LEWIS chosen for Exact’s EMEA brief
LEWIS will provide Exact, a cloud-based business software provider for SMEs, with Europe-wide PR services. LEWIS and Exact aim to increase brand awareness across EMEA, with a [...]
Quintin Keanie returns to MSLGROUP
MSLGROUP has strengthened its UK corporate team through the hiring of Quintin Keanie as associate director. Keanie rejoins Publicis Groupe’s strategic communications agency [...]
BritainThinks expands education practice with new hire
BritainThinks has hired Hannah Kilshaw as an associate director, in order to expand its education practice. Currently, the strategy and insights business works with clients [...]
Just:: Health Communications rebrands as Havas Just::
Following Havas’ acquisition of London-based Just:: Health Communications in June 2015, the agency has rebranded to Havas Just::. Havas Just::, which is part of the [...]
Finn Communications opens London office
Leeds-based Finn Communications has officially opened its new London office today. Matt Bourn, who has joined the agency from MWW PR, heads up the new offer. The move is part [...]
MGT hires Tiffany Madison as director of corporate communications
MGT Capital Investments has appointed Tiffany Madison as director of corporate communications. Madison was previously the CEO of d10e, an international disruptive technology [...]
Yellow Jersey PR wins healthcare brand Totally
Yellow Jersey will act as financial PR adviser for Totally Plc, which manages outsourced services for the healthcare sector. Yellow Jersey director, Felicity Winkles, who will [...]
Opinion: Is Brexit re-writing the rules of corporate risk management?
For public relations practitioners, says John Orme, senior partner and counsellor at Porter Novelli, Brexit necessitates careful risk management. Trying to understand who the [...]
Beattie to open offices in Canada
Beattie is opening an office in Canada and claims its international expansion is a reaction to the recent Brexit vote. Laurna Woods, group managing director at Beattie, said: [...]
Hotwire creates specialist health tech team
In response to growth in the health tech sector, Hotwire has launched a new global health tech practice. Brendon Craigie, group CEO at Hotwire, said: “Every day we get the [...]
Avant Homes switches to MHP
Leading UK housebuilder, Avant Homes, has appointed MHP as its new financial PR agency.The team at MHP consists of chief executive of financial at MHP Andrew Jaques, director [...]
Holiday site icelolly.com selects MC2 for B2B brief
Leeds-based holiday comparison site, icelolly.com, has appointed MC2 to develop its marketing communications strategy.The brief requires MC2’s brand and corporate advisory [...]
LEWIS appoints new head of corporate comms
Dan Masser joins LEWIS to head its new corporate communications practice. Masser, who joins from Blue Rubicon, will drive the growth and direction of the agency’s corporate [...]
The Gorkana Weekly Industry News Brief: 18 to 24 June 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 [...]
Corporate Engagement Awards go to Primark, Channel 4, FTI and more
Primark, Channel 4, FTI Consulting were among the winners at this week’s Corporate Engagement Awards 2016. High street retailer Primark won the Grand Prix with its [...]
Italian independent SEC targets UK corporate affairs market
SEC, which claims to be the largest independent advocacy, public relations and integrated communications agency in the Italian market, says it is in negotiations with a London [...]
eBay appoints Porter Novelli to B2B and corporate brief
eBay has appointed Porter Novelli to a Pan-EMEA brief for B2B and corporate external communications. The brief includes executive profiling, issues management and a series of [...]
60 seconds with Kate James, Pearson
Kate James, chief corporate affairs and global marketing officer at Pearson, on why comms pros need a mentor, her recent trip to Jordan and why she regularly reads Racing [...]