Harvard wins tech recruiter Hired
Hired, a tech recruitment specialist headquartered in San Francisco, has brought in Harvard as it looks to boost its UK profile following a competitive pitch process. The [...]
Rupert Walker joins Brands2Life as social chief
Rupert Walker, former social lead for digital marketing firm Kitcatt Nohr/DNA, has joined Brands2Life as head of social, with a remit to help build the agency’s digital and [...]
Frank promotes Mattessons’ new ads
Frank has been appointed by Kerry Foods-owned Mattessons to promote the brand’s new ‘Snackarchist’ advertising campaign. Saatchi & Saatchi created the [...]
Citigate hires CNC’s James Madsen
Citigate Dewe Rogerson has appointed CNC’s James Madsen as associate director in its corporate team. Reporting into corporate MD Jonathan Flint, he will provide support [...]
Testing co. Exova hires corporate affairs lead
Exova, which tests safety, quality and performance of products across sectors including aerospace, food and pharma, has appointed Compass Group’s Andrew Pickup to the [...]
New content lead for Ogilvy PR London
Ogilvy PR London has enhanced its social and content offer with the appointment of Edelman UK’s Chris Wall as head of content. After a three year stint as international editor [...]
MHP’s Gavin Devine to join Porta as COO
MHP CEO Gavin Devine will join communications group Porta, which owns agency brands Newgate, Publicasity and Redleaf, in a new chief operating officer role. Devine was part of [...]
MAA appoints first chair from PR sector
Exposure founder and joint chief executive Tim Bourne has been named chairman of The Marketing Agencies Association, the first MAA chairman from a PR and comms background. The [...]
Quite Great wins talent platform Perform-ers brief
Perform-ers, a new talent platform for creative people to promote their music and art, has brought in Quite Great Publicity to handle its PR. Perform-ers enables its users to [...]
CNC hires Tulchan’s Buchanan as joint managing partner
CNC has appointed Tulchan’s Tom Buchanan as joint managing partner. He will work alongside the comms firm’s Richard Campbell and Roland Klein. Based in CNC’s [...]
Revolution briefed to promote Silverstone Classic
Revolution Sports + Entertainment has been chosen to provide a consumer and lifestyle PR campaign for the Silverstone Classic, the world’s biggest classic motor racing [...]
Forest Enterprise England tenders £800,000 PR brief
Forest Enterprise England (FEE), part of the Forestry Commission, has put a brief out to tender for a four-year PR contract worth a total of £800,000. FEE manages state-owned [...]
Burson-Marsteller appoints The Times’ Clark
Burson-Marsteller UK has appointed The Times‘ Andrew Clark as a director in its public affairs team. Clark was most recently deputy business editor at The Times, where [...]
AVG’s Innovation Labs hires Augur
AVG’s Innovation Labs, the internet security provider’s independent development arm, has hired Augur to raise its global profile. Augur, which calls itself a comms [...]
Iredale Communications wins four accounts
Iredale Communications, founded by former Sunday Times reporter Will Iredale, has won four new accounts, including utility bill divider Dividabill and frozen smoothie company [...]
Lidl names W as its UK PR agency
Lidl, Britain’s fastest-growing supermarket*, has appointed W as its UK PR agency ahead of a major expansion programme. W, which won the account following a competitive pitch [...]
PR firms in Sunday Times Best Companies
Engine and Edelman have made it onto this year’s The Sunday Times’ 100 Best Companies To Work For list. In addition, Bite has been named one of the 100 Best Small Companies To [...]
Tech investor Mercia brings in Buchanan
Mercia Technologies, a business which invests in “disruptive” tech companies such as virtual reality enterprise nDreams, has hired Buchanan as its retained [...]