Luxury charter jet firm hires PMW Communications
New luxury charter jet company Volanteus has handed a full marketing brief to PMW Communications, which will include PR activity. Volanteus provides charter jet services that [...]
Cogent Elliott appoints Hutton as CEO
Marketing comms agency Cogent Elliott has hired Bruce Hutton as group chief executive and Francis Maude as non-executive chairman. Hutton replaces Mike Phillipson, who [...]
Raft of wins for Murray Chalmers PR
Murray Chalmers PR has won PR briefs for the Beautycon Festival London, Big Apple Brixton and the BRITs Icon Awards. The agency has also retained its PR brief for the NME [...]
This week’s top agency news
Your bitesize update on the latest agency news from Gorkana this week: Triple S Group, the management group for Wayne Rooney, has appointed the FA’s former head of media, Mark [...]
This week’s top people news
Your bitesize update on the latest People News and Moves featured this week on Gorkana: Corporate PR agency Rostrum has hired Karen Clark as an account manager and Chloe Brown [...]
City Year UK briefs Stand Agency
City Year UK, a leading youth social action charity, has appointed Stand Agency to increase its profile across national and regional media, and support its growth targets. [...]
KPMG appoints press office lead
Professional services firm KPMG has appointed Zoe Sheppard as head of its press office. She replaces Erfan Hussain who has joined Accenture. Sheppard joined KPMG in 2011, and [...]
Grifco PR launches #GrifcoGradsTeam internship programme
Grifco PR has launched a paid PR internship programme and, from Monday, is on the hunt for up to six “passionate and enthusiastic” interns to join the London-based luxury [...]
Temple Bar Advisory advises on Interactive Investor deal
Interactive Investor has appointed Temple Bar Advisory (TBA) to support its acquisition of TD Direct Investing. The acquisition, financed by J.C. Flowers & Co. will create [...]
This week’s top trending features on Gorkana News
Your bitesize update on Gorkana News’ features highlights from this week, including opinions, news analyses, event write-ups and insights: Gorkana Meets: The Pool In [...]
Newgate advises SOMPO on Endurance acquisition
SOMPO, a Japanese insurance business, has instructed its retained agency Newgate Communications to provide communications advice around the proposed $6.3bn (£4bn) acquisition [...]
Yellow Jersey advises BIH on London listing
Yesterday (12 October), Yellow Jersey PR successfully advised Boston International Holdings (BIH) on its admission to trading on the London Stock Exchange. The Yellow Jersey [...]
elephant communications supports AFM conference
The Association of Financial Mutuals (AFM) has brought in elephant communications to run a press office for its annual conference, held earlier this week in [...]
Co-op Food hands retained PR brief to M&C Saatchi PR
The Co-op’s food business has appointed M&C Saatchi PR as its retained PR partner, after the convenience retailer announced that it was going back to “Being Co-op”. [...]
Rostrum expands with three hires
Corporate PR agency Rostrum has hired Karen Clark as an account manager and Chloe Brown and Gayle Tupaz as account executives across its corporate and professional services [...]
Forster hired to help tackle human trafficking in the UK
Forster Communications has been selected by Shiva Foundation to help promote its work to tackle human trafficking and modern slavery in the UK. Established in 2012 by Shiva [...]
We Are Social names head of strategy
Global social media agency We Are Social has brought in Adjust Your Set’s Harvey Cossell as head of strategy. Cossell has spent the past three years as strategy director at [...]
Babel PR promotes Matt Humphries to UK MD
Babel PR, an integrated technology PR and communications agency, has promoted Matt Humphries to UK MD. Humphries has been with Babel since 2008, and will now head up the [...]