Opinion: The five essential ingredients for a good CEO-communications director relationship
A good relationship with the CEO is essential for communications directors who want to make themselves heard within their organisation. Kate McFerran, partner at Westbourne [...]
Portland launches Brexit unit
A month on from the UK’s vote to leave Europe, Portland Communications has launched a dedicated Brexit unit to advise its global client base. The team brings together senior [...]
Telecoms firm Toople appoints Redleaf
Redleaf Communications will act as financial, corporate and trade PR adviser to telecommunications service provider Toople. Rebecca Sanders-Hewett, managing director at [...]
Rumpus appointed by paper manufacturer Northwood & WEPA
Manchester PR agency Rumpus has been appointed by household paper manufacturer Northwood & WEPA to drive trade awareness nationally. The brief focuses on the definition of [...]
The PR Office promotes trio
The PR Office has promoted Chris Wilson to account director, and Aaron Bass and James Wright to senior account manager positions. Wilson joined the PR Office from City Road [...]
Redleaf appointed by LyteSpark
Cloud-based video conferencing platform, LyteSpark, has appointed Redleaf Communications to deliver its comms brief. Rishi Banerjee, senior account manager at Redleaf [...]
Virgo Health makes digital and design hires
Virgo Health, the Golin partner and healthcare communications firm, has appointed Nicole Burns as social strategist and Paul Andrews as head of design. Both Burns and Andrews [...]
Hyperdrive Innovation gives Redleaf corporate brief
Engineering company Hyperdrive Innovation has appointed Redleaf Communications as its corporate PR agency. Redleaf’s associate director Charlie Geller and Helena [...]
lastminute.com Group hires firstlight for Travel People brief
firstlight has been appointed to handle a pan-European PR programme for the Travel People, a newly-launched media business from lastminute.com Group. The Travel People aims to [...]
The Gorkana Weekly Industry News Brief: 9 – 15 July 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 Gorkana [...]
ACCA appoints McAdoo as director of brand and corporate reputation
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has appointed Harry McAdoo as director of brand and corporate reputation. McAdoo joins from ICAEW where he was [...]
Headland appointed by retailer McColl’s
Convenience store and newsagent operator, McColl’s Retail Group, has hired Headland to lead on its financial and corporate communications, including the acquisition of 298 [...]
TransferGo chooses 2Sisters PR to target UK’s Polish community
TransferGo, a digital remittance solution for migrant workers based in London, has chosen 2Sisters PR to promote its brand to Polish people based in the UK. 2Sisters, a Polish [...]
Threepipe co-founder Eddie May to lead new creative comms agency The Playbook
Hanover Group has this week launched The Playbook, a new creative comms agency which will be led by Threepipe co-founder and former MD Eddie May. Launch clients include the [...]
AAT appoints Headland for exam results season
The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has appointed Headland to deliver its student acquisition campaign following 2016’s exam results dates. Headland will work on [...]
Newgate Communications appointed by Sompo
Japanese insurance service provider, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdings (Sompo), has appointed Newgate Communications to a combined corporate and financial communications and [...]
60 seconds with Joe Mitton, PLMR
Following a special advisor role at the Office of the Mayor of London, Joe Mitton has taken up a senior consultant position at political lobbying specialist, PLMR. Mitton [...]
Yellow Jersey selected by Canadian Overseas Petroleum
Yellow Jersey has been appointed by Canadian Overseas Petroleum (COPL), a junior oil and gas company, to deliver financial PR services, with a focus on driving awareness and [...]