Taylor Herring has been appointed to handle the PR for the second innocent unplugged festival, which will take place from 28 to 30 May 2016. Set in a “secret forest location” just outside of London, innocent unplugged is described as a “weekend off the grid” with no WiFi, 4G, or traditional electricity. Food is cooked over an open flame, the sound system is powered […]
Digital marketing specialist the Attercopia Group has made its first foray into the PR market with the acquisition of Manchester-based PR agency Label PR for an undisclosed sum. Attercopia is a full-service digital marketing agency with offices in Dundee, Edinburgh, Manchester, Chippenham and London. Its services include digital marketing, web development and design. Label PR […]
Travel and tourism multinational TUI Group, which owns the Thomson Airways and Corsair International brands, has appointed Maitland to manage its financial and corporate communications. Maitland will work on a “wide-ranging” strategic brief for TUI, including CEO thought-leadership, financial calendar results work and wider corporate communications. Partner David Sturken will lead the Maitland team, which is made […]
Newgate Communications is supporting luggage brand Samsonite’s US$1.8 billion (£1.27bn) acquisition of North American luxury travel brand Tumi. The deal was announced last Friday. The transaction sees Samsonite expanding into the premium travel luggage segment. Tumi, which was valued at US$26.74 per share by Samsonite in an all-cash transaction, will remain as a standalone brand under the Samsonite umbrella. Ramesh […]
Gorkana has a few final places available at Thursday’s exclusive breakfast briefing with weekly investment magazine Shares‘ editor Daniel Coatsworth. Shares is a weekly personal finance magazine aimed at private UK investors and stock market professionals. The title has an audited circulation of some 13,600 and its content often influences the market’s view of individual companies […]
Diffusion’s Tim Bond has joined the Direct Marketing Association Group (DMA), a trade association for the marketing industry, as group head of PR. In the role, Bond will take responsibility for developing the comms strategies for both the DMA and Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing (IDM) brands, which includes both bodies’ special councils and initiatives. The DMA and IDM merged […]
The Financial Times has named Sacha Bunatyan as global B2C marketing director, with a brief to grow its subscriptions business and enhance audience development. With more than 15 years’ experience, Bunatyan was COO at Amnet, Denstu Aegis’ group programmatic trading desk and has held senior roles at EMAP and AOL. During her time with AOL, she […]
Coffin on Cake PR has been appointed by British denim label Lee Cooper to manage the global launch of the brands’ premium selvedge denim range, ‘MADE IN ENGLAND’. Produced only in England, the MADE IN ENGLAND collection is made up of three cuts for men and three styles for women, which is being offered to a limited number of leading denim […]
Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), the financial services company’s asset management arm, has hired State Street Corporation’s Nicolette Botbol as a media relations manager. Reporting to communications consultant Irene Valenkamp, she will cover media relations for LGIM’s business lines including its institutional and retail business. Botbol has some nine years’ experience working in asset management […]
Coffee chain Costa has appointed Thrive PR’s Esme Knight as corporate communications manager. Knight takes responsibility for corporate communications, policy development, and crisis and issues management within Costa’s comms team. Reporting to Kerry Parkin, head of CSR and communications, Knight will work with Costa’s retained agencies Another Word, One Green Bean and Carmargue. Parkin said: […]