Why it’s time for CMOs to embrace PR and comms
What you’re about to read might sound like bad news. But for businesses that arm themselves with the right tools, it actually represents a huge opportunity just waiting to be realised. You see, consumer trust is falling across the board. Global research firm Nielsen reports that consumers now trust print, TV and radio ads less […]
Headland appointed by retailer McColl’s
Convenience store and newsagent operator, McColl’s Retail Group, has hired Headland to lead on its financial and corporate communications, including the acquisition of 298 [...]
TransferGo chooses 2Sisters PR to target UK’s Polish community
TransferGo, a digital remittance solution for migrant workers based in London, has chosen 2Sisters PR to promote its brand to Polish people based in the UK. 2Sisters, a Polish [...]
Threepipe co-founder Eddie May to lead new creative comms agency The Playbook
Hanover Group has this week launched The Playbook, a new creative comms agency which will be led by Threepipe co-founder and former MD Eddie May. Launch clients include the [...]
Motor Sport editor to depart for automotive PR role
Motor Sport editor Damien Smith is departing the magazine to take up an associate director role at automotive PR specialist Influence Associates in mid-September. A journalist [...]
Threepipe boosts SEO capability by acquiring Spot Digital
Threepipe has acquired performance marketing agency Spot Digital, as it looks to enhance its natural search and SEO capability. Spot Digital, a technically driven SEO agency, [...]
Wine merchant Friarwood hires Clementine Communications
Clementine Communications has been chosen to handle a 2016/2017 UK PR campaign for fine wine merchant Friarwood. Based in London, Friarwood is both an on and off-trade [...]
AAT appoints Headland for exam results season
The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has appointed Headland to deliver its student acquisition campaign following 2016’s exam results dates. Headland will work on [...]
Prime Day or Black Friday: What provides the best PR value?
Amazon has launched ‘Prime Day’ offers for the second year today (Tuesday), and, as shoppers scope out the best deals among its ranges of tech devices, clothing, health, [...]
60 seconds with Fiona Pargeter, Jaguar Land Rover
Fiona Pargeter, head of global PR communications at Jaguar Land Rover, has been named as the leader in the communications category of Autocar magazine’s ‘Great [...]
Speed acquires foodservice specialist The Splash Partnership
Speed Communications, part of The Mission Marketing Group, has acquired PR and comms agency The Splash Partnership, expanding its offer into the foodservice and hospitality [...]
MHP and Dukas Linden announce strategic partnership
UK-based MHP Communications, and US-based Dukas Linden Public Relations (DLPR), have formed a strategic partnership to provide a global financial communications service. [...]
Jolly Good Causes asks public to vote on new logo
Jolly Good Causes, which was set up in 2014 to provide low cost and free press and comms support to small charities in the UK, is inviting members of the public to help it [...]
Ogilvy’s Alex Wood joins Golin
Golin has brought in Ogilvy’s Alex Wood as executive creative director, with a brief to “bring innovation into the agency”. Wood spent more than three-and-a-half years at [...]
60 seconds with CIPR president Rob Brown
Halfway through his 2016 presidential term at the CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations), Rob Brown talks about the professional body, its ongoing work, and reflects [...]
Edgeware hands global brief to Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Tech comms agency Red Lorry Yellow Lorry has been chosen by TV content delivery specialist Edgeware to handle its global PR activity. Edgeware provides operators and content [...]
Lancashire Telegraph deputy editor joins Viva
Manchester PR agency, Viva, has hired Alan Simpson, the former deputy editor of the Lancashire Telegraph. Simpson, who has taken up the role of business development executive [...]
Newgate Communications appointed by Sompo
Japanese insurance service provider, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdings (Sompo), has appointed Newgate Communications to a combined corporate and financial communications and [...]
Louise Mason joins Citigate Dewe Rogerson
Citigate Dewe Rogerson has appointed Louise Mason as a director in its financial team, where she will be responsible for growing the existing client base and expanding upon [...]