Golley Slater PR will handle communications for LDF, the largest “non-bank” SME finance provider in the UK. LDF is a 30-year-old business that, it says, hasn’t focussed on its PR strategy before now. Following its appointment, Golley Slater’s Leeds office will help the business to convey the benefits of non-bank lending routes by creating “compelling content and news […]
Dundee-based regional newspaper The Courier was named Newspaper of the Year at last week’s Regional Press Awards so Gorkana‘s Josh Gray caught up with its editor, Richard Neville, to find out what he thought secured the top prize for his paper, why the local community remains central to its content and what his plans are for the paper’s 200th anniversary […]
At Gorkana‘s London media briefing event this morning, John Crowley, editor-in-chief of the International Business Times, announced a roster of new columnists and introduced the title’s new business editor, Gaurav Sharma. Sharma will begin writing a weekly column on the UK site from the first week of June. His previous roles include positions at CNBC […]
Global social media agency We Are Social has boosted its creative and production teams by hiring All Together Now’s Daniel Evans as associate creative director and Hello You Creatives’ founder Dan Vallint-Riggs as its first shooting director. Evans has worked in senior creative roles for agencies including Huge and Buzzman Paris. Most recently, he was […]
Scottish PR agency The BIG Partnership has expanded its offering in the North West of England with the launch of a new Manchester office, and brought in Sarah Lawless from marketing agency One to head it up. The move follows a string of client wins for The Big Partnership worth in excess of £250k in the last […]
The PR and comms team at Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has launched a campaign to make finance and fund management more accessible. AllianzGI’s fantasy fund management game, European Equities 2016, allows would-be investors to manage European stocks as if it were their own portfolio. With the “look and feel of a traditional fantasy football game,” European Equities […]
Stuart Jackson, VP Communications at Nissan and founder of UP Communications, on his unique hiring techniques, why journalism in the 90s was ‘like the Wild West’ and why people shouldn’t use the word ‘comms’ as a verb. How did you get into corporate comms? I moved from being a poor journalist to being a slightly less-poor PR […]
WPP-owned Clarion has restructured its senior team, with MD of 12 years Amanda Meyrick stepping into the role of CEO to lead a newly-formed board of four managing partners, as the agency turns 30 this year and takes on a new brand identity, ‘Clever Works’. Meyrick plans to drive the business forward with a three-step […]
Hotwire’s deputy MD, Matt Cross, has been promoted to MD of the UK business, four years after joining the agency as a director. Cross, who was made deputy UK MD in 2013, has been responsible for winning and handling some of the agency’s biggest international clients. Recent client wins at Hotwire UK have included Travelex, Nuance […]
FTI Consulting has advised vehicle retailer Motorpoint on its recent IPO. Jonathon Brill, Alex Beagley, James Styles and Fiona Walker make up the team that advised Motorpoint Group plc on the flotation which took place on May 18. FTI Consulting has also been retained as Motorpoint’s corporate and financial PR adviser moving forwards. Motorpoint floated on the London Stock Exchange with a market […]