Redwood Consulting has been hired by real estate fund manager Clearbell Capital to deliver a comms campaign for The Gates shopping centre in Durham. It has also been appointed by Cherwell District Council to develop a brand vision for Bicester. Clearbell Capital has brought in Redwood to deliver a comms campaign for The Gates, which […]
Sian Gaskell, MD of CubanEight, on cutting her teeth at Channel 4, the mark of campaign success and her first challenging photoshoot. Before I reach the office in the morning, I’ve already… Had the prerequisite coffee and then managed to get my twin boys out the door and dropped them off at school. You’ll mostly […]
Financial services PR agency MRM has been appointed to raise the profile of employee benefit consultant and third-party administrator Goddard Perry. Associate director, Mark Gee, will lead the account team at MRM for Goddard Perry, which offers a range of services from actuarial and pension administration services to online benefits and independent financial advice. He […]
Trendit, which uses data from mobile phones to monitor the movement of people, pedestrian footfall and other urban trends, including shopping habits, has hired Yellow Jersey to provide comms support after it completed a £4m standard listing yesterday, which marks the first UK IPO of 2016. Trendit is looking to integrate its data, which includes location […]
Manchester Airport Group (MAG), which operates UK airports at Manchester, Stansted, East Midlands and Bournemouth, has appointed Graeme Elliott as group public affairs director. Elliot takes responsibility for MAG’s engagement with national politicians, government departments and other stakeholders on a range of aviation policy issues and will be involved with its international expansion. He is […]
Christina Sandkühler, EMEA, head of corporate communications at LaSalle Investment Management, on the value of creativity in PR, why there should be appreciation of the power of comms at board level and why she once had to organise the ‘world’s greatest dice roll’, up a mountain, in Greenland. Which media outlet can’t you start your […]
Jargon PR has been appointed by the wireless charging provider Chargifi to drive brand awareness throughout Europe and North America. The agency’s win will see the team provide support to Chargifi across two projects at trade shows, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held 6-9 January 2016 and Mobile World Congress (MWC) held 22-25 February 2016. […]
Skipton Building Society, the UK’s fourth largest building society by size of membership, has hired H+K Strategies’ London team following a competitive pitch process. H+K will work to increase awareness of the values of the building society, which has some £17bn in assets under management, as well as its financial services offering. The agency won […]
Colliers International has strengthened its UK comms team with the hires of Lauren Joselyn and Ada Taraszewska as PR managers from Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) and DTZ/Cushman & Wakefield, respectively. Joselyn (pictured right) led the EMEA PR team at JLL. She originally joined the real estate firm to advise and deliver on EMEA and global […]
With the final news alert for the year, Gorkana rounds up key learnings from our journalist interviews and media briefings over the last six months to help you get the coverage of your, and your clients’, dreams. Content is EVERYTHING Strong content has to be at the centre of what titles like Metro offers: “Just […]