Scottish conveyancer appoints Clarion for B2B and trade PR
Land and property search firm Millar & Bryce has appointed Clarion Communications to spearhead its trade and B2B PR in Scotland. Clarion’s primary brief is to handle brand [...]
Cision PR Panel: Financial brands must beware the “London bubble”
Brexit and disruptive technologies are transforming the relationship between consumers and financial brands, a panel of experts said at last night’s Cision thought leadership [...]
Hume Brophy Singapore hires Holly Huang as director
Hume Brophy has appointed Holly Huang as a director in its Singapore office, to advise clients across its financial and corporate communications practices. Huang previously [...]
Portland launches strategic planning function
Portland has hired Tanya Sandler, a former Ogilvy & Mather New York creative strategist, as its first strategic planner. Sandler will help Portland’s communications [...]
Franco Manca owner appoints Hudson Sandler
UK restaurant company The Fulham Shore has appointed Hudson Sandler as its retained financial and corporate communications adviser following a competitive pitch. The Fulham [...]
Morgan Rossiter wins financial services clients LGB & Co and SteelEye
Financial services companies Lesmoir-Gordon, Boyle & Co and SteelEye have chosen Morgan Rossiter to handle their corporate communications briefs. The London-based [...]
Buchanan advises on Domino’s Pizza franchisee float
Buchanan has helped DP Eurasia, the master franchisee of the Domino’s Pizza brand in Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, to list in London. The financial PR agency [...]
This week’s PR news in brief (3-7 July)
Here is a round-up of the essential PR stories, account and pitch wins and people news that has been announced over the last week. Account wins Diffusion has been selected by [...]
Rolls-Royce recruits Barney Wyld to lead corporate affairs
Barney Wyld, group director of corporate communications at Network Rail, is to join Rolls-Royce later this year. The appointment follows the decision of Rolls-Royce’s director [...]
Smoking Gun PR wins Les Mills brief
Fitness brand Les Mills has appointed Smoking Gun PR to deliver a 12-month campaign. Les Mills workouts are licensed by 17,500 partners in 100 countries around the world and [...]
Redleaf hires Laura Westmacott as associate director
Redleaf Communications has strengthened its property team with the appointment of luxury, Middle East and broadcast expert Laura Westmacott as associate director. She will [...]
W launches corporate comms division W Enterprise
W has launched a new corporate communications division, W Enterprise, which combines its media, tech, corporate, B2B and BrandLab clients under a single umbrella. The [...]
Admiral Taverns appoints Houston PR
Admiral Taverns, one of the UK’s largest community pub companies with more than 800 pubs nationwide, has appointed Houston PR as its retained communications consultancy. Kate [...]
White Paper: Fake news and communications
With the concept of fake news challenging consumer trust in the media, Cision has published a new UK white paper highlighting the challenges this phenomenon creates for [...]
PR event: Financial panel to address “Brexit comms” challenges and market disruption
With Brexit negotiations finally underway, a panel of media, fintech and PR experts will meet in London next week to discuss why it’s essential for financial services [...]
This week’s PR news in brief (26-30 June)
Here is a round-up of the essential PR stories, account and pitch wins and people news that have been announced over the last week. Account wins Technology solutions [...]
Citypress hires Rory Fletcher for strategic communications practice
Rory Fletcher, head of Cohn & Wolfe’s political counsel team, is joining Citypress as a director in its strategic communications practice. Starting in September, Fletcher [...]
Aerospace company Embraer hires H+K as global agency
Embraer has appointed H+K as its first global agency of record, with a brief for a year-long campaign. The Brazil-headquartered company makes small commercial jets, as well as [...]