AMSTERDAM: Corporate affairs bosses from some of the world's largest companies shared crisis PR experiences at last week's IPRA annual conference in Amsterdam.
AWARDS: Haslimann Taylor scooped two individual and six agency awards at the IPR's Midlands Cream Awards last week, including the Grand Prix prize for its work on snoring remedy Helps Stop Snoring. Birmingham Midshires' in-house team won four awards.
AWARD: Former US president Bill Clinton has been voted Communicator of the Year by the Foreign Press Association, ahead of Nelson Mandela and Rudy Giuliani. His award was collected by Brunswick partner James Rubin, who served in the State Department during Clinton's administration.
HONG KONG: Ogilvy PR Worldwide scooped the Network of the Year accolade at the PRWeek Asia awards.
Shine Communications chairman Rachel Bell has been named Media Boss of the Year after being nominated for the prize three years in a row.
Entries to the regional PR Cream Awards have rocketed by 25 per cent, totalling nearly 500 - up from under 400 last year.
BOSTON: Ketchum US is running the second in a series of online seminars on 3 December in association with IT research firm IDC. The seminar - accessed via registration at www.channeledge.com - will look at technology channels and the importance of PR in developing channel partners.
Metrica scooped top prize at last week's inaugural Communication Effectiveness Awards, held by the Association of Media Evaluation Companies.
TRADE BODY: The Food and Drink Federation has launched a vegetarian group to better co-ordinate promotional efforts in the sector. The group was launched this Wednesday at a FDF seminar held in London. The vegetarian specialist food industry is worth around £540m in the UK.
Exhibitions giant MICE Group is repitching its financial PR work in a bid to boost its City profile.
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