Virgin Mobile reviews PR agency contracts
21 Mar 2003 | by Ian Hall
Virgin Mobile is reviewing both its consumer and product PR work, accounts currently retained by Consolidated Communications and Big-mouths PR.
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LOS ANGELES/LONDON: US celebrity publicity firm PMK/HBH, which represents stars such as Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp, is set to open a London office.
Virgin Mobile is reviewing both its consumer and product PR work, accounts currently retained by Consolidated Communications and Big-mouths PR.
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CONSUMER: Nelson Bostock Communications has been appointed as retained agency to telecoms firm Telco Holdings. The firm has more than 750,000 UK residential and business customers, and is a distributor of top-up mobile phone vouchers and pre-pay cards.
Edelman PR Worldwide this week picked up Orange's B2B PR business, put out to pitch last month (PRWeek, 19 July).
Mobile network O2's UK head of corporate communications William Ostrom has left the firm to set up his own PR agency.
SOFIA: Porter Novelli International has partnered with an affiliate agency in Bulgaria. The firm - APRA, which was founded in 1994 - has client experience including UDV, Nestle, IBM and Bulgarian mobile phone firm GloBul. The deal takes PNI's international reach into a 57th country.
DUBLIN: Vodafone Ireland has appointed Edelman PR, Bill O'Herlihy Communications and Gallagher & Kelly PR to its agency roster following a review of all communications.
SCOTLAND: Scottish agency Great Circle has been hired to handle PR for a Scottish Enterprise-funded group that aims to promote telecommunication innovations north of the border. Great Circle won the account with Mobile Business Alliance Scotland following a three-way pitch.
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