State Street’s Botbol joins Legal & General IM

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), the financial services company’s asset management arm, has hired State Street Corporation’s Nicolette Botbol as a media relations manager. Reporting to communications consultant Irene Valenkamp, she will cover media relations for LGIM’s business lines including its institutional and retail business. Botbol has some nine years’ experience working in asset management […]

Costa recruits corporate comms manager

Coffee chain Costa has appointed Thrive PR’s Esme Knight as corporate communications manager. Knight takes responsibility for corporate communications, policy development, and crisis and issues management within Costa’s comms team. Reporting to Kerry Parkin, head of CSR and communications, Knight will work with Costa’s retained agencies Another Word, One Green Bean and Carmargue. Parkin said: […]

Richmond Towers to promote The Postal Museum

New London heritage attraction The Postal Museum has appointed Richmond Towers to increase consumer awareness in the lead up to its 2017 opening. When it officially opens in 2017, The Postal Museum will reveal stories from five centuries of Britain’s social history. Mail Rail, a mini underground railway formerly used by Royal Mail to transport letters under […]

Morrisons hands product PR brief to Cirkle

Morrisons,  the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain, has chosen Cirkle as its product PR agency as part of a planned review of its marketing agencies. Cirkle will be responsible for publicising grocery products, with a particular focus on the fresh food made in Morrisons stores and factories, as well as beers, wines and its Nutmeg clothing […]

Capital Access Group hires AIM’s Brickles

Investor relations specialist Capital Access Group (CAG) has brought in Simon Brickles, formerly head of AIM at the London Stock Exchange, to chair its newly-launched advisory board. The advisory board is an informal forum which promotes greater investor engagement for quoted companies. It is made up of senior directors of listed companies, fund manager and senior City figures. Brickles, who […]

Alfred to promote freestyle football globally

The Freestyle Football Federation, the world governing body for the sport, has brought in Alfred to run its global press office, following a three-way pitch. Freestyle Football is described as a fusion of “tricks and skills with a football, along with music, dance and the arts.” Worldwide, Freestyle Footballers operate under the slogan, ‘All You Need is […]

Golin launches diversity ‘unternship’

Integrated communications agency, Golin, has launched an internship with the aim of making the PR, marketing and media sector more accessible for disadvantaged candidates. Golin’s ‘unternship’ will give successful candidates the chance to take a two month trip ahead of a more traditional, three-month internship in one of Golin’s creative teams. They will be paid the Living […]

Mondelēz’s Tony Bilsborough joins Beattie

Creative comms group Beattie has recruited the former PR chief from Mondelēz International and Cadbury, Tony Bilsborough, to head up its team in Birmingham. Bilsborough was named head of of external comms (UK and Ireland) at Cadbury UK in 2004, and became head of UK external comms for Kraft Foods, which then became Mondelez International, following […]

Lansons promotes McKenzie to joint MD

Lansons has promoted Scott McKenzie, director and head of change and employee engagement, to joint MD. He will work alongside existing MDs Laura Hastings, Rebecca Mayo and Stuart Graham. McKenzie joined Lansons as board director in December 2012, before being promoted to the management board in November last year. He helped has since established Lansons’ change practice, […]