Cardew Group forges transatlantic partnership
London-based corporate and financial comms adviser Cardew Group has joined forces with New York investor relations firm, Taylor Rafferty, to offer capital markets advice to [...]
Domino’s hands brief to Shine @ The Academy
Domino’s, the world’s leading pizza delivery company, has appointed Shine @ The Academy as its retained consumer PR agency in the UK. Shine @ The Academy, which [...]
DeVries SLAM promotes Pay With A Poem
DeVries SLAM is handling the UK PR for this year’s Pay With A Poem campaign, a global initiative from Viennese coffee roaster Julius Meinl, which celebrates World Poetry [...]
Hainan Airlines seeks European PR agency
Hainan Airlines, China’s fourth largest airline, has issued a tender worth up to €300,000 (£232,000) over 12 months for a European PR agency to provide strategic and creative [...]
innocent hires Taylor Herring for unplugged festival
Taylor Herring has been appointed to handle the PR for the second innocent unplugged festival, which will take place from 28 to 30 May 2016. Set in a “secret forest location” [...]
Attercopia Group buys Label PR
Digital marketing specialist the Attercopia Group has made its first foray into the PR market with the acquisition of Manchester-based PR agency Label PR for an undisclosed [...]
FTSE100 TUI Group brings in Maitland
Travel and tourism multinational TUI Group, which owns the Thomson Airways and Corsair International brands, has appointed Maitland to manage its financial and corporate [...]
Newgate supports £1.27bn Samsonite deal
Newgate Communications is supporting luggage brand Samsonite’s US$1.8 billion (£1.27bn) acquisition of North American luxury travel brand Tumi. The deal was announced [...]
Meet Shares’ editor Daniel Coatsworth
Gorkana has a few final places available at Thursday’s exclusive breakfast briefing with weekly investment magazine Shares‘ editor Daniel Coatsworth. Shares is a [...]
DMA appoints group PR head
Diffusion’s Tim Bond has joined the Direct Marketing Association Group (DMA), a trade association for the marketing industry, as group head of PR. In the role, Bond will [...]
FT hires Sacha Bunatyan to help boost audience reach
The Financial Times has named Sacha Bunatyan as global B2C marketing director, with a brief to grow its subscriptions business and enhance audience development. With more than [...]
Coffin on Cake PR promotes new Lee Cooper range
Coffin on Cake PR has been appointed by British denim label Lee Cooper to manage the global launch of the brands’ premium selvedge denim range, ‘MADE IN ENGLAND’. Produced [...]
State Street’s Botbol joins Legal & General IM
Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), the financial services company’s asset management arm, has hired State Street Corporation’s Nicolette Botbol as a [...]
Costa recruits corporate comms manager
Coffee chain Costa has appointed Thrive PR’s Esme Knight as corporate communications manager. Knight takes responsibility for corporate communications, policy [...]
Richmond Towers to promote The Postal Museum
New London heritage attraction The Postal Museum has appointed Richmond Towers to increase consumer awareness in the lead up to its 2017 opening. When it officially opens in [...]
Morrisons hands product PR brief to Cirkle
Morrisons, the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain, has chosen Cirkle as its product PR agency as part of a planned review of its marketing agencies. Cirkle will be [...]
The Gorkana Weekly Industry News Brief: 27 February to 4 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 [...]
Capital Access Group hires AIM’s Brickles
Investor relations specialist Capital Access Group (CAG) has brought in Simon Brickles, formerly head of AIM at the London Stock Exchange, to chair its newly-launched advisory [...]