29 Jan 1999
| by ANTHONY CLARK
The Welsh Development Agency has appointed Owain Betts as media
relations executive for its Mid...The Welsh Development Agency has appointed Owain Betts as media
relations executive for its Mid and North Wales divisions. He joined the
newly-created agency this month from the Shropshire Star where he ...
-Wales correspondent for the Western Mail. Betts s new
role will be to promote the agency s schemes and initiatives ...
29 Jan 1999
| by MAGGIE BROWN
following a five-way pitch. The agency
will help attract firms to a range of new specialist business parks...last week following a five-way pitch. The agency
will help attract firms to a range of new specialist ...
29 Jan 1999
| by JOHN TYLEE
.
Under the streamlining, Osprey Park, the group s agency arm, and Park
Direct and CSP, its direct ...
s or Mother but we are going
to be more pro-active.
The merger creates a new integrated agency ...
29 Jan 1999
| by SIMON ELLERY
Barclays Bank s high street arm is to cut its use of external
agencies from 12 to around five...Barclays Bank s high street arm is to cut its use of external
agencies from 12 to around five ...
PR agencies.
Their numbers are to be cut after the review found excessive
duplication. Charles Barker BSMG, Harrison Cowley, Sector PR, GCI Group,
and Barkers PR are among the agencies ...
29 Jan 1999
| by ROBERT GRAY
agencies. Brunswick last year handled Bilton s unsuccessful
fight against takeover by Slough Estates ...
the world.
Already this year, he adds, the agency is representing French company
IMetal in its bid ...
listing.
What this means for financial PR agencies is that the nature of their
business ...
29 Jan 1999
| by CLAIRE COZENS
Procter & Gamble has ditched Euro RSCG Worldwide from its global
agency roster....Procter These moves are part of an ongoing effort to simplify the agency
line-up for our brands ...
.
The decision is especially difficult because Euro RSCG has been a good
agency partner for many years but ...
with global agencies.
Euro RSCG has seen its P s billings in Europe and around 3 per cent in North ...
29 Jan 1999
| by SIMON ELLERY
Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever is seeking its first
dedicated UK public affairs agency....agency.
The firm is in the early stages of the tender process and has not
invited agencies ...
within a month.
Unilever s global agency of record is Burson-Marsteller, whose brief so
far has ...
relations head (PR Week, 22 May
1998). The selected agency will report to Grantham.
The public ...
29 Jan 1999
| by CLAIRE COZENS
Fallon McElligott has hired its first creative team since the
agency s official launch in October....Fallon McElligott has hired its first creative team since the
agency s official launch ...
of
agencies on placement before landing the job at BMP. Most recently they
were at Mother, where they wrote ...
.
Fallons is a brilliant US agency but it is because of Richard and Andy
that we are going.
...
29 Jan 1999
| by FRANCESCA NEWLAND
, as the agency s chief executive and
managing director, Mark Lund, moves away from the day-to-day running..., as the agency s chief executive and
managing director, Mark Lund, moves away from the day-to-day running of
the agency.
Tom Knox, deputy managing director, and Richard Warren, head of
planning, are taking up ...
in the move, said: It will give me more time to be the external face of
the agency. I m also going ...
29 Jan 1999
| by SOPHIE BARKER
Takeover target Mirror Group this week hired financial PR agency
Finsbury to replace five...Takeover target Mirror Group this week hired financial PR agency
Finsbury to replace five-year incumbent Financial Dynamics.
The move came a few hours after the resignation of the newspaper group ...
. The agency will report to Montgomery s replacement, John
Allwood.
Financial Dynamics reported ...