JD Sports briefs PHA Media
PHA Media has been appointed by high street giant JD Sports to handle press office activity for its JD Women and Pink Soda Sport brands, following a competitive pitch. JD [...]
Unity wins big at PR Week Awards
Unity and The Romans were the big winners at last night’s PR Week Awards, with Unity claiming the biggest haul with seven awards, including the Gold Award for Consultancy of [...]
UK brand value remains ‘steady’ post-Brexit, but can nations control reputation?
Strategy consultancy Brand Finance reports that the UK’s brand value has remained ‘steady’ post-Brexit, coming in fifth in a list of 100 countries. Corporate [...]
Deliveroo hands consumer PR brief to Havas PR
Deliveroo, the on-demand delivery service for restaurant meals, has appointed Havas PR UK as its retained consumer PR agency. The agency’s remit includes national and regional [...]
Meet GP and Medeconomics
Gorkana has a few final places available for Thursday’s (October 20) exclusive breakfast briefing with Emma Bower, editor of Haymarket titles GP and Medeconomics. More than 50 [...]
LEGOLAND hires Clarion
LEGOLAND Windsor Resort, the children’s theme park aimed solely at families with children aged 2 to 12, has brought in Clarion Communications as its consumer PR agency. [...]
Feather & Black hires Porta agencies
Bedroom furniture retailer Feather & Black has appointed Porta Communications sister agencies Publicasity and Thirteen Communications to handle its consumer, trade and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Can Facebook’s Workplace lead on internal comms?
Facebook has launched a version of its app and website aimed at businesses named Workplace. As the tool contends with popular office apps such as Slack, Yammer and bespoke [...]
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”. [...]
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 [...]
WHSmith hands Christmas brief to Another Word Communications
WHSmith has appointed Another Word Communications to provide PR support in the lead up to Christmas. The agency will report to Laura Wildish, marketing manager at WHSmith, and [...]
Go Barefoot appoints Three Little Birds
Travel tour operator Go Barefoot Travel has appointed Three Little Birds PR and Business Development to build awareness of its brand in the UK. Specialising in small groups [...]
Morning Advertiser’s Mike Berry joins Fleet Street Communications
The Morning Advertiser’s managing editor, Mike Berry, is joining Fleet Street Communications to take on the newly-created role of head of content. Berry has worked as a drinks [...]