Milestone appoints Walbrook for financial PR

Milestone Group, the company behind youth employment venture The Passion Project, has appointed Walbrook PR to handle its financial communications and investor relations. Milestone, which is led by chief executive Deborah White (pictured), is listed on AIM. It reported revenues of £318,035 in the 12 months to 30 September 2015. Last month, it raised £549,500 […]

Taylor Herring kicks off Kellogg’s Team GB sponsorship with #GreatStarts

Taylor Herring has been appointed by Kellogg’s to promote its role as official sponsor of Team GB and its #GreatStarts campaign 100 days ahead of the Rio Olympics.   Olympic stars, including Sir Steve Redgrave, Louis Smith and Rebecca Adlington, are featured in #GreatStarts recreating iconic Hollywood morning scenes. The campaign will roll out over the coming months and […]

Shooting Star lands procurement brief

PR and marketing agency Shooting Star has secured a contract with AJ Purchasing, a procurement and supply chain business which specialises in the care sector. AJ Purchasing has appointed Shooting Star, which has offices in Lincoln and Bristol, to assist with the delivery of its new branding with a view to delivering PR in the […]

Mercieca wins CocoPro launch brief

Mercieca has been briefed to raise awareness of the launch of CocoPro, which claims to be the “world’s first high protein pure coconut water”, in the UK. The integrated agency will lead both the brand’s trade and consumer PR. Rory Lawson, founding partner at CocoPro, said: “We hired Mercieca because it has strong credentials in […]

Tin Man to launch What A Melon

New watermelon water brand What A Melon has called in creative comms agency Tin Man to handle its UK launch next month.  Tin Man will be responsible for the creative launch campaign for What A Melon, described by the brand as ‘the new Coconut Water’, as well as provide ongoing consumer and trade press office activity. The agency aims to […]

Way to Blue wins consumer PR brief for WaterWipes

Global comms agency Way to Blue has been handed a retained consumer PR brief for baby wipe brand WaterWipes, following a competitive pitch.   Way to Blue has been briefed to launch a series of brand campaigns to support and extend the reach of a national UK TV, print and digital advertising programme, which includes […]

British Cycling hires Cogent Elliott

Cogent Elliott has been chosen by British Cycling, the governing body of cycle sport in the UK, to handle film and online digital activity for two of its national programmes, ‘Breeze’ and ‘Ride Social’.   ‘Breeze’ is British Cycling’s biggest programme to get more women into riding bikes for fun, and aims to help women […]

Joe Barnes joins W as head of digital

W has enhanced its digital division with the appointment of Deep Focus London’s Joe Barnes as head of digital. Barnes will work alongside W’s senior leadership team, which includes CEO Warren Johnson, MD Richard Tompkins and strategy director Adam Leigh, with a brief to oversee multimedia output for clients including Unilever, Gruppo Campari, Levi’s and […]

Behind the Headlines with Fever’s Jo Chappel

Jo Chappel, creative director at Fever, on finding those eureka ideas during the most menial of tasks, launching a “Culture Vulture” programme to enhance creativity at the agency, and growing to love pitching to the press.   Before I reach the office in the morning, I’ve already… Had a cup of builders tea and fed my cats. We’re […]

Spreckley to promote copper-embedded clothing

PR agency Spreckley has been engaged to launch Copper 88, a range of copper-embedded compression garments, in the UK through trade and consumer media relations. The client is VSL, a Hong Kong-based trading company, which is offering Copper 88 products to retailers in the UK. VSL director Peter Eldon said he believed consumer demand for […]