ReputationInc, an international reputation management consultancy headquartered in London, has opened an office in Norway. Managing partner Dennis Larsen leads the team, with support from special advisor Peggy Simcic Brønn and consultant Thomas Groot. Larsen, who has some 15 years’ experience working in reputation strategy, will use the Norwegian office as a platform to bring the consultancy’s work […]
Quickscore has appointed Henman Communications to handle the PR for the launch of a full colour SMART digital cricket scoreboard, which will be unveiled at All Our Cricket Live at Lords Cricket Ground in London on Sunday (21 February 2016). With an estimated 3 billion audience around the world, cricket can claim to be the […]
Mobile World Congress (MWC), which will be held in Barcelona next week (from 22-25 February), is the biggest mobile and technology conference in the world attracting thousands of brands, journalists and attendees year-after-year. It gives PRs interested in the sector, opportunities to network, chances to create media coverage and reach a vast audience both at the event and indirectly. However, […]
Bowel cancer research charity Bowel Cancer UK has brought in Gus Baldwin from Leonard Cheshire Disability as director of external affairs. Baldwin will join Bowel Cancer UK on Monday 29 February, having spent the past nine months at Leonard Cheshire Disability as MD – public affairs and engagement. Before that, he spent nearly ten years […]
Tori Campbell, Mulberry’s head of marketing, has joined Dragon Advisory as a partner to lead its luxury brands and lifestyle division. As head of marketing for British fashion house Mulberry, she ran its brand and global marketing strategy for just under a decade. Campbell joins Dragon as its recently formed partnership model, created to attract […]
BQ, a European producer of smartphones, robotics and 3D printers, has appointed global brand comms agency apple tree, as it prepares to launch in the UK. Launched in Madrid five years ago, BQ operates across eight territories, with its products available in more than 50 countries. The business has a turnover of £151.1 million and produces education tools for schools […]
Candriam Investors Group, the European asset manager with some €91bn (£71bn) in AUM, has hired Marion Leblanc-Wohrer as global head of corporate comms. Reporting into Candriam CEO Naïm Abou-Jaoudé, Leblanc-Wohrer will split her time between Candriam’s offices in London, France and Benelux. Abou-Jaoudé said: “It is with great pleasure that we welcome Marion Leblanc-Wohrer to Candriam. She […]
Edelman Canada chair John Clinton has been named as the jury president for this year’s PR Lions at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Clinton leads a team of more than 250 people across Canada. In addition, he is also North American head of creative and content. With a career spanning more than 20 […]
Lansons has appointed James Dowling to a newly-created head of public policy role, to strengthen the consultancy’s capability in the public affairs, policy and government relations space. Dowling was most recently director in FleishmanHillard Fishburn’s corporate team which he joined in 2011. Prior to that, he spent five years at HM Treasury running the Finance Bill team, […]
When readers of The Sun opened the paper last Friday, they were met with a challenge to take on games editor Lee Price in a game of Stick Tennis Tour 2.0 that day. Behind the scenes, Stick Sports had briefed PR and marketing agency Dimoso to publicise the launch of its newest game by partnering up with a major press partner. The results? […]