Heritage Financial Services Group (Heritage), a professional fund administrator and fiduciary, has appointed Quill following a competitive pitch. Quill will drive a media relations campaign raising Heritage’s corporate profile and supporting its growth in the UK primarily, with additional activity in Guernsey and Malta. Hugo Mortimer-Harvey, Quill’s MD, will lead the account with the support of […]
Good Relations has launched a new broadcast consultancy, Good Broadcast, and brought in Sound Creative’s Phil Caplin to lead the new offer. Good Broadcast, which will sit within Chime-owned Good Relations, will allow the agency to work on standalone broadcast projects for its clients across a range of platforms including broadcast interviews, podcasts, video news […]
Car leasing company LeasePlan UK has brought in Bottle to handle its PR. LeasePlan UK, launched in 1979, operates a UK serviced fleet with more than 164,900 vehicles and it provides services to specific market segments via four brands: LeasePlan (corporations), LeasePlan Go (SME), Network (Franchisees) and Automotive Leasing (public sector). Bottle has been briefed to […]
Tulchan Communications has named six partners, including Morgan Stanley’s Doug Campbell and Severn Trent’s David Lloyd-Seed, as it makes a number of appointments across the business. Campbell was most recently a director in Morgan Stanley’s corporate broking division and has a particular focus on the financial services and pharma sectors. Lloyd-Seed held the interim head of […]
Richard Griffiths, outgoing director of European comms at ebay’s StubHub and founder of RGC Partners, on how his move from journalism into comms felt like “coming home”, the heightened profile of PR, and getting clients to address uncomfortable truths. What is the most important thing you learned as a business reporter at the BBC, and how has that impacted […]
B2B agency Gravity London has hired David Andrews, founder of financial services PR boutique David Andrews Media, on a retained basis to build its financial division. The appointment coincides with the firm’s recent appointment by independent pension trustee Dalriada after a competitive pitch process. Andrews, who was previously at Grayling, will continue to run David Andrews Media while […]
Gorkana has a few final places available at tomorrow’s (23 February) exclusive breakfast briefing with The Sun’s deputy travel editor, Matthew Hampton. The Sun Travel section is designed to give readers inspiration for where to take their holidays and breaks, and to help them get the best deals when booking them. It features reviews of […]
Interiors company Graham and Green has brought in Cox & Cox’s Kate Vincent as PR and social media manager. Vincent has been briefed to raise the profile of the Graham and Green brand, with an initial focus on the launch of a new showroom in Bayswater in the Spring, and a new shop in Bath […]
Speciality pharma company Allergy Therapeutics has hired Consilium Strategic Communications as its international financial PR and investor relations adviser. The London-listed pharma company focuses on the treatment of allergic disorders including immunotherapy vaccines. Mary-Jane Elliott, Chris Gardner, Ivar Milligan, Matthew Neal and Laura Thornton make up the Consilium team advising the client. Elliott, managing partner at Consilium, said: […]
Creative comms group Beattie is to create 30 new jobs across its UK office network, as part of its 30th birthday celebrations. Founded in 1986 initially as a news agency, it is now an integrated comms and marketing group, with a turnover of £13 million, 100-strong staff and three headline brands: comms consultancy Beattie, student recruitment […]