Murdo Mathewson launches Ginger Dog Comms
Andy Giles Associates partner and former tech journalist Murdo Mathewson has launched a new Hove-based consumer and B2B comms agency called Ginger Dog Comms, specialising in [...]
Redleaf appoints three managing directors
Redleaf Communications has promoted Rebecca Sanders-Hewett, Charlie Ansdell and Henry Columbine to managing director. Sanders-Hewett heads up the capital markets team, which [...]
Case Study: WheresTheSticker
When the Food Standards Agency looked to encourage restaurant goers to seek out its green ratings stickers in restaurant windows, Threepipe came up with “thumb [...]
Finsbury and Hering Schuppener selected to guide Bayer through Monsanto bid
German life sciences company Bayer has chosen WPP agencies Finsbury and Hering Schuppener to work alongside its retained adviser, Brunswick, on its £42.8 billion ($62 billion) [...]
FTI Consulting hires Fiona Holroyde in public affairs push
Global business advisory firm FTI Consulting has appointed Fiona Holroyde as managing director within its public affairs practice in London. For the past year, Holyroyde has [...]
Pernod Ricard names head of comms and corporate affairs
Pernod Ricard, which includes alcohol brands Absolut Vodka, Beefeater Gin and Jameson Irish Whiskey, has promoted its head of corporate comms, Aurélie Kane, to comms and [...]
Clarion launches Sambazon Açai to UK market
Sambazon, a US-based food company specialising in açai berries, has chosen Clarion Communications to handle its UK consumer and trade PR activity. Sambazon was launched in [...]
Benugo briefs Fleet Street Communications
British food and drink business Benugo has appointed Fleet Street Communications as its retained PR agency. Benugo was founded in 1998 by Ben Warner and brother Hugo Warner in [...]
Manifest to launch “social crowd” platform Crowdmix
New “social crowd” platform Crowdmix has chosen Manifest as its retained comms agency, with a brief to handle the platform’s UK launch this Summer. Crowdmix is a [...]
Behind the Headlines with Stir PR MD Alicia Mellish
Alicia Mellish, MD of Stir PR, on what’s led her to appreciate vacuum packed food, the marker for campaign success and why PR should be seen as the gatekeeper to a [...]
Chesnara appoints FWD for financial communications
UK and Europe-based pensions consolidator, Chesnara, has appointed FWD to handle its financial PR strategy. Chesnara is currently listed at £390 million on the London Stock [...]
Weber Shandwick appoints Shirin Majid as creative director
Shirin Majid has rejoined Weber Shandwick to become creative director, 17 years after starting her PR career at the agency’s Washington, D.C. office. Based in London, Majid [...]
KBC wins three-year PR brief from Travel Alberta
Travel Alberta, the tourism marketing organisation for the Canadian Province, has appointed KBC to handle its travel media relations, social media and consumer marketing in [...]
Red Door’s Kate Aldous joins Lansons to boost health offer
Lansons has enhanced its healthcare team with the appointment of Red Door Unlimited’s Kate Aldous as an associate director. Aldous has been briefed to bolster Lansons’ [...]
VFS Global names comms chief
VFS Global, the world’s largest outsourcing and technology services specialist for governments and diplomatic missions, has appointed Kuoni Group’s Peter Brun to chief [...]
Rentplus hires Instinctif Partners
Instinctif Partners has been appointed as communications advisor to Rentplus following a competitive pitch. Instinctif is set to promote Rentplus’ business which provides [...]
Shooting Star offers PR clinic to Lincolnshire business
PR and marketing agency Shooting Star is offering a morning of free PR “clinics” to Lincolnshire businesses in July 2016. The Lincoln and Bristol-based agency is [...]
St Giles Trust appoints Hume Brophy
St Giles Trust, a charity helping ex-offenders and disadvantaged people to move their lives forward, has appointed Hume Brophy as it expands into healthcare. The charity is [...]