The Financial Times hires Golin
The Financial Times has handed Golin a brand reputation brief, with a focus on digital advertising. The FT has a combined paid print and digital circulation of 780,000. [...]
Falcon Acquisitions Appoints St Brides Partners
Falcon Acquisitions, a media investment firm targeting acquisitions in the mobile, online television and video broadcasting sectors, has appointed investor and financial PR [...]
Boxed Energy appoints Social Communications
Boxed Energy, a specialist heating supplier to the social housing industry, has appointed Sale-based agency Social Communications to handle its PR. The agency will help launch [...]
Brands2Life gets Tetra Pak account
Packaging giant Tetra Pak has appointed Brands2Life to manage its B2B PR and public affairs in the UK on a three-year contract. After a three-stage competitive pitch process, [...]
Blue Rubicon promotes Peter Fitch to MD
Blue Rubicon has promoted Peter Fitch to managing director with immediate effect. He replaces Chris Norton, who recently joined Facebook as EMEA director of comms. Fitch has [...]
Yellow Jersey wins Light Rabbit corporate brief
Corporate and financial media relations specialist Yellow Jersey PR has been retained to handle UK corporate media relations for Light Rabbit. Light Rabbit is a privately [...]
Shortlist for CIPR Excellence Awards announced
Tin Man has been shortlisted for eight CIPR Excellence Awards this year, with Brands2Life nominated seven times, Mischief up for six, and Ketchum and MHP in the running for [...]
60 seconds with David Shriver, Tulchan
David Shriver, managing partner of Tulchan, on challenges for the PR industry, changes in investor communications and what he looks for in employees. What are you reading on [...]
TelcoSwitch hires Spreckley for launch brief
TelcoSwitch, a UK telecoms start-up, has appointed Spreckley to launch its open standards hosted telephony platform with an integrated PR and marketing campaign. The start-up, [...]
Wincanton selects Bray Leino for digital brief
Logistics company Wincanton has hired creative comms agency Bray Leino to support the transformation of its digital assets and redesign its web presence. Bray Leino will aim [...]
Octopus hired to boost UK cybersecurity brand
Nuix, a cybersecurity and risk management company, has brought in Octopus Group to increase brand awareness in the “highly competitive” UK IT market. Octopus was [...]
Champollion hires Nadler as planning lead
Champollion, a public policy communications consultancy, has recruited Conservative political commentator Jo-Anne Nadler to head up its planning comms division. Nadler will [...]
Solar Media partners with Whitehouse for policy support
Solar Media, which publishes trade titles including Clean Energy News and Solar Power Portal, is working with The Whitehouse Consultancy to raise its profile with industry [...]
LJFpr rebrands to Cubed
Manchester-based LJFpr has picked up two briefs to work with recruitment group Rethink and the Institute of Directors (IoD). It has also rebranded to Cubed as it expands its [...]
Citigate Manchester hires SkyParlour’s Pears
Citigate Dewe Rogerson‘s Manchester office has brought in Matthew Pears, formerly of marketing and PR firm SkyParlour, as an associate director. Pears will work on a [...]
Cohn & Wolfe’s Price joins firstlight
Independent comms agency firstlight has expanded its team with six hires, including Anna Price who joins as associate director from Cohn & Wolfe‘s corporate team. [...]
60 seconds with Tim Williamson, Cognito
Tim Willliamson, MD of Cognito‘s APAC region, on the challenges of communicating in different countries, how his journalistic ‘nosiness’ led to a career in [...]
Tangerine picks up telecoms security brief
HAUD, a telecoms security business, has hired Tangerine to increase brand awareness and engage key influencers as part of a global brief. The company works with mobile [...]