Alex Myers, founder and CEO at Manifest, talks about office moves, international growth and his ambition to have five offices on five continents by 2020. He insists that if you want to run an agency with a winning company culture, it’s essential to hire the right team and work hard on keeping them. What’s your daily routine? […]
Aspectus has promoted PR Week 30 Under 30 member, Laura Iley, to a head of energy role. Aspectus’ energy, oil and gas practice serves more than 20 clients from the agency’s offices in London, Aberdeen and New York. Iley, who was listed as a PR Week 30 Under 30 member this year, joined Aspectus as head […]
Accountant and business adviser BDO LLP has appointed Petal & Co as its retained North West PR agency. The specialist corporate and B2B agency has been briefed to highlight the strength of BDO’s expertise and sector insight across the region, and position it as a leading adviser to the mid-market. Jessica Wilkinson, who founded Petal & Co […]
Sophie Lister, a client director at Hudson Sandler who specialises in corporate storytelling, talks about the value of an employer brand, and shares some tips for engaging staff and sharing that positive message. The term ‘employer brand’ used to be the stuff of blog posts, internal news channels and the occasional CSR story, but is now seen as […]
The BIG Partnership has opened its fifth Scottish office in Dundee – and seventh in the UK – after securing contract wins worth £250,000 in its Manchester base, which it launched two months ago. Its leaders now have sights on winning £150,000 of new business in the first year in Dundee. The BIG Partnership’s clients in […]
Adviser Rankings‘ Financial PR Rankings for Q3 2016 (4 May – 3 August) show that FTI Consulting has added three FTSE 100 clients, as well as two FTSE 250 clients. The firm tops the FTSE 250 list, and Brunswick tops the FTSE 100 client list with 26. FTI also has the highest number of clients in the majority of sectors – ‘Consumer […]
The Smalls, a content marketplace that connects filmmakers with brands, publishers and agencies, has brought in consumer lifestyle PR agency See.Saw to handle the PR for the 11th annual Short Film Festival, which starts on Friday (2 September). Festival highlights include a keynote speech from Jon Drever, executive producer of 2014 Oscar nominated Virunga and […]
Tour operator Red Savannah has handed a European consumer and corporate PR brief to The PC Agency. Established in 2011 by George Morgan-Grenville, Red Savannah claims to offer bespoke tours “underpinned by 21st Century technology”. Its services include “tailor-made” journeys through Australasia, the Indian sub-continent and South-East Asia, safaris and gorilla tracking trips in Africa, […]
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 News. People News Lord Tim Bell has resigned as chairman of Bell Pottinger, 30 years after he founded the agency. He plans to set […]
Hanover has re-appointed Daniel Gilbert as a senior policy adviser, following his 14-month period as a special adviser in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). As a special adviser to the Minister of State for Universities and Science Jo Johnson MP, Gilbert worked on government policy development and comms in the higher education, […]