Champollion, a public policy communications consultancy, has recruited Conservative political commentator Jo-Anne Nadler to head up its planning comms division. Nadler will sit on the company’s board alongside non-executive directors David Hill, former director of comms for Tony Blair, Craig Morley, founder of Challenge, and Ian Wright, director general of the Food and Drink Federation. Her […]
Solar Media, which publishes trade titles including Clean Energy News and Solar Power Portal, is working with The Whitehouse Consultancy to raise its profile with industry leaders in the clean energy sector and help it “engage positively” within the policy environment. The brief asks the agency to use the development of high-profile discussion events at industry conferences to raise the profile of […]
Manchester-based LJFpr has picked up two briefs to work with recruitment group Rethink and the Institute of Directors (IoD). It has also rebranded to Cubed as it expands its services to include content creation. The agency will handle a global PR brief for Rethink, advising on the company’s comms across the UK, Ireland and Asia. Cubed’s brief includes internal and […]
Manulife Asset Management, a fund manager with some $301bn (£211bn) in AUM (assets under management), has brought in FWD as its PR representative for Europe and the UK. FWD’s Gug Kyriacou, Cat Ommanney and Adam Shaw will manage the Manulife brief. They will work alongside Brian Carmichael, MD of public relations at Manulife Asset Management, who is […]
PR, social and content agency Intelligent Conversation has won three health and social care sector briefs from charitable trust Life Leisure, the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care devolution project and the NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group. The agency has been briefed to provide media relations, content marketing and social media support to raise the […]
Well Hello, an independent PR agency set up by WE Communications’ Nick Woods and Cow PR’s Lisa Taylor in February, has been hired by Great Little Grains to launch its new cereal brand Sown & Grown. Great Little Grains was founded in 2015 by former Cereal Partners UK marketing controller Phil Toms and former Weetabix […]
The UK Government Communications Service will host a Government Reception with industry body AMEC at the end of the first day of this year’s AMEC International Summit on Wednesday 15 June. The Reception, which will be hosted by Alex Aiken, executive director of government communications, HM Government UK, will provide a networking opportunity for AMEC […]
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has appointed Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K) to help unite the nation in support of Team GB, as Olympians prepare for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in August. Centred around the campaign of “Bring on the Great,” H+K will launch a five month programme to drive sign ups to the official Team GB […]
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. Pitch Wins Morrisons has named Shine @ The Academy as its retained brand PR agency following a competitive pitch. Sky Betting & Gaming, the […]
In an exclusive Gorkana webinar this week, Maria Darby-Walker, Citigate Dewe Rogerson director, and Tim Metcalfe, Investor Focus Communications‘ co-founder and MD, explained how the changing business world, and other factors, are evolving and expanding the role and remit of the financial PR. Both financial PR agencies and in-house comms operators have a greater sphere of influence and are […]