Towergate Insurance has appointed Powerscourt as its retained financial and corporate communications adviser. Towergate is the UK’s largest independently-owned insurance intermediary and is an important distribution channel for a significant range of specialist insurance products, including home, boat and caravan insurance. Its business offer to the UK SME market, ranges from care and medical to […]
Agency or in-house? This is a common fork in the road for careers in communications and Sarah Leembruggen, MD and owner of PR recruitment specialist and executive search business The Works, says both environments have much to offer. There has always been an interesting dynamic between the demand for PR and comms professionals who want […]
Boxed Energy, a specialist heating supplier to the social housing industry, has appointed Sale-based agency Social Communications to handle its PR. The agency will help launch Boxed’s low-carbon communal heating systems to the social housing sector through media relations, case studies and social media. Managed by Tim Niblock, Social Communications’ B2B PR specialist, the team […]
Consumer sport and lifestyle PR agency GUNG HO Communications has acquired London-based Coffin on Cake PR for an undisclosed figure, in a move that will double the size of the agency’s team. Coffin on Cake PR is a consumer-focused comms agency, which focuses on the fashion and lifestyle sectors. Its clients include Lee Cooper Selvedge, Farah and Roxy. GUNG HO is based in Birmingham […]
Packaging giant Tetra Pak has appointed Brands2Life to manage its B2B PR and public affairs in the UK on a three-year contract. After a three-stage competitive pitch process, the agency will start work immediately on campaigns for buyers within the juice, dairy, retail and restaurant markets. The team will report to Samantha Edgar, communications manager […]
Blue Rubicon has promoted Peter Fitch to managing director with immediate effect. He replaces Chris Norton, who recently joined Facebook as EMEA director of comms. Fitch has been on the corporate and consumer PR agency’s board of directors since joining in 2014, after spending nearly four years as global head of communications at Lloyd’s of […]
Jonathan Bown, deputy group director of digital content for Northern & Shell, talks to Gorkana‘s Grace Lee about tripling the number of OK! Online’s unique users, the power of a relevant celebrity, his surfeit of cupcakes and the publisher’s magazine portfolio online. Before your promotion two years ago to deputy group director of digital content at Northern & Shell, […]
Newsrooms across newer titles such as Quartz, are moving away from ‘traditional’ ways of working which are commonly focused on set ‘beats’ and key, formal and physical, editorial meetings throughout the day. Comms experts from Mischief, Ketchum and LEWIS discuss what PRs need to know about pitching to journalists who have adopted new, more ‘fluid’ ways of working […]
PR and marketing consultancy MC2 has been appointed to develop and implement an integrated communications strategy for travel specialist Travel Counsellors. Travel Counsellors delivers bespoke travel solutions to both the corporate and leisure markets through a franchise model. With support from private equity backing, and a recent head office move from Bolton to Manchester, the company […]
EM, the financial and corporate communications agency for emerging markets, has appointed Irina Logutenkova to its Moscow-based investor relations advisory practice. Irina joins from Rosneft, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, where, during five years in the company’s investor relations team, she was involved in M&A and capital markets transactions including the company’s £39 […]