Portland promotes Sam Ingleby to senior partner
PR agency Portland has promoted Sam Ingleby to senior partner and head of its 75-strong internal corporate team. The corporate group provides expertise across corporate [...]
ChargePoint brings in Bite for European PR
Electric vehicle charging company ChargePoint has appointed Bite as its agency of record to manage European communications activity and coordination across the region. [...]
Law firm Fletcher Day appoints Sugar PR
Commercial law firm Fletcher Day has appointed Manchester-based Sugar PR following a three-way pitch. The brief is to raise the firm’s profile with potential clients for its [...]
Hotwire promotes Alex MacLaverty to global COO
Consumer and corporate PR agency Hotwire has promoted Alex MacLaverty from EMEA and ANZ managing director to global chief operating officer. She will report to Barbara [...]
60 Seconds with Redleaf Communications’ Guy Smith
Guy Smith, a former BBC correspondent who recently joined Redleaf Communications‘ corporate team as an associate director, offers his perspective on journalism and PR. [...]
Gong signs up for B Corp status
B2B agency Gong Communications has joined the growing global collection of B Corporations, which have met “rigorous standards” of social and environmental [...]
This week’s PR news in brief (19-23 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 Australian financial [...]
Big Partnership in £600,000 new business boost
Glaswegian communications agency Big Partnership is celebrating a raft of new business worth more than £600,000 across the energy, construction, leisure and sports sectors. [...]
Redleaf hires new capital markets director
Redleaf Communications has hired Robin Tozer, Thomas Cook’s former head of group corporate communications and an ex-senior corporate communications manager at Sky, as a [...]
Cannes 2017: PR recognised at Cannes Health & Wellness Lions
Ketchum, Edelman and Weber have been awarded Cannes Health & Wellness Lions for their work with wider advertising and marketing groups. For the first time this year, the [...]
60 Seconds with Trafalgar Strategy’s Giles Kenningham
After the recent launch of consultancy Trafalgar Strategy, David Cameron’s former press chief, Giles Kenningham, discusses why his new service provides a different offering [...]
easyHotel appoints Houston PR for corporate and consumer brief
Houston PR has been appointed by easyHotel, the international super-budget hotel chain on a combined Capital Markets, corporate and consumer brief following a competitive [...]
This week’s PR News in Brief (5-9 June)
Here’s a round-up of the essential PR stories, features and events news that have broken over the last week (5-9 June 2017). Pitch wins The Shetland Distillery Company has [...]
Grayling wins Women in Rail comms brief
Grayling has been chosen to deliver a wide-ranging integrated communications brief for Women in Rail, following a four-way pitch. Over the next two years, the agency will [...]
Grayling launches digital comms title predicting “rise of the robots”
Grayling has predicted the “rise of the robots”, and how communicators might be affected, in Me, Myself and AI, its new digital magazine examining the risks and opportunities [...]
3 essential PR insights from #CisionWorldTour London
The lively debate surrounding yesterday’s Cision World Tour event extended far beyond the packed auditorium at London’s Ham Yard Hotel. Members of the audience took to Twitter [...]
Opinion: The future of PR isn’t science fiction
Unlike jetpacks, hoverboards and flying cars, the PR technology of the future already exists, says Beattie Group’s David Walker – and it’s creating big opportunities for [...]
60 Seconds with Hill+Knowlton’s Simon Whitehead
Following Donald Trump’s announcement that the US will pull out of the Paris climate agreement, Hill+Knowlton’s energy and industrials MD, Simon Whitehead, discusses the rise [...]