State Street appoints EMEA PR manager
Financial services group State Street has hired Citigate’s Lauren Willington as EMEA PR manager. Willington will be part of an in-house PR team of four and report to Noreen [...]
Finsbury and Hering Schuppener form partnership
WPP-owned financial PR groups Finsbury and Hering Schuppener have formed a strategic partnership. Under a unified brand entity, the partnership will offer a global platform [...]
60 seconds with Tom Blackwell, EM
Tom Blackwell, CEO at EM, on why there is no such thing as a ‘dull mandate’ in Russia, his admiration for Alibaba’s Jack Ma and the challenge of finding the [...]
World Retail Congress: What PRs need to know
This week’s World Retail Congress (12-14 April) emphasised the need for retailers to create an all-encompassing experience for consumers as global sales slow and brand [...]
Ogilvy’s Lara Leventhal joins Spider PR as MD
Lara Leventhal, Ogilvy PR’s deputy MD, has left the WPP-owned agency to take on the newly-created role of MD at Spider PR. Leventhal (pictured left) joins Spider after an [...]
Chandos Communications names Teresa Wincrantz partner
Chandos Communications, the Havas backed financial PR agency, has promoted Teresa Wincrantz to Partner. Wincrantz co-founded the firm with Louise Tingström, Chandos’ [...]
Web-building platform Weebly hands UK brief to W
Weebly, a Silicon Valley-based web-building platform forecast to hit a $1bn valuation in 2016, has appointed W as its UK comms agency, as it looks to enhance its presence in [...]
Yellow Jersey wins Videojug brief
Yellow Jersey PR has been retained by Videojug, the digital publisher of consumer and corporate videos. The independent business comms agency will develop and implement B2B [...]
Instinctif Partners expands US presence
Instinctif Partners, an international business comms consultancy, has expanded its presence in the US with three senior hires in its New York and San Francisco offices. In San [...]
Lloyds Banking Group appoints Grayling
Grayling has been appointed by Lloyds Banking Group to support its public affairs engagement across the UK. The agency will focus to support Lloyds in the delivery of its [...]
Ruder Finn hires Brands2Life’s Robin Grainger
Ruder Finn has brought in Brands2Life’s Robin Grainger to take on the newly-created role of director of connected comms. Grainger, who will be based in Ruder Finn’s [...]
What the Panama Papers leak teaches communicators
Jonathan Jordan, Founder and Senior Partner at corporate affairs advisory firm Sermelo, says the high profile revelations and the ensuing media frenzy surrounding ‘The [...]
Newgate Communications advises Blue Prism IPO
Financial media relations group Newgate Communications is advising software company Blue Prism following its IPO on AIM last month. The Newgate team, which advised Blue Prism [...]
RBS appoints Blue Rubicon
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has briefed Blue Rubicon to lead on its “reputation turnaround”. RBS’ chief marketing officer, David Wheldon, confirmed the [...]
London City Airport enhances comms team
London City Airport has strengthened its comms team with the appointment of the Department for Transport’s Andrew Scott as PR Manager, as the airport develops plans for [...]
OTMPC appoints Hills Balfour
Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation (OTMPC) has appointed tourism firm Hills Balfour to manage its trade relations, consumer marketing and PR strategy in the UK [...]
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 [...]
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