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 […]
Electric truck company Tevva Motors selects Nobull Communications for PR, social and digital work
Nobull Communications has been appointed by electric truck business Tevva Motors as its PR, social and digital agency to drive the company’s next round of investment. Nobull [...]
Capital Access Group wins accounts for aircraft leasing company Avation and animal pharma brand Eco Animal Health Group
Investor relations specialist Capital Access Group has won briefs to work with commercial passenger aircraft leasing company Avation and animal pharmaceuticals developer Eco [...]
Ryanair recruits Uber’s Cristian Samoilovich to newly-created public affairs lead role
Ryanair has hired Uber’s Cristian Samoilovich as its first head of public affairs as the airline continues “to work with the EU to increase the competitiveness of [...]
Iranian bank Turquoise Partners appoints Tancredi as corporate adviser to provide international PR support
Iranian investment bank Turquoise Partners has appointed financial comms agency Tancredi as its corporate communications adviser. Tancredi will provide all corporate and [...]
Rostrum wins pitch to advise maritime security specialist MAST on international PR strategy
Corporate PR and comms agency Rostrum has been appointed to advise global security provider Maritime Asset and Security Training (MAST) on its international PR strategy. [...]
How brands can adapt a successful food and drink PR strategy in the wake of the Government’s latest healthy eating push
Food and drink brands, particularly those aimed at children, are in the spotlight for what they put in their products and how they market them to the public. With the [...]
Headland Consultancy brings in Fishburn’s Del Jones
Independent financial and corporate comms agency Headland has hired Del Jones as an associate director. Jones led the financial practice at Fishburn. Previously, he had been [...]
Case Study: Positive Living Around the World
Find out how Threepipe launched a social media campaign to raise the profile of Standard Chartered Bank’s Positive Living HIV/AIDS education programme with the help of [...]
MHP Communications promotes trio including former News of the World political editor Ian Kirby who becomes corporate affairs MD
MHP has promoted Ian Kirby to a managing director role within its corporate affairs practice and has made Christian Pickel and Simon Hockridge directors within its financial [...]
Redwood Consulting wins PR brief for The Gates shopping centre in Durham and remit to develop brand vision for Bicester
Redwood Consulting has been hired by real estate fund manager Clearbell Capital to deliver a comms campaign for The Gates shopping centre in Durham. It has also been appointed [...]
Behind the Headlines with CubanEight’s Sian Gaskell
Sian Gaskell, MD of CubanEight, on cutting her teeth at Channel 4, the mark of campaign success and her first challenging photoshoot. Before I reach the office in the morning, [...]
MRM wins pitch to raise the profile of employee benefit consultant Goddard Perry
Financial services PR agency MRM has been appointed to raise the profile of employee benefit consultant and third-party administrator Goddard Perry. Associate director, Mark [...]
Population data analytics firm Trendit hands retained brief to Yellow Jersey for first listing of 2016
Trendit, which uses data from mobile phones to monitor the movement of people, pedestrian footfall and other urban trends, including shopping habits, has hired Yellow Jersey [...]
Manchester Airport Group recruits public affairs specialist Graeme Elliott from Heathrow
Manchester Airport Group (MAG), which operates UK airports at Manchester, Stansted, East Midlands and Bournemouth, has appointed Graeme Elliott as group public affairs [...]
60 seconds with Christina Sandkühler, LaSalle Investment Management
Christina Sandkühler, EMEA, head of corporate communications at LaSalle Investment Management, on the value of creativity in PR, why there should be appreciation of the power [...]
Jargon PR wins pitch to raise international awareness of wireless charging provider Chargifi
Jargon PR has been appointed by the wireless charging provider Chargifi to drive brand awareness throughout Europe and North America. The agency’s win will see the team [...]
Skipton Building Society appoints Hill+Knowlton Strategies for PR support
Skipton Building Society, the UK’s fourth largest building society by size of membership, has hired H+K Strategies’ London team following a competitive pitch [...]
Commercial real estate adviser Colliers International hires Lauren Joselyn and Ada Taraszewska
Colliers International has strengthened its UK comms team with the hires of Lauren Joselyn and Ada Taraszewska as PR managers from Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) and DTZ/Cushman [...]