Barri Rafferty named Ketchum president
Barri Friedman Rafferty assumes the title from current Ketchum president and CEO Rob Flaherty, who becomes chairman and CEO. Rafferty, who joined Ketchum in 1994, has led its [...]
Rain to launch new “home wellbeing” brand
New luxury “home wellbeing” brand TINCTURE has appointed Rain Communications to handle its UK launch, which is set for October 2016. Founded by sisters Anastasia [...]
Tesco appoints group comms director
Tesco has appointed Coca Cola’s Jane Lawrie to its executive committee as group comms director. She will join the retailer on 10 October 2016. Lawrie has more than 25 years’ [...]
Redleaf appointed by LyteSpark
Cloud-based video conferencing platform, LyteSpark, has appointed Redleaf Communications to deliver its comms brief. Rishi Banerjee, senior account manager at Redleaf [...]
Smithfield supports Dragon Capital listing
Smithfield, the financial PR consultancy, supported Dragon Capital, a Vietnam-focused financial institution, as it listed its flagship fund on the London Stock Exchange [...]
Virgo Health makes digital and design hires
Virgo Health, the Golin partner and healthcare communications firm, has appointed Nicole Burns as social strategist and Paul Andrews as head of design. Both Burns and Andrews [...]
Splendid promotes Niki Hunter-Ekins to MD
Niki Hunter-Ekins, previously operations director at Splendid Communications, has been promoted to MD and head of client partnerships, 11 years after joining the company. [...]
Richard Dutton named CMO at Engine
Engine, which includes PR firms MHP and Mischief amongst its roster, has brought in Leo Burnett’s Richard Dutton as its new chief marketing officer. Dutton will move into the [...]
British American Tobacco appoints Lucinda Kemeny to new comms role
British American Tobacco (BAT) has hired Lucinda Kemeny as head of communications, a newly-created role in its Next Generation Products division. Kemeny joins BAT from FTI [...]
PortAventura hands international brief to Weber Shandwick
Weber Shandwick has been named as the international PR agency for PortAventura World Parks & Resort – one of Europe’s largest holiday and family entertainment [...]
Hyperdrive Innovation gives Redleaf corporate brief
Engineering company Hyperdrive Innovation has appointed Redleaf Communications as its corporate PR agency. Redleaf’s associate director Charlie Geller and Helena [...]
lastminute.com Group hires firstlight for Travel People brief
firstlight has been appointed to handle a pan-European PR programme for the Travel People, a newly-launched media business from lastminute.com Group. The Travel People aims to [...]
Stationery shop Paperchase briefs Stir PR
Lifestyle agency Stir PR has been chosen by stationery shop Paperchase to promote its portfolio of lifestyle brands, with two campaigns set to take place over the summer. The [...]
M&C Saatchi PR’s Rik Salmon joins John Doe Communications
John Doe Communications has brought in M&C Saatchi PR’s Rik Salmon as an associate director, with a brief to lead some of the agency’s biggest consumer and lifestyle [...]
Frontier Developments retains Tulchan
Tulchan Communications has been retained to provide financial PR services for Frontier Developments, the British video game developer. Frontier, which was founded in 1994 by [...]
The Gorkana Weekly Industry News Brief: 9 – 15 July 2016
Missed out on this week’s PR News? Get your handy round-up of the essential highlights of PR and media stories, features and events content over the last seven days on Gorkana [...]
Chargifi hires Launch PR to enhance its profile
Wireless charging service Chargifi has hired Launch PR to help achieve its ambitious expansion plans, following a three-way pitch. Chargifi was launched by 27-year-old Dan [...]
Forklift business Yale EMH appoints Sine Qua Non
Sine Qua Non (SQN) has been appointed by Yale Europe Materials Handling to lead its PR in the EMEA region. Chris Ritchie, SQN managing director, and director of PR and [...]