Convenience store and newsagent operator, McColl’s Retail Group, has hired Headland to lead on its financial and corporate communications, including the acquisition of 298 Co-Op stores, which was announced yesterday. Headland director Lucy Legh and partner Simon Burton lead the team on the account, with support from account manager Robert Walker and account executive Jamie Perriam. Lucy Legh, […]
TransferGo, a digital remittance solution for migrant workers based in London, has chosen 2Sisters PR to promote its brand to Polish people based in the UK. 2Sisters, a Polish PR agency based in London, will also provide TransferGo with media relations in Poland. The agency specialises in promotion to Eastern European Communities both in the […]
Hanover Group has this week launched The Playbook, a new creative comms agency which will be led by Threepipe co-founder and former MD Eddie May. Launch clients include the NFL and the England & Wales Cricket Board. Hanover Group is made up of Hanover London, Hanover Brussels and Multiple, as well as newly-formed The Playbook. […]
Motor Sport editor Damien Smith is departing the magazine to take up an associate director role at automotive PR specialist Influence Associates in mid-September. A journalist and editor in motor racing for 20 years, Smith has been editor of Motor Sport since 2007, running and setting the editorial agenda for the multi-platform title, which was […]
Threepipe has acquired performance marketing agency Spot Digital, as it looks to enhance its natural search and SEO capability. Spot Digital, a technically driven SEO agency, was set up by Tony Thomas in 2014 and works with clients including Jack Wills, L’Occitane and Panasonic. Thomas said: “As a start-up focussing on innovative growth hacking techniques, […]
Clementine Communications has been chosen to handle a 2016/2017 UK PR campaign for fine wine merchant Friarwood. Based in London, Friarwood is both an on and off-trade family-owned company, supplying the UK with wines from Bordeaux, Burgundy and further afield. The company recently expanded its offering to include wines from Canada, Australia and Bulgaria. Clementine […]
The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has appointed Headland to deliver its student acquisition campaign following 2016’s exam results dates. Headland will work on AAT’s annual, multi-channel campaign, targeting 16 to 18-year-old students as they leave school and consider further education options. Nicky Burke, PR manager at AAT, said: “We have run this campaign for […]
Amazon has launched ‘Prime Day’ offers for the second year today (Tuesday), and, as shoppers scope out the best deals among its ranges of tech devices, clothing, health, beauty and toys, Gorkana asks PR pros, what provides better PR value – the e-tailer’s Prime Day or the more widely used concept of Black Friday? Both retail events […]
Fiona Pargeter, head of global PR communications at Jaguar Land Rover, has been named as the leader in the communications category of Autocar magazine’s ‘Great British Women in the Car Industry’ list. In 2009, Pargeter joined JLR as global PR director for Land Rover after working at Ford, Volvo and Nissan. She talks to Gorkana about her experience […]
Speed Communications, part of The Mission Marketing Group, has acquired PR and comms agency The Splash Partnership, expanding its offer into the foodservice and hospitality sectors. The Splash Partnership specialises in the foodservice and hospitality industry and works with clients including Nestlé Professional’s out of home brands (Nescafé / Milano / Maggi / Chef / Toque d’Or), Bidvest Foodservice, apetito, TUCO (The University […]