Crédit Agricole Private Banking, a wealth manager, has rebranded to Indosuez Wealth Management and retained Havas firm Chandos Communications to provide comms support around its new structure. As part of its brief, Chandos will also continue to support the strategy and global coordination of the bank’s ongoing communications activities. Indosuez announced last week that its operations across Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific […]
Pitch Wins New Scientist has appointed Kaper to help launch New Scientist Live, a festival around science, technology and culture, which takes place in September at London’s ExCeL Centre. Headland has been brought in by The AA to support the relaunch of its financial services arm. Alton Towers Resort has brought in Mischief as its consumer PR agency, following […]
Alton Towers Resort has brought in Mischief as its consumer PR agency, following a competitive pitch. The brief will see Mischief work on two major new attractions for the theme park in 2016 – Galactica and the Rollercoaster Restaurant. Galactica is Alton Towers’ first rollercoaster featuring the addition of Virtual Reality, while the other major part of the […]
Sport, entertainment and comms group Chime Communications has named Diageo’s former chief executive, Paul Walsh, as its new chairman, following the acquisition of Chime by WPP and US-based private equity group Providence Equity last year. Lord Davies, who previously chaired Chime’s board, stepped down as chairman following the acquisition of Chime by WPP and Providence Equity for £374 million in […]
Zeno Group, sister agency of Edelman, has acquired 3 Monkeys Communications for an undisclosed figure. In the UK, the newly-combined agency will be known as 3 Monkeys | Zeno, with a team of around 75 people. Zeno’s UK team will move into 3 Monkeys office in Soho, London. 3 Monkeys founder Angie Moxham will lead […]
Sir Ray Tindle is the biggest champion and defender of the UK’s local press. Over a 68-year career he has built up his media empire Tindle Newspapers to become one of the biggest UK publishers in the UK. While commentators note the continuing decline of the industry, the 89-year old remains evangelical about the local press’ ability […]
M&C Saatchi PR has been appointed by Jacamo, the online menswear brand, to support Jacamo with both brand and product PR. The e-tailer wants to be seen as a fashion destination for modern men and M&C Saatchi will work closely with the brand ambassador and ex-cricketer Andrew Flintoff to deliver content for both digital and traditional media. M […]
Gaming Realms, the creator and publisher of real money and social gambling games for mobile, tablet and desktop computers, has appointed Yellow Jersey as its financial PR adviser. The company recently reported it had doubled 2015 revenues to £21.4m for the year ending on 31 December in a trading updated. This is up 116% on 2014’s £11.2m. It also announced that it […]
CoalFace Capital, the newly launched trading data company that financially rewards traders for their activity and performance, has hired Hume Brophy to manage its media launch campaign. This “virtual hedge fund“, which launched in October last year, allows independent investors to track the best-performing trades, in turn rewarding high-performing traders for their activity. Roddi Vaughan-Thomas, Ed Jenkins and Marion […]
The Gym Group, the low cost gym operator, has appointed Instinctif Partners as its retained business comms adviser, following a competitive pitch process. Instinctif takes responsibility for growing awareness of the “affordable gym” model to investors, sellside analysts and the media. It will also raise the company’s profile with all key stakeholders. Managing partners Matthew Smallwood and Justine […]