Marketing, tech and healthcare M&A adviser, Results International has compiled research that shows sustained M&A activity in the PR industry for the first half of 2016. The analysis shows that there were 36 deals in total, six more than during the same period in 2015, and more than a quarter of the activity (28%) involved […]
Online dating platform eHarmony.co.uk has appointed LighterLife UK’s Rachael Lloyd as senior PR and comms manager. eHarmony, which first launched in the US in 2000, entered the UK market in 2008 with a vision to “create more lasting love in the world”. It claims to use a “scientific compatibility matching system” to match members on 29 […]
Richard Branson’s former comms director, Paul Charles, has launched a new travel PR agency, The PC Agency, and bought travel consultancy Angel Publicity, with its founder, Emma Cripwell, taking the helm as MD. Charles created The PC Agency after co-founding his previous agency, PCC, with Julia Perowne in 2011, having previously worked with her at […]
Rede Partners, an independent fundraising advisory business for the private equity industry, has appointed Instinctif Partners as its retained corporate PR adviser. Instintif Partners will support Rede Partners as it continues to raise its profile among the private equity and investment communities. The proposition will include media relations, thought leadership, digital communications and strategic marketing […]
Effie Kanyua, comms director for London Lifestyle at Bauer Media, on how she battled her way into the BBC to launch her media career, the best creative partnership she’s worked on, which featured Craig David, helping to lobby for fair rent and gender pay equality and why she thinks journalists can smell fear in a pitch. Before […]
Pharmaceutical company, Verseon Corporation, has appointed Buchanan as the group’s financial PR and investor relations adviser. The account will be led by Buchanan partner, Henry Harrison-Topham, and will be supported by Mark Court, also a partner, account director Sophie Cowles and account manager Stephanie Watson. Harrison-Topham, said: “The Buchanan team is really pleased to have […]
Adviser Rankings Ltd, a financial data publisher, has revealed its quarterly AIM Advisers Rankings Guide. The lists rank professional services firms according to the number of AIM-listed clients they service. FTI Consulting retained top position in the Total AIM Clients list with 69 clients, five more than last quarter. In the same list, Buchanan moved up […]
Way To Blue has brought in Edelman’s Claire Slight as group digital and social director, as part of a major restructure that will create a new specialist global team across the company’s offices in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and across Europe. Slight has worked with Edelman Digital over the past two and a half […]
Instinctif Partners has appointed Louisa Moreton as engagement director to its global engagement practice. Moreton joins from MSLGroup, where she was managing director of its UK employee practice and has worked in several engagement and talent consultancy roles across the Omnicom group. Prior to that, Moreton worked for the UK government’s marketing and communications agency, […]
Amanda Cumine has joined First Utility as corporate communications director. The gas and electricity supplier has also hired a new head of public affairs, Tara Singh. Cumine joins from a European corporate comms director role at Lastminute.com, while Singh has been working on Zac Goldsmith’s mayoral campaign and at Number 10 as an energy and […]