07 Dec 2001
HONG KONG: Hang Seng Bank head of corporate comms Walter Cheung has
won the PR Professional of the Year gong at the Asian PRWeek Awards.
Mike Rowse, director-general of investment promotion with Invest Hong
Kong, won this year's Communicator of the Year award, and
Burson-Marsteller's Beijing ...
30 Nov 2001
CLARIFICATIONS: Real Business, the magazine jointly hosting the
Confederation of British Industry's Growing Business Awards with the
CBI, is published by Caspian Publishing, and not Reed Business
Publications, as stated last week. The incumbent agency on the Nestle
Foodservice account ...
23 Nov 2001
AWARDS: The IPR's regional Cream Awards saw Countrywide Porter
Novelli scoop six awards, including team of the year. Elsewhere, Prowse
& Company's Peter Prowse won the Home Counties PR professional of the
year prize, and the Green Flag group won the IPR Excellence award for
Yorkshire ...
23 Nov 2001
ENTREPRENEUR AWARD: Former Age Concern parliamentary officer
Mendora Ogbogbo has been named ...
the
award after setting up her own consultancy, Parliamentary Contacts, in
June. She was one of 42 nominees for the annual award.
...
23 Nov 2001
WEBSITE AWARD: The BUPA Foundation has handed its annual
communications award to the creators of the website
www.teenagehealthfreak.org. Devised by GP Dr Ann McPherson and public
health consultant De Aidan Macfarlane, the site offers teenagers
confidential help on health issues. Judges said ...
23 Nov 2001
TECHNOLOGY: Reed Business Publications has hired the Clareville
Consultancy to handle publicity surrounding Bill Gates' keynote speech
at the Real Business/CGI Growing Business Awards 2001, as well as
publicity for the awards themselves. It will be Gates' first public
speech in the UK for two years.
...
16 Nov 2001
Business/CBI Growing Business Awards,
given each year to businesses in recognition of entrepreneurial
talent.
Firefly is a finalist for the award of Innovative Company of the Year,
while Shine is a finalist in the Most Promising Young Company of the
Year award. Both are up against three finalists from ...
16 Nov 2001
YORKSHIRE: East Riding of Yorkshire Council has been named
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire PR team of the year in this year's Institute
of Public Relations Cream Awards scheme. The team is headed by
communications and PR manager Simon Taylor.
...
16 Nov 2001
| by HOLLY WILLIAMS
Tobacco giant British American Tobacco (BAT) is launching a
corporate social responsibility initiative to improve relations with
stakeholders and critics.
BAT head of corporate social responsibility Adrian Marshall announced at
the conference that the company would be holding a series of
face ...
02 Nov 2001
| by RAY PHILPOTT
Mark Bolland, deputy private secretary to Prince Charles, scooped
the PR Professional of the Year award at the 2001 PRWeek Awards this
week.
Bolland was commended for moving the subject ...
practice. This
year's awards attracted a record 741 entries in 30 categories.
Other winners ...