Vision Express UK has appointed brand PR agency Launch PR to help raise awareness of its range of glasses frames. Launch PR has been briefed to create media experiences to launch the range and promote the eye health specialist services on offer at Vision Express stores. Niki Wheeler, a director at Launch PR, will lead the account. Jenny Wye, senior PR manager […]
Lanware, a provider of cloud-based, outsourced tech for financial services firms, has hired Cognito to raise its profile in the fintech community. Cognito is working with Lanware’s management team to build a strategic comms and thought-leadership programme. It aims to create a greater understanding of Lanware’s products, which include virtual desktops and cloud-based applications, and highlight its approach to placing security at […]
Lucre has had its PR brief with Stonegate Pub Company expanded to include the company’s entire branded bar division, which includes Yates and Flares, following the agency’s work with the Slug and Lettuce chain in the past eight months. The agency has handled all PR activity for the Slug and Lettuce chain since March 2015. A key part of […]
Kwittken London, the UK arm of international PR agency Kwittken, has appointed David Taylor, formerly the head of communications for Orange-France Telecom Europe, and Gary Wilson, a consumer tech PR specialist, to its management team. Taylor (pictured) joins as director of content with responsibility for Kwittken’s new content arm, Agenda. He will build on the firm’s existing editorial […]
Retail business Costcutter Supermarkets Group, which owns the Costcutter and Kwiksave brands, has appointed MCG to deliver an “extensive” trade and corporate PR programme. The group, which owns some 2,600 stores across the UK, has commissioned the consultancy to work across its national store portfolio. Sophie Hayes, account director, leads the brief. Simon Brown, Costcutter Group PR and […]
Business news is no longer confined to the City pages or niche publications. In recent years, it has become a ‘mainstream’ concern and is increasingly popular. A new Gorkana White Paper explores how this trend affects communicators and PRs and what it means for corporate and financial specialists, in particular, as their work feeds into the […]
Communications agency Farrer Kane has appointed Tali Robinson, formerly of Spada, as associate director. Robinson has more than 15 years’ experience advising clients across a range of sectors, on disciplines including comms planning, cross-border media campaigns and wider reputation management issues. She joins Farrer Kane after eight years at professional services firm Spada, where she ran campaigns ranging […]
Penguin Random House has hired creative brand comms agency Taylor Herring to help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Beatrix Potter, British author, illustrator and creator of children’s characters such as Peter Rabbit. The agency, which won the account following a competitive pitch, has been briefed to develop a campaign that will bring […]
Burson-Marsteller has announced today that its chairman, Mike Love, is to step down with immediate effect. It is understood that Love is stepping down from his role as chairman for personal reasons. He will remain an employee of Burson-Marsteller, providing senior advice to clients and colleagues. Amanda Pierce, UK CEO, said: “Mike Love has been […]
Every week large charities such as Dementia UK, the Big Lottery Fund, Heritage UK and WaterAid, use #charitytuesday to promote their causes via Twitter. As a hashtag, it regularly trends and it inspires others such as #givingtuesday, which launched in 2014. As a concept, #charitytuesday began back in 2009, when the founders of the former organisation Lovebox, decided […]