Weber Shandwick buys Flipside
Weber Shandwick has acquired Flipside, a specialised mobile and digital agency, for an undisclosed sum. Flipside will retain its name and work with Weber Shandwick to deliver [...]
Aspectus appoints Michael House as account director
Aspectus, the B2B agency specialising in financial services, technology, energy and engineering, has appointed Michael House as an account director on its technology team. [...]
Weber Shandwick’s former tech MD launches content business
Peter Ross, former MD and EVP of Weber Shandwick’s EMEA tech practice, is launching a content writing business Ross Content Writing & Consulting to support corporate, [...]
Teneo integrates UK businesses under Teneo Blue Rubicon
Global CEO advisory firm Teneo has integrated its entire UK strategic comms businesses, including Blue Rubicon, under the new name Teneo Blue Rubicon. The move follows Teneo’s [...]
Lansons appoints Rollo Crichton-Stuart
Lansons has hired Rollo Crichton-Stuart as board director to strengthen the consultancy’s financial comms remit. Crichton-Stuart joins from an associate partner role at Bell [...]
Walbrook PR retained by IPPlus
Walbrook PR, which provides financial PR and investor relations to small cap and AIM-listed companies, has been retained by IPPlus to support its relaunch as a high growth [...]
Bell Pottinger appoints Ian Shackleton to financial and corporate team
Nomura MD Ian Shackleton has been appointed principal of Bell Pottinger’s corporate and financial team. Shackleton has worked for a number of investment banks including James [...]
Opinion: How to pitch to broadcast media
Good Broadcast this week welcomed BBC journalist Jack Baine onto its team as a consultant. Working on programmes including BBC World News TV, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat and BBC [...]
Twitter appoints Kristin Binns as senior comms director
Twitter has brought in Kristin Binns, VP for comms at health insurance firm Anthem, as senior comms director. Binns will handle all consumer and corporate PR activity for the [...]
Forster Communications on how focusing on social change is good for business
As B Lab announces the agency’s success, Peter Gilheaney, Forster Communications’ PR director, talks to Gorkana about how it has won the awards for good business [...]
Redwood announces client wins
Specialist real estate communications consultancy, Redwood Consulting has been appointed byOxfordshire business and science park MEPC Milton Park, Silverstone Technology [...]
RNTS Media appoints Newgate
Berlin-based mobile advertising technology provider, RNTS Media, has appointed Newgate Communications to provide financial PR, corporate PR and investor relations services. [...]
BBC’s Jack Baine joins Good Relations’ broadcast arm
Former BBC journalist Jack Baine has joined Good Relations’ broadcast arm, Good Broadcast, as a consultant. Baine spent more than 20 years at the BBC as a senior journalist [...]
iPhone 7 launch: comms pros on Apple’s PR strategy in 2016
Apple has altered its social media strategy as it prepares for its biggest launch event of the year. Ahead of the product launch later this week, Gorkana asks PRs from Babel, [...]
Nayyar and Seewoosurrun launch corporate comms agency Acuitas
Simon Nayyar and Samantha Seewoosurrun have launched a corporate communications agency Acuitas Communications with offices in three capital cities. Nayyar was previously the [...]
Edelman appoints UK general manager, digital
Edelman UK has appointed Toby Gunton, head of innovation at media agency OMD UK, to the newly-created role of general manager, digital. With more than 20 years’ industry [...]
Spreckley opens in Stirling to target Scotland’s tech sector
PR consultancy Spreckley is looking to capitalise on the growing digital technology sector in Scotland with the opening of a satellite office in Stirling. The central [...]
TOMRA appoints Brand8 PR to global corporate brief
TOMRA, an innovative resource, manufacturing and recycling solutions business with an HQ in Norway, has appointed Leeds-based Brand8 PR to deliver a global corporate PR [...]