North West agencies join forces for Carers Trust campaign
Manchester-based Intelligent Conversation and Knutsford-based 438 Marketing have been appointed to handle the PR for national charity Carers Trust, which supports the UK’s 7 [...]
Trio of wins for Influential
Comms agency Influential has won and delivered a trio of integrated creative campaign briefs for Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Chargepoint Technology, and The City of [...]
Alex Myers buys out co-founders of Manifest London
Manifest London’s co-founder, Alex Myers, has taken full control of the agency, as well as Manifest New York, following a deal that sees minority shareholders Nev Ridley and [...]
10 Reasons Why’s Emily Hartridge joins Exposure Digital
Exposure Digital has appointed Emily Hartridge, creator of weekly YouTube show 10 Reasons Why, as content and influence manager, which it claims is the first time a UK agency [...]
Gorkana meets… F1 journalist Christian Sylt
Christian Sylt, senior Formula 1 and motor racing journalist, talks to Gorkana about how he kicked off his career in the industry, founding Zoom, the F1 charity initiative, [...]
Forster Communications to help inspire Londoners to recycle
Forster Communications has been chosen by Recycle for London to help increase domestic recycling rates in the capital city, following a competitive pitch. Recycle for London [...]
Farrer Kane promotes property developer SAS
Comms agency Farrer Kane has been appointed by London residential property developer SAS Investments (SAS) to lead on UK-based media relations activity for the company and its [...]
William Murray CEO leads management buyout
Food, drink and hospitality agency William Murray Communications has changed hands after a management buy-out led by CEO Anita Murray. Founded in 1989, the agency has 25 [...]
Ready10 launches Europcar-backed Ubeeqo app
Ready10, the PR and SEO agency set up last month by David Fraser, Lord Sugar’s former publicist, is handling the UK launch of urban mobility app Ubeeqo, which is part-owned by [...]
Rain to launch new “home wellbeing” brand
New luxury “home wellbeing” brand TINCTURE has appointed Rain Communications to handle its UK launch, which is set for October 2016. Founded by sisters Anastasia [...]
Tesco appoints group comms director
Tesco has appointed Coca Cola’s Jane Lawrie to its executive committee as group comms director. She will join the retailer on 10 October 2016. Lawrie has more than 25 years’ [...]
Behind the Headlines with Finn’s Matt Bourn
Leeds-based Finn officially opens its new London office this month, so Gorkana goes Behind the Headlines with London head Matt Bourn to talk about cutting his teeth as a [...]
Splendid promotes Niki Hunter-Ekins to MD
Niki Hunter-Ekins, previously operations director at Splendid Communications, has been promoted to MD and head of client partnerships, 11 years after joining the company. [...]
Richard Dutton named CMO at Engine
Engine, which includes PR firms MHP and Mischief amongst its roster, has brought in Leo Burnett’s Richard Dutton as its new chief marketing officer. Dutton will move into the [...]
PortAventura hands international brief to Weber Shandwick
Weber Shandwick has been named as the international PR agency for PortAventura World Parks & Resort – one of Europe’s largest holiday and family entertainment [...]
lastminute.com Group hires firstlight for Travel People brief
firstlight has been appointed to handle a pan-European PR programme for the Travel People, a newly-launched media business from lastminute.com Group. The Travel People aims to [...]
Stationery shop Paperchase briefs Stir PR
Lifestyle agency Stir PR has been chosen by stationery shop Paperchase to promote its portfolio of lifestyle brands, with two campaigns set to take place over the summer. The [...]
M&C Saatchi PR’s Rik Salmon joins John Doe Communications
John Doe Communications has brought in M&C Saatchi PR’s Rik Salmon as an associate director, with a brief to lead some of the agency’s biggest consumer and lifestyle [...]