Celebrity Cruises has brought in Cheapflights’ former global marketing lead, Sam Otter, as director of marketing and PR for the UK and Ireland. Otter has been global marketing director at Cheapflights since 2015. She has also held senior marketing roles with brands including, Virgin Holidays, O2 and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. Her new role […]
Carlos Carnicero Urabayen, is European correspondent and political analyst for a range of Spanish newspapers and publications, including El País, El Periódico de Catalunya and HuffPost. He talks to Gorkana’s Mario Cipriano about his career in Brussels and his view of modern journalism. You studied Economics and Political Science before becoming a journalist. Why take this career path? I studied Law and […]
Milk & Honey PR has been appointed by 2020 Dynamics, the Microsoft Dynamics partner, to support sales and drive leads for the CRM specialist. 2020 Dynamics was set up to look for a communications partner to amplify marketing efforts and drive brand visibility in the UK marketplace by using a combination of brand building, storytelling […]
Wolfstar has been appointed by digital X-ray imaging specialist Direct Conversion to establish and build its social media presence. Direct Conversion is a multinational company headquartered in Sweden, with offices in London and Finland. The company comprises two brands: XCounter and AJAT. The group develops and sell X-Ray imaging and photon-counting technology for a range […]
Leeds-based digital agency It Works has appointed Kate Roodt as client services manager, James Nuttall as content and outreach specialist and Andre Hughes as SEO executive. Roodt has more than seven years agency experience at Leeds agency ilk, in both traditional PR as well as creative account management working with B2B and B2C clients. Nuttall joins […]
Aisle 8 has brought in Beauty SEEN’s Darren Hewitt-McLaren as senior beauty PR manager. Hewitt-McLaren will oversee the Aisle 8’s beauty division, with brands including blow LTD, DCL (Dermatologic Cosmetic Laboratories), EISENBERG Paris and Immunocologie. Reporting into co-founder and director Lauren Stevenson, Hewitt-McLaren will work alongside PR manager Jade Jackman, and will be supported by […]
London-based financial and corporate communications agency Morgan Rossiter has appointed Kathleen Edmondson as account manager and Rosie Ward as senior account executive, as it expands its financial services, real estate and digital health offering. Edmonson will add to Morgan Rossiter’s growing real estate and digital health expertise – both key areas of growth for the business. Prior […]
CNC Communications & Network Consulting (CNC), the global strategic communications consultancy, was named 2017 EMEA Financial PR Consultancy of the Year at The Holmes Report’s EMEA SABRE Awards in London this week. The SABRE Awards attracts more than 2,000 entries from across the EMEA region each year. Judges remarked on CNC’s rapid revenue growth, its […]
Your bitesize update on the latest People News and Moves featured on Gorkana News: Mark Walsh joins Ketchum Ketchum has appointed Citizen Relations’ Mark Walsh to the newly-created role of consumer director in its London office. Walsh will provide strategic counsel to Ketchum’s consumer brands in London and assume responsibility for growing Ketchum’s consumer client […]
Mark Hollinshead, a former board director of LSE-listed media giant Trinity Mirror plc, is to launch a Scottish public relations and strategic communications agency headquartered in Glasgow. Hollicom will launch officially on 1 June, 2017 at a grand opening party held at 200 St Vincent Street. The event will be backed by Hollicom supporters Jack […]