60 Seconds with Hotwire UK’s Matt Cross
Hotwire’s UK MD, Matt Cross, on the benefits of an expanding business, how the agency manages as an international business and why he’s a believer in ‘PR [...]
Profile Financial appoints Headland for proposition launch
Pensions specialist Profile Financial has appointed Headland to launch its refreshed customer proposition. It has briefed Headland to raise brand awareness among the millions [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Houston PR boosts capital markets comms with new hire
Houston PR has hired Kate Hoare as an account director in its London office as it develops its capital markets communications offer. Hoare joins the agency from a client [...]
Steffan Williams takes on CEO role at Porta
Porta Communications, the international communications group, has announced a series of changes to its board and management team, including the appointment of Steffan Williams [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Opinion: Collaboration and crisis comms
Victoria Cross, managing partner at Instinctif Partners, argues that preparation for a crisis relies on collaborative communications. I chaired a panel debate recently for a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Energy UK appoints Abbie Sampson to lead its communications team
Abbie Sampson, head of news at Which?, will join Energy UK as a director of external affairs at the start of the new year. Sampson was previously chief press officer at [...]
Is PR slow to take advantage of content opportunities?
While branded content is growing in popularity among marketers, there are few PR agencies on the shortlists for this year’s International Content Marketing [...]