Champollion hires Nadler as planning lead
Champollion, a public policy communications consultancy, has recruited Conservative political commentator Jo-Anne Nadler to head up its planning comms division. Nadler will [...]
Solar Media partners with Whitehouse for policy support
Solar Media, which publishes trade titles including Clean Energy News and Solar Power Portal, is working with The Whitehouse Consultancy to raise its profile with industry [...]
LJFpr rebrands to Cubed
Manchester-based LJFpr has picked up two briefs to work with recruitment group Rethink and the Institute of Directors (IoD). It has also rebranded to Cubed as it expands its [...]
Manulife Asset Management briefs FWD PR
Manulife Asset Management, a fund manager with some $301bn (£211bn) in AUM (assets under management), has brought in FWD as its PR representative for Europe and the UK. [...]
Three wins for Intelligent Conversation
PR, social and content agency Intelligent Conversation has won three health and social care sector briefs from charitable trust Life Leisure, the Greater Manchester Health and [...]
Well Hello wins Sown & Grown
Well Hello, an independent PR agency set up by WE Communications’ Nick Woods and Cow PR’s Lisa Taylor in February, has been hired by Great Little Grains to launch its new [...]
AMEC to hold Government Reception at June Summit
The UK Government Communications Service will host a Government Reception with industry body AMEC at the end of the first day of this year’s AMEC International Summit on [...]
H+K promotes Team GB ahead of Rio Olympics
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has appointed Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K) to help unite the nation in support of Team GB, as Olympians prepare for the Rio 2016 [...]
The Gorkana Weekly Industry News Brief: 19 to 24 March 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 [...]
How the role of the financial PR has grown
In an exclusive Gorkana webinar this week, Maria Darby-Walker, Citigate Dewe Rogerson director, and Tim Metcalfe, Investor Focus Communications‘ co-founder and MD, [...]
Gorkana meets…Jelle Maasbach and BNR Nieuwsradio
You studied media, information and communications at university and wrote your dissertation on economic infographics. How, and why, did you decide to specialise in financial [...]
Beam Suntory awards global brief to LDR CREATIVE
Beam Suntory, the world’s third largest premium spirits company, has appointed LDR CREATIVE to enhance awareness of its Global Travel Retail brand portfolio and support [...]
Refresh briefed to find best ‘Window with a View’
Manchester PR agency Refresh PR has been appointed by the Glass and Glazing Federation (GGF) to create a national campaign to discover Britain’s best ‘Window with a View’. [...]
Christopher Ward briefs PHA Media
London PR agency PHA Media has been chosen by luxury men’s watch brand Christopher Ward to handle its UK PR. Christopher Ward was established in 2004 by Mike France, [...]
VSC launches financial PR unit
Victoria Sheridan Consulting (VSC) has launched a financial PR division after handling the comms around wealth manager Harwood Wealth’s IPO announcement earlier this [...]
UK’s Young PR Lions winners named
Hotwire London’s Matt Watson and Paul Stollery have won the 2016 UK Young Lions PR competition. Six teams, including two from Hotwire, were shortlisted from 41 entries to win [...]
CNC makes brace of London promotions
International strategic communications firm CNC has promoted former Independent on Sunday deputy business editor Simon Evans to director and Callum Laidlaw to senior [...]
Cohn & Wolfe appoints UK consumer marketing lead
Global comms agency Cohn & Wolfe has named Diffusion’s Tom Malcolm as its new MD of consumer marketing for the UK. Malcolm has been briefed to enhance the growth of the [...]