagement for quoted companies. It is made up of senior directors of listed companies, fund manager and senior City figures. Brickles, who […]