Simon Darby joins PLMR executive team
Simon Darby has been hired as a senior account director at Westminster and Edinburgh-based communications agency PLMR, and will head up one of the company’s core consultancy [...]
Snell Advanced Media appoints Bubble & Squeak
Bubble & Squeak will handle communications for Snell Advanced Media (SAM), which designs and develops solutions for the media production market. Broadcast PR agency Bubble [...]
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Your bitesize update on the latest People News and Moves featured on Gorkana News: MSC Cruises names UK and Ireland PR manager Europe’s biggest cruise line, MSC Cruises, has [...]
Former Weber MD Jo Leah launches the little big agency
Jo Leah, who recently stepped down as MD of Weber Shandwick Manchester after two decades at the helm, is opening a new Manchester-based comms firm called the little big [...]
Opinium Research makes financial and professional services hire
London-based agency Opinium Research has hired Josh Glendinning as a research manager to strengthen its financial and professional services offering. Glendinning joins after [...]
Opinion: how to tailor apprenticeship schemes in PR
Ahead of April 2017’s government apprenticeship levy, Aliya Vigor-Robertson, co-founder at JourneyHR, discusses how PRs can better tailor schemes for new recruits. With [...]
Beano Studios hands Borkowski corporate comms brief
Beano, the comic publisher and children’s brand, has appointed corporate and entertainment agency Borkowski Ltd to devise and deliver a corporate communications strategy for [...]
Opinion: Engaging the UK’s Polish Community
Ewelina Krzysztofik, MD at 2Sisters PR, talks about the unique challenge and opportunity that communicating with the Polish community in the UK offers. With most Poles [...]
AB Dynamics appoints IFC Advisory
AB Dynamics plc (Anthony Best Dynamics), an AIM-listed supplier of testing systems to the motor industry, has appointed IFC Advisory as its financial PR and investor relations [...]
Equality Capital appoints Mash PR
Equality Capital, the UK wealth management firm which prioritises the rights of LGBT people, has retained Mash PR. Equality Capital prioritises ethical investment by ensuring [...]
8 tips for communicating to the ‘modern woman’
Engine revealed this week that women feel brands do not accurately represent them. To remedy this, the agency group, which includes MHP Communications, has come up with eight [...]
Rostrum appointed UK PR agency for Synechron
Rostrum has been appointed as the UK PR agency for digital, business and technology consulting firm Synechron. Synechron has tasked the agency with building its presence in [...]
Yellow Jersey PR grows corporate comms team
Yellow Jersey PR has hired Sheena Munsami as account executive within its corporate communications team. Previously, Munsami has worked for financial, litigation and crisis [...]
MSC Cruises names UK and Ireland PR manager
Europe’s biggest cruise line, MSC Cruises, has appointed Teneo Blue Rubicon’s Natalie Billington as UK and Ireland PR manager. Billington joins the cruise company as the [...]
FWD appointed by European Wealth
European Wealth Group Limited, the wealth management specialist, has appointed FWD as its retained financial PR and communications consultancy. Roddy Watt, director of capital [...]
Four acquires data and insights-led agency Legend Engage
Four Communications Group (Four) has acquired data and insights-led agency Legend Engage. Rebranding to Four Engage, the agency will move immediately to Four’s headquarters in [...]
UK brands are failing to effectively communicate to women
Engine’s research ‘Engaging the 21st Century Woman; What Brands Need to Know’ highlights that 86% of women think brands fuel old-fashioned stereotypes. This morning, Stylist’s [...]
Rosie Day to lead strategic comms at City and Westminster Property Associations
Berkeley Group’s Rosie Day has joined the City and Westminster Property Associations as assistant director, with responsibility for strategic comms activity. Within the FTSE [...]