21 Dec 2005
| by Drew Barrand
by Chancellor Gordon Brown to abolish the Operating and Financial Review (OFR) legislation....The IPA's director-general, Hamish Pringle, said he was shocked by the
U-turn. The legislation, which only came into force in April, required
disclosure by quoted companies of relevant non-financial information,
including marketing measures. 'We feel as if we have been led up the garden path only to find ...
15 Dec 2005
| by by Joe Lepper
A priority for Occam will be to help the London to France and Belgium rail link better target its most frequent customers through its DM activity.
A key message Eurostar is seeking to hammer home to its customers is anticipated faster journey times when work to its new base at St Pancras rail station ...
09 Dec 2005
| by Our Parliamentary correspondent
of mailshots. The Tories
spent £4.5 million (up from £1.2 million last time), Labour
£2.7 million (up from £1 ...
08 Dec 2005
| by by Sam Matthews
As well as coverage at all Uefa matches, the sponsorship gives MasterCard the opportunity to offer its 25,000 member financial institutions exclusive access to football assets to help them create business-building programmes to drive card acquisition, activation and usage.
MasterCard, which has been ...
08 Dec 2005
| by Hannah Marriott
S for three years and before that handled comms for the Financial Times. She has been replaced internally at M ...
08 Dec 2005
| by Anthony Hilton
best to broach this sensitive point, the Financial Times reported that one of its former journalists ...
08 Dec 2005
Beattie Communications has sold Beattie Financial to investor relations and corporate comms...Three staff, including Beattie Financial head and Beattie Communications executive vice-chairman Brian Coleman-Smith, have transferred to Cubitt as a result of the deal. Beattie Financial has a fee income of £350,000 and specialises in financial comms for small to mid-cap companies. Clients include ...
08 Dec 2005
| by Tom Williams
spent four years at the agency. Wall House Consulting founder Rupert Ashe set up the financial PR practice acquired by Grey in 1997 that later became the ill-fated GCI Financial. And Red Door ...
(see box). Wheeler admits the 2003 closure of GCI Financial after a crash in M A work meant the group ...
08 Dec 2005
| by Daniel Rogers
's reputation; while Sir Ken Morrison's eponymous chain had a torrid time in the media. Of course ...
financial results. Outgoing leader Rod Eddington made huge efforts to be open and frank with the media ...
08 Dec 2005
| by Adam Hill
lot of time in one-to-one relationships with journalists and pride ourselves on open, honest ...
time CEO Sir Terry Leahy revealed Tesco was barely a fifth of the way into an aggressive international ...
the single highest attribute that CEOs can possess, ahead of even their record and financial awareness ...