City Year UK, a leading youth social action charity, has appointed Stand Agency to increase its profile across national and regional media, and support its growth targets. City Year UK aims to challenge 18 to 25-year-olds to tackle educational inequality through a year of full-time voluntary service. As mentors, tutors and role models in […]
Professional services firm KPMG has appointed Zoe Sheppard as head of its press office. She replaces Erfan Hussain who has joined Accenture. Sheppard joined KPMG in 2011, and most recently led the PR for its tax, risk consultancy and management consultancy practices. She has more than ten years of PR experience and, as head of KPMG’s press […]
Grifco PR has launched a paid PR internship programme and, from Monday, is on the hunt for up to six “passionate and enthusiastic” interns to join the London-based luxury travel and lifestyle PR agency. Successful candidates will be invited to undertake a three-month programme, where they will learn a variety of PR skills, including how […]
Interactive Investor has appointed Temple Bar Advisory (TBA) to support its acquisition of TD Direct Investing. The acquisition, financed by J.C. Flowers & Co. will create the UK’s second largest online broker, with over 300,000 customer relationships and assets under administration (AUA) of £18bn. The TBA team is made up of partners Tom Allison and Ed Orlebar, […]
Your bitesize update on Gorkana News’ features highlights from this week, including opinions, news analyses, event write-ups and insights: Gorkana Meets: The Pool In 2015, Sam Baker and Lauren Laverne, founders of The Pool, revealed new multi-media platform for women “too busy to browse” at a Gorkana media briefing. A year later, Baker says the platform […]
Facebook has launched a version of its app and website aimed at businesses named Workplace. As the tool contends with popular office apps such as Slack, Yammer and bespoke business systems, what does this mean for PR and can Facebook lead the way in internal comms? There’s a new kid on the block for internal […]
SOMPO, a Japanese insurance business, has instructed its retained agency Newgate Communications to provide communications advice around the proposed $6.3bn (£4bn) acquisition of specialist insurer Endurance. Steffan Williams, Newgate group managing director, senior partner Charlie Chichester and associate partner Clotilde Gros are leading on the acquisition brief, which involves the consultancy’s financial, corporate and public affairs divisions. Endurance Speciality Holdings […]
Yesterday (12 October), Yellow Jersey PR successfully advised Boston International Holdings (BIH) on its admission to trading on the London Stock Exchange. The Yellow Jersey team consists of director Charles Goodwin, consultant Joe Burgess and junior consultant Josh Cole. BIH’s US management team is targeting acquisitions and consolidation opportunities in the highly fragmented Forex (FX) market. Following […]
The Association of Financial Mutuals (AFM) has brought in elephant communications to run a press office for its annual conference, held earlier this week in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the event, the elephant team conducted feature interviews with members, prepared broadcast media content, developed a photo library and supported social media engagement. The conference, which ran across two-days (10-11 October), tackled […]
Victoria Cross, managing partner at Instinctif Partners, argues that preparation for a crisis relies on collaborative communications. I chaired a panel debate recently for a room of technical product quality and safety experts on ‘Effective crisis communication’, and it got me thinking… How do we explain the real importance of crisis communication to those who think […]