Bedroom furniture retailer Feather & Black has appointed Porta Communications sister agencies Publicasity and Thirteen Communications to handle its consumer, trade and corporate PR, following a competitive pitch. Previously known as the Iron Bed Company, the business re-branded to Feather & Black in 2004 and has been led by MD Daniel Wade since March 2013. […]
Houston PR has hired Kate Hoare as an account director in its London office as it develops its capital markets communications offer. Hoare joins the agency from a client director role at Hudson Sandler, where she advised listed businesses, with a particular focus on leisure, retail, consumer and the industrial goods sector. Hoare said: “The team […]
For a pro bono campaign project, Frame PR capitalised on a visit that George Clooney made to a shop run by, and for, homeless people. The visit resulted in a 20% increase in sales and an upturn in donations that would provide homeless people with free meals on Christmas Day and for the rest of 2016. Campaign […]
Porta Communications, the international communications group, has announced a series of changes to its board and management team, including the appointment of Steffan Williams as CEO. Williams, PRCA chairman and former group managing director, is now CEO at Porta; David Wright, previously chief executive, is now executive chairman; Bob Morton has stepped down from the board […]
New luxury charter jet company Volanteus has handed a full marketing brief to PMW Communications, which will include PR activity. Volanteus provides charter jet services that it claims are entirely bespoke and personalised to each client, including access todestinations and journeys that “rival charter companies are unable to offer”. PMW Communications’ remit will include a […]
Marketing comms agency Cogent Elliott has hired Bruce Hutton as group chief executive and Francis Maude as non-executive chairman. Hutton replaces Mike Phillipson, who recently left the agency after more than four years as chief executive. Hutton spent the last three years on several food-based ventures, including his own brewing company. Prior to that he held […]
Murray Chalmers PR has won PR briefs for the Beautycon Festival London, Big Apple Brixton and the BRITs Icon Awards. The agency has also retained its PR brief for the NME Awards for 2017. Beautycon Festival London will return to Kensington Olympia on December 3 2016, offering visitors the opportunity to meet their favourite YouTubers […]
Kelly Wilks, acting editor at Girl Talk & Girl Talk Art, talks about producing content for pre-teen girls’ magazines, and how they fulfil a role as a ‘favourite big sister’ to their young readers. What do you love most about working in pre-teen magazines? Quite simply, I love our readers. They’re still at an age where they are very keen […]
Your bitesize update on the latest agency news from Gorkana this week: Triple S Group, the management group for Wayne Rooney, has appointed the FA’s former head of media, Mark Whittle, as MD of its newly-formed PR company, Triple S Communications. Triple S Communications will provide PR and media solutions for a range of “high-profile” individuals, […]
Your bitesize update on the latest People News and Moves featured this week on Gorkana: Corporate PR agency Rostrum has hired Karen Clark as an account manager and Chloe Brown and Gayle Tupaz as account executives across its corporate and professional services teams. Global social media agency We Are Social has brought in Adjust Your Set’s […]