The Petersham Hotel hires Custard Communications
Custard Communications has been appointed by The Petersham Hotel in Richmond, Surrey, to deliver a six-month PR contract, following an extensive refurbishment of the hotel’s [...]
PR Case Study: Young’s Gastro Date Night
To help position Young’s Seafood’s Gastro range as the perfect partner to Valentine’s Date Night, Kazoo sent a barbershop quartet to surprise and serenade journalists, [...]
Weber Shandwick enhances creative team
Weber Shandwick London has brought in award-winning creative Janelle Feliciano from digital and social agency Deep Focus. Based in Weber Shandwick’s London office, Feliciano [...]
60 Seconds with Gutenberg’s Harjiv Singh
Harjiv Singh, CEO and founder at Gutenberg, talks about the agency’s rebrand and shift towards a more integrated model, encompassing digital marketing. He says: [...]
Opinion: how PRs and ‘real’ news organisations should tackle fake news
Emma Morton, senior media strategist at Ruder Finn, on how the media industry can move forward from fake news. HOW did fake news leapfrog real stories? By speaking out, [...]
Threepipe launches new spirit enhancer range
Threepipe has been chosen to manage consumer and trade media relations, as well as social campaigns, for new spirit enhancer Merchant’s Heart, which is being brought to market [...]
The Write Angle makes senior hires
Lancashire-based marketing comms agency The Write Angle (TWA) has brought in Sally Fairclough as associate director and Jen Hill as client services director. [...]
Senior Labour official to join Campaign Collective
Nancy Platts, former Labour Party candidate in Brighton Kemptown and currently trade union manager in the office of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, is to become a member of [...]
March 20 – 24: the most read people news on Gorkana News this week
Your bitesize update on the latest people news and moves featured on Gorkana News this week: Hotwire’s Brendon Craigie steps down Hotwire’s group CEO, Brendon [...]
Smoking Gun wins Arriva Buses North West PR brief
Smoking Gun PR has been appointed to handle the PR for Arriva Buses in the North West and Wales. Arriva is one of the largest bus and train transport services organisations in [...]
nextbike hands UK brief to Nathan Rous PR
Nathan Rous PR has been chosen to handle the UK PR for public bike sharing scheme nextbike. The nextbike scheme, which launched in 2004, is based in over 100 cities globally, [...]
Five ways PRs and brands can get ready for Christmas 2017
Christmas may only have taken place three months ago, but savvy retail brands are already planning for their most profitable time of year in 2017, says Courtney Rogers, [...]
Tin Man wins PR brief for Funkin Cocktails
UK cocktail mixer brand Funkin Cocktails has hired creative comms agency Tin Man to launch a new range of cocktail mixers, following a competitive pitch. Funkin, founded in [...]
10 Yetis Digital to launch BettingTips4You and BiggestFreeBets
Online betting tips provider BettingSpin has chosen 10 Yetis Digital to handle its PR, as part of a marketing drive to raise awareness for two of its sites; BettingTips4You [...]
Sony hands retained PR brief to Fever
Sony has appointed Fever as its retained UK PR agency to manage its smartphone and IoT products, following a competitive pitch. The appointment will see Fever work across [...]
Clarion appoints new SAD
Clarion has appointed Cirkle’s Laura Oakley as a senior account director. With 10 years FMCG PR experience, Oakley joins Clarion from Cirkle, where she was an account [...]
Hotwire CEO Brendon Craigie steps down
Hotwire Group CEO Brendon Craigie has announced his resignation to pursue other interests. A successor is expected to be announced in “due course”. In the interim, Hotwire’s [...]
Micro Scooters hires Cow PR
Scooter brand Micro Scooters has appointed Cow PR as its retained UK PR agency, following a four-way pitch. Micro Scooters was founded in Switzerland by Wim Ouboter in 1999, [...]