Why it’s time for CMOs to embrace PR and comms
What you’re about to read might sound like bad news. But for businesses that arm themselves with the right tools, it actually represents a huge opportunity just waiting to be realised. You see, consumer trust is falling across the board. Global research firm Nielsen reports that consumers now trust print, TV and radio ads less […]
Hollins Communications supports cyber security IPO
Osirium Limited, a cyber security solutions provider, has called upon Hollins Communications to provide support around its IPO having today announced its intention to float. [...]
Secret Cinema briefs Unity
Unity has been appointed by Secret Cinema to handle the launch of its nationwide show, post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later. It will deliver a wide-ranging brief, which [...]
Gough Bailey Wright promotes NYM Railway
Gough Bailey Wright has been appointed by North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) to handle its PR and marketing strategy, as it welcomes the Flying Scotsman to its tracks. The [...]
Shutterstock UK briefs MWW PR
Shutterstock, a global picture and music provider and licensing agency, has brought in MWW PR to provide UK corporate PR support raise awareness for its new products among [...]
The Gorkana Weekly Industry News Brief: 12 to 18 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 [...]
Claremont’s Henry Playfoot wins 2016 Suzy Ferguson Spirit Award
Henry Playfoot, strategy director at Claremont, is this year’s winner of the Suzy Ferguson Spirit Award, having been praised for his ‘strong integrity, principles and ethics’ [...]
Wolfstar promotes Spode Blue Italian 200th anniversary
Wolfstar has been chosen by Portmeirion Group to deliver an integrated comms campaign for the 200th anniversary of its Spode Blue Italian design. The online and social media [...]
PRCA reveals Young PR Lions UK shortlist
Cohn & Wolfe, FleishmanHillard Fishburn, Hotwire, salt and WE Communications have teams on the shortlist for this year’s Young PR Lions UK competition. Six teams, [...]
Yellow Jersey hires Josh Cole
Yellow Jersey has brought in Josh Cole, formerly of venture capital company AD&P, as a consultant. Cole will support director Charles Goodwin in Yellow Jersey‘s [...]
The Academy of Chocolate appoints Amazing PR
Amazing PR has been brought in to handle the PR for non-profit organisation The Academy of Chocolate. It has been briefed to help the Academy raise awareness of the importance [...]
Curzon Cinemas briefs MWW PR
Curzon Cinemas has handed a UK consumer PR brief to MWW PR. MWW PR will work on a project basis to drive awareness of the curated Curzon Home Cinema service, an on-demand [...]
AstraZeneca hires Younger as global corporate affairs lead
AstraZeneca has appointed FTI Consulting’s Jennie Younger as vice president global corporate affairs to lead the pharma giant’s international corporate affairs [...]
Kathryn Sargent hires Street & Co
Street & Co has been appointed to handle press office activity for Kathryn Sargent, as she becomes the first female Master Tailor to open a shop on Savile Row in Mayfair [...]
Investment firm Permira calls in Montfort
Permira, the global investment firm, has hired Montfort Communications as its UK strategic communications adviser. Founded in 1985, Permira advises funds with some €25 billion [...]
LSE hires Cardew to support Deutsche Börse merger
The London Stock Exchange has appointed Cardew Group to provide comms support around its proposed £21bn merger with German stock exchange Deutsche Börse. Cardew’s [...]
New challenger bank Tandem hands six-figure brief to Eulogy
New challenger bank Tandem has appointed Eulogy as its retained PR agency ahead of its launch later this year. Tandem claims to be on a mission to create a “good bank” that [...]
2016 Suzy Spirit Award: Meet the Finalists
With the winner of the 2016 Suzy Ferguson Spirit Award set to be announced tomorrow, find out what makes the five shortlisted candidates stand out from the crowd. The people [...]
Stir PR briefed to launch new parenting website
Lifestyle agency Stir PR has been brought in to promote pregnancy programme Emma’s Diary and help launch new parenting website Families, following a three-way pitch process. [...]