Rebecca Smith, former medical editor for the Daily Telegraph, has joined the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as head of media. Smith was medical editor at the Daily Telegraph for seven years before leaving in December 2014 to set up her own consulting business, providing strategic advice to pharma and consumer PR […]
Travelex has appointed Hotwire its lead global PR, creative and content agency, as the foreign exchange specialist looks to enhance consumer engagement around its brand and products ahead of its 40th anniversary this year. It appointed Hotwire to work across the UK, Germany, Netherlands and US, with the UK office acting as the central hub for the […]
Lucy Cleland, editor of luxury interiors and lifestyle magazine Country & Town House, talks to Gorkana‘s Ben Spencer about how her readers appreciate the good things in life, the importance and high quality of the magazine’s supplement series and the difference between “good” and “not so good” PRs. Country & Town House is a luxury interiors and lifestyle magazine covering […]
Global PR firm, Weber Shandwick, has launched the Gender Forward Pioneer (GFP) Index which reveals that 10.9 per cent of senior executives in the world’s 500 largest companies are women. The GFP report aims to measure the percentage of women in senior management positions at Fortune Global 500 companies. None of these top companies has an equal […]
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has appointed BBC political journalist, Louise Stewart, as head of its media and communications. Stewart joins FSB as the organisation creates a new senior staff line-up. In addition, Craig Beaumont has been promoted to head of external affairs, UK and will report to COO Julie Lilley. Mike Cherry, policy […]
The Champagne Tour Co. has appointed travel and lifestyle agency Turtle to launch the brand to UK media. The Champagne Tour Co. wants to attract more British clients to the Champagne region of France, where it offers bespoke planned private visits to artisan grower-producers, as well as access to cellars not open to the general public. Larry Davis, the brand’s […]
London-based creative technology agency Manifesto has appointed corporate PR agency, Rostrum, to help raise the agency’s profile within the health, technology and third sectors. Rostrum will handle Manifesto’s media relations and push the agency as a leading voice on industry issues, including digital disruption and customer engagement. Manifesto has expertise in the charity, technology and health […]
Dayuse.com, a French website offering hotel rooms by the hour during the day, has brought in Golley Slater PR to handle its UK consumer and corporate PR. MD Eileen Stretton will head up the Golley Slater team, which has been briefed to raise the profile of the business and promote the concept of out-of-hours room booking. The agency plans to create […]
Aspectus, a global communications agency serving the energy, engineering, financial and services sectors, has opened an office in Aberdeen to support its growing oil and gas client base. Laura Illey will lead the Aberdeen team as head of oil and gas. Illey has been promoted from her former role as account director of oil and gas. […]
Golin has been chosen to handle the UK launch of razor manufacturer Dorco and promote its new subscription service. Dorco, which launched in South Korea in 1955, provides shaving products to customers in more than 130 countries. Razors by Dorco launched in the UK market in July 2015. It uses the UK as its European […]