Leidar hires Brunswick’s Phil Riggins
Leidar has appointed Brunswick’s Phil Riggins as partner to further strengthen its brand and reputation insight practice. At Leidar, Riggins will help clients understand and [...]
FTI Consulting to advise McKay’s communications
McKay Securities has appointed real estate and built environment specialist FTI Consulting to advise on its corporate and financial communications. Dido Laurimore, FTI’s [...]
WE Communications launches The PLUS Network
WE Communications has founded The PLUS Network, a group of six independent specialist agencies looking to “solve modern day marketing, policy and communications [...]
Shout out for Corporate, Financial and B2B case studies
Gorkana PR News is looking for contribution of recent Corporate, Financial and B2B case studies. If your agency or organisation has recently launched a great campaign with [...]
Revolut hires first global comms lead
Revolut, an app-based banking alternative, has brought in Rocket Internet’s Chad West as its global head of comms. Launched 18 months ago, Revolut allows users to set up a [...]
Daily Record’s Iain Pope joins Stripe Communications
Iain Pope, the Daily Record’s former head of digital news, has joined Stripe Communications in the newly-created role of editorial director. Pope has more than 20 years’ [...]
Hatch Communications wins trio of brands
Spectrum Brands UK has awarded Hatch Communications its Russell Hobbs, Remington and George Foreman accounts following a three-way pitch. The Leeds-based PR agency will manage [...]
M&C Saatchi PR wins Virgin Active brief
M&C Saatchi PR has been named as the retained strategic comms partner for Virgin Active. Virgin Active has briefed M&C Saatchi PR’s UK team to “up the health club’s [...]
Opinion: Why Launch PR is dropping the ‘PR’
Johnny Pitt, founder of Launch and The Creative Shootout, on what is driving the agency’s new positioning and why it is dropping ‘PR’ from its name. Central to our being at [...]
Grayling UK appoints Sarah Scholefield as CEO
Grayling, the integrated global communications company, has appointed Sarah Scholefield as the company’s UK chief executive officer with immediate effect. Scholefield was [...]
Tony Langham joins the PRCA Board of Management
The PRCA has appointed Lansons co-founder Tony Langham to its Board of Management – the body which ensures it acts in the best interests of its members and the PR industry. [...]
Promotions at JFL Search & Selection
Comms recruitment consultancy JFL Search & Selection has promoted Poppy Green and Millie Santry to senior consultant and consultant respectively. Green first joined JFL in [...]
London Design Festival hands global comms brief to Exposure
London Design Festival has chosen Exposure to lead its global comms. The agency aims to develop a long-term comms strategy that will “democratise design” by highlighting its [...]
Stone Junction to spearhead Gough Engineering’s PR
Staffordshire industrial equipment-maker Gough Engineering has appointed local technical agency Stone Junction to lead its PR activity. The two companies will work together [...]
Social Communications wins Liberty Retirement Living’s PR brief
Liberty Retirement Living has enlisted nationwide PR consultancy Social Communications promote its accommodation, lifestyle and care services for the over-55s. Social [...]
JustGiving calls in Rooster PR for crowdfunding push
JustGiving, the UK’s biggest social fundraising platform, has brought in Rooster PR to handle its UK crowdfunding press activity. Activity will focus on the placement of human [...]
60 Seconds with GK Strategy’s Robin Grainger
GK Strategy’s co-founding director, Robin Grainger, discusses the agency’s success, surviving in the current media environment and why you should never say [...]
Fintech startup Curve names Callum McCaig as its first PR hire
London fintech startup Curve has made its first PR and comms hire with the appointment of Burson-Marsteller’s Callum McCaig, as the business prepares to scale out of [...]