Seymour PR launches organic feminine care range Kind Organic
Kind Organic, the UK’s first organic feminine care range for sensitive skin, has appointed Seymour PR on a two-month consumer and trade press office brief. Carie Barkhuizen, [...]
Text100 appoints Rod Cartwright as EMEA regional director
Marketing comms agency Text100 has announced former Ketchum global corporate lead Rod Cartwright as its new EMEA regional director. He will take over from Cecile Missildine, [...]
Good Relations wins Lidl consumer PR brief
Lidl has appointed PR and content agency Good Relations as its retained consumer PR agency, following a competitive pitch. The brief will see Good Relations work alongside the [...]
Impero wins Richmond Sausages digital brief
Richmond Sausages has appointed Impero to deliver a refreshed digital strategy for the brand, following a competitive pitch. Having already launched a new website to align [...]
Skout wins trio of B2B tech clients
Cheshire-based B2B PR agency Skout has added a trio of new clients to its tech portfolio – Airangel, Cleardata UK and CORETX. Airangel, a hospitality wifi provider, has [...]
This week’s PR news in brief (4-8 September)
Here is a round-up of essential PR stories, people news and account wins that have been announced over the past week. Account wins CIPD, a professional body for HR and people [...]
Marketing expert Jay Baer reviews the Cision Communications Cloud
Jay Baer, a New York Times best-selling author and product marketing expert, recently reviewed the Cision Communications Cloud (TM) on his popular technology show Marketing [...]
Former Boris Johnson special advisor joins Pagefield
Reputation management specialist Pagefield has appointed Liam Parker, Boris Johnson’s former special advisor and director of political communications, as partner at the firm. [...]
Headland wins Lidl UK brief
Lidl UK has appointed Headland for a wide-ranging brief spanning public affairs, senior communications advice, press office support and corporate and financial PR. Led by [...]
Wonderland Communications wins Kraft Heinz UK brief
Kraft Heinz, the world’s fifth-largest food and beverage company, has awarded 18-month-old Wonderland Communications a place on its UK roster following a six-way pitch. The [...]
Hudson Sandler appoints Rebecca Gudgeon as board director
Hudson Sandler has appointed Rebecca Gudgeon as a board director to help develop its strategic corporate communications practice. Gudgeon has been providing board council on [...]
Frank becomes first UK PR agency to accept Bitcoin payments
Frank has announced today that it will become the first UK PR agency to accept payment for its services in Bitcoin, the virtual currency. The agency expects its move to [...]
Trio of appointments at Yellow Jersey
Yellow Jersey has appointed Georgia Colkin as its first associate director, operating out of its financial PR division and across a handful of key clients. Abs Hassanali and [...]
Campaign Collective wins Tomorrow’s Engineers Week brief
Campaign Collective, a social enterprise providing comms advice to not-for-profit organisations and campaigners, has been appointed to support the fifth Tomorrow’s Engineers [...]
British Library appoints Jargon PR CEO as growth mentor
The British Library has selected Jargon PR CEO Simon Corbett to be one of its “Innovating for Growth” mentors. Having benefitted from The British Library’s business resources [...]
Clarion Comms appoints Jeremy Blackburn to advisory board
Clarion Communications has appointed tobacco industry veteran Jeremy Blackburn to its advisory board of “Very Clever People”. The corporate communications specialist has dealt [...]
CIPR names Emma Leech 2018 president-elect
Following her unopposed run in the 2017 CIPR election, Emma Leech has been confirmed as the CIPR’s president-elect for 2018. In her candidate statement she vowed to “bring [...]
Government special adviser joins Burson-Marsteller
Burson-Marsteller UK has hired former Downing Street adviser Meg Powell-Chandler as a director in its public affairs team. Powell-Chandler ran as the Conservative candidate in [...]