18 Dec 2003
This has been the year of boutique PR agencies, and Shine Communications has shown itself to be the strongest among them. The agency had started to attract the attentions of blue-chip FMCG brands over ...
firepower and enthusiastic attitude.
In a year when most PR agencies suffered double-digit percentage ...
18 Dec 2003
It gives you an idea of the parlous state of the PR agency sector when the chairman of industry...Last year was hideous for PR agencies, and 2003, while still tough, has shown that at least the industry has hit the bottom of the recession.
But as agencies crawl out of the bad times, there is a recognition that the decline brought with it permanent structural change to the agency business.
Big ...
15 Dec 2003
| by Ian Hall
Cake managing director Darren Thomas has resigned.
Thomas will leave the agency, which he joined...with Cake came while working at Danone Waters, when he appointed the agency to work on a youth marketing ...
(no relation) has also quit the agency.
Thomas is moving to Sydney, Australia, for 12 months and plans to remain in PR, working as either a freelance PRO or for a PR agency.
Thomas, who joined Cake ...
12 Dec 2003
The latest PR agency Economic Barometer survey suggest firms are going into 2004 with a marked...that agencies anticipate greater year-end profits than they did in January, show increased confidence ...
downsizing in the agency sector, the survey indicates the job market also looks set to bounce back in 2004 ...
.
However, Gornall is concerned about the few agencies that were showing negative expectations. 'Fees ...
12 Dec 2003
After we revealed H K chairman David McLaren's coup in securing W1 1PR for the agency's new Soho offices (PRWeek, 5 December), it has been brought to our attention that the centre of the PR universe is Preston, where all postcodes begin PR.
The birthplace of John Inman and Wallace Gromit creator Nick ...
12 Dec 2003
| by Ian Hall
staff barbecue to mark 4 July, creating the impression of an agency with a solidly American esprit ...
's UK presence is strong. He cites agency acquisitions as a 'serious priority', hinting that at least ...
12 Dec 2003
| by Joe Lepper
partner and co-founder Charles Stewart-Smith, whose agency advises Jarvis on corporate PR, argues ...
12 Dec 2003
| by Joe Lepper
, Tesco's advisers The Maitland Consultancy, Sainsbury's agency Finsbury, and Brunswick, the firm working ...
was the first agency to win Consultancy of the Year for a third time.
NOVEMBER
The FA took drastic action ...
p9) reveals agency bosses are confident year-end profits will be greater than last year ...
11 Dec 2003
| by John Tylee,
The restructure marks the end of Chime's Roose and the Will Pond-Jones Collective agencies, which ...
.
Besides the Heresy agency, the Heresy group will include Gasoline (sales promotion), Rare (publishing ...
director, will be the group's managing director.
Farr said: "The MDs of the Heresy group agencies must ...
11 Dec 2003
agencies to pitch....had been held with any PR agencies.
Chris Bunniss, UK marketing director at SSL International, the company behind Durex, also denied plans to draft in fresh PR support, but PRWeek understands that agencies ...
are currently promoted by retained long-term incumbent Myriad PR. The agency declined to comment.
Durex also ...