Lankester to lead Ruder Finn Reputation & Risk Management Practice
Ruder Finn has formed a new Reputation & Risk Management Practice. The practice will be led by Charles Lankester, who is promoted to executive vice president, global [...]
This week’s top trending features on Gorkana News
Your bitesize update on the best PR opinion, interviews, events and insights on Gorkana News this week: Event: Media Briefing with The Economist and The Economist Films At an [...]
Good Relations appoints Rob Lester as head of crisis
Hill+Knowlton Strategies’ Rob Lester has joined Good Relations to lead the agency’s issues and crisis management offering. Lester was previously an associate director at H+K, [...]
Alan Parker joins Brands2Life
Brands2Life has named Alan Parker, former deputy MD of ad agency MullenLowe, as its MD, digital. Parker first joined MullenLowe in 2013 as MD, digital, before being named [...]
Weber Shandwick names creative director
Weber Shandwick UK has brought in Indy Selvarajah from ad agency Brothers & Sisters as its new creative director. Based in the agency’s London office, Selvarajah (pictured [...]
Sohn London Investment Conference partners with Maitland
Maitland has been appointed communications partner for the fifth Sohn London Investment Conference, taking place this December. Led by associate partner Seda Ambartsumian, the [...]
Hogg Robinson Group hires FTI Consulting
International corporate services company, Hogg Robinson Group plc, has appointed FTI Consulting as its retained financial and corporate communications adviser. The FTI team [...]
Lombard International hires group marketing and comms director
Lombard International Assurance, the global leader in wealth structuring solutions for the high-net -worth market, has appointed James Gatoff to the new role of group [...]
Webgains appoints Rooster
International performance marketing group Webgains has appointed Rooster to be its first PR agency. Following the announcement of its new CEO, Richard Dennys, Webgains has [...]
FTI Consulting wins Mediclinic International plc
Mediclinic, the FTSE 100 international private healthcare group, has appointed FTI Consulting as its retained financial communications adviser. Deborah Scott, deputy head of [...]
Cision launches new Cision Communications Cloud™ for the next era of media and communication
Cision has announced the launch of its new integrated platform, the Cision Communications Cloud™ Platform, to give marketers and communicators the power to make intelligent, [...]
Birmingham City Council property team appoints Gough Bailey Wright
Gough Bailey Wright will support Birmingham City Council as it promotes a new development in the city centre. The Midlands-based communications agency has been briefed to [...]
Opinion: PR can address lack of insight in B2B
Richard Fogg, CEO at CCgroup, talks about the lack of insight in B2B PR when compared with its consumer counterpart. PR is a ‘science’, he says, and can provide [...]
Energy firm launches offshore wind farm project with Abchurch
Energy firm Enterprize Energy Pte Ltd has launched its first offshore wind farm project in the Taiwan Strait. It is also considering a London listing in the near future. The [...]
Maritim Hotels hands UK PR brief to Clareville Communications
Germany’s largest owner-managed hotel group, Maritim Hotels, has appointed Clareville Communications to handle its UK PR activity. Maritim has 34 properties across Germany, as [...]
Gorkana Executive Club: Transparency, technology and flexible working will boost PR gender balance and diversity
More transparency over pay bands, better use of technology and flexibility in working patterns and practices were just some of the solutions suggested to encourage gender [...]
Will AI have greater impact on comms than social?
Weber Shandwick’s report AI-Ready or Not: Artificial Intelligence here we come!, released this week, shows that top global marketers believe AI will have an even bigger impact [...]
MHP advises Luceco for main market IPO and beyond
MHP Communications has been appointed to advise Luceco, the manufacturer and distributor of LED lighting product and wiring accessories. The agency will advise on Luceco on [...]