New PR lead for energy provider npower
Energy provider npower has promoted its senior PR manager (consumer), Zoe Melarkey, to head of PR. Melarkey has been at npower since 2005. She started off her career at [...]
Engine launches on-site agency NuFu with Oliver’s Sam Broster
Engine has launched a new on-site agency called NuFu in response to increasing client demand for “always-on content and design capability”. The new offer will be [...]
Clarion wins UK PR brief from Electrolux Group
Electrolux Group, which includes home appliance brands Electrolux, AEG and Zanussi, has appointed Clarion Communications as its UK consumer and trade PR agency. The main focus [...]
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Your bitesize update on the latest People News and Moves featured on Gorkana News: LEWIS appoints Daniel Cohen to senior vice president LEWIS has appointed Grayling’s Daniel [...]
Eulogy launches events and experiential service
Eulogy is launching an events and experiential offering to cater for the fast-growing “experience economy”. Cally Sheard, associate director, will lead a team of specialists [...]
Half of charities unclear on Lobbying Act election restrictions
Less than one in five charities and not-for-profit organisations understand the restrictions imposed on campaigning during the General Election, according to research from [...]
FleishmanHillard Fishburn promotes Steph Bailey to MD
FleishmanHillard Fishburn has promoted Steph Bailey to MD and hired another senior director and partner, Michael Hartt. Bailey is now the managing director of the [...]
Teneo Blue Rubicon’s Jon Priestley joins FTI Consulting’s digital practice
FTI Consulting has appointed Jon Priestley as managing director of its digital practice to spearhead new initiatives across the business. Previously Priestley was associate [...]
Hotwire joins UK initiative to grow flexible jobs market
Hotwire has teamed up with recruitment firm Timewise to join its Hire Me My Way campaign, an initiative that aims to increase UK jobs that are advertised as open to flexible [...]
Ogilvy PR’s Adam Powell joins Fourtold as MD
Fourtold has appointed Adam Powell as MD with a brief to drive UK growth and build on the consultancy’s rapid expansion in Brussels. Powell was formerly head of corporate and [...]
Storyful and Weber Shandwick launch a content service for corporate communicators
Storyful, the social news and video validation company, and Weber Shandwick have partnered to develop Cognitive Context, a digital intelligence service. As part of the joint [...]
GK Strategy and sister agency onefourzero hire Justin Ash as chairman
GK Strategy and sister agency onefourzero have appointed Oasis Dental Care’s Justin Ash as its new chairman. Current CEO Emily Wallace and onefourzero MD Fleur Hicks will [...]
Ultimate Products appoints Powerscourt
Ultimate Products, the owner, manager, designer and developer of a range of value-focused consumer goods brands, has appointed Powerscourt as its UK financial and corporate PR [...]
Former Sky comms director Julian Eccles joins Travelport as VP for PR and corporate communications
Travel commerce platform Travelport has appointed former Sky communications director Julian Eccles as vice president for PR and corporate communications. Eccles replaces Kate [...]
Angus Energy appoints Abchurch
Angus Energy has hired Abchurch as its retained financial and corporate communications adviser. Senior partner Tim Thompson will lead the Abchurch team. Angus listed on AIM in [...]
Quill PR appointed by British Empire Trust PLC
Quill PR has been appointed by the £977 million British Empire Trust PLC as its retained media relations consultancy with immediate effect. As part of its brief, Quill will [...]
Beattie hires B&Q’s Fflur Sheppard
Beattie has hired B&Q’s Fflur Sheppard to its corporate, B2B and crisis management team as associate director. The agency has 18 corporate, B2B and crisis specialists [...]
Loyalty specialist Paytronix appoints Milk & Honey PR
Corporate brand agency Milk & Honey PR has been appointed by Paytronix to launch its UK operations as the company expands globally. Milk & Honey PR is responsible for [...]