Financial and corporate comms consultancy Headland has appointed Carley Sparrow as associate director, along with another six new consultants. Sparrow joins Headland from Teneo Blue Rubicon, where she led clients including O2, Mondelez and AstraZeneca. She has worked in comms roles for Thames Valley Police and local government. Henry Wallers joins Headland as an account director from […]
Mercieca will manage the social media for the ESF Festival of Football, the UK’s biggest youth football festival. ESF Events has briefed the Camden-based agency to drive awareness among its target audience of families and grassroots football clubs. “Having seen the work Mercieca has delivered for brands including Mitre it was already on our radar,” said Martyn Young, company […]
Instilling newsroom culture into a business will maximise the effectiveness of its corporate communications, the co-founders of corporate comms agency Stampa argued in yesterday’s Cision webinar. James Curtis and Abigail Levene said that every business can follow the lead of brands like Coca-Cola and ING to start treating their comms departments like media organisations. “We believe […]
Independent production companies Hopscotch Films and Mosaic Films have appointed tpr media to promote two BBC Storyville documentaries this summer. Hopscotch Films’ Accidental Anarchist will be broadcast on BBC Four on Sunday 23 July and follows the story of Carne Ross – a diplomat-cum-anarchist who John Le Carré described as “a brave and original thinker and a […]
PR and social media consultancy WPR Agency has appointed Rebecca Williams as consumer director. She will be tasked with expanding the division and devising strategic campaigns that deliver tangible commercial benefits. Williams previously spent 10 years at McCann Birmingham, where she led accounts including Oxfam, Robert Welch and McCarthy & Stone. “Rebecca’s broad range of sector experience across […]
Manchester-based PR agency Roland Dransfield is launching a new consumer division to coincide with its 21st birthday this summer. Adam Moss will lead the division in his new role as head of consumer. He joined Roland Dransfield from Brazen, where he spent nine years and was director of news and creative content. In recent years, […]
Integrated communications agency Carswell Gould has hired Ian Murray and Jen Humm as associate director of media and PR account director, respectively. Murray joins the agency from the Southern Daily Echo, where he enjoyed a 19-year stint as editor, overseeing its print and online editions. He will enhance the agency’s media and influencer connections and […]
Powerscourt advised Tatton Asset Management on its recent admission to AIM, which raised £51.6 million in an oversubscribed institutional placing. Tatton Asset Management was the first financial services firm to float since June’s general election. Its current market capitalisation is £105 million. The Powerscourt team was led by Justin Griffiths, head of financial services, and […]
Hotwire PR has promoted Emma Hazan from managing director to the newly created role of global head of consumer. Working with the consumer teams across the Hotwire offices in EMEA and the US, she will help develop the agency’s consumer business and grow existing clients both locally and internationally. She will also provide strategic support to Hotwire’s […]
Steph McDonald, Ketchum’s sports and entertainment practice director, gives her views on why brands should invest in women’s sports, how PRs can shape the sports conversation – and who will win the UEFA Women’s Euro 2017. Earlier this month, Toni Duggan became the first English footballer to sign for Barcelona since Gary Lineker in 1986. […]