08 Apr 2005
APPOINTMENT: Former BT senior corporate comms manager Michael Wadley is to join Wanadoo as interim
17 Nov 2000
SINGAPORE: Ogilvy Public Relations has named Michael Rose as head of the agency's Asian technology...SINGAPORE: Ogilvy Public Relations has named Michael Rose as head of the agency's Asian technology practice, which commands over pounds 4 million in annual fees. The practice generates 45 per cent of Ogilvy's revenue in Asia. Rose transfers to Singapore from Australia, where he ran a consultancy working ...
14 Apr 2000
| by ALEX BENADY
, under the editorship of former Arena
and Sky magazine lifestyle writer Michael Jovides. The magazine...John Brown Publishing has relaunched O magazine, the customer
magazine for Orange mobile users, under the editorship of former Arena
and Sky magazine lifestyle writer Michael Jovides. The magazine will
contain articles promoting Orange products and non-competing lifestyle
goods. It will be printed three ...
29 Sep 2000
SYDNEY: Cordiant Communications Group, under CEO Michael Bungey, has snapped up the number two...SYDNEY: Cordiant Communications Group, under CEO Michael Bungey, has snapped up the number two independent PR agency in Australia, PPR. The global marketing communications giant, which also owns London PR firm Financial Dynamics and Morgen-Walke Associates in the US after its takeover of Lighthouse Global ...
06 Apr 2001
| by MICHAEL BYRNE
Client: BT
PR Team: Sinclair Mason
Campaign: Launch of Comic Relief donation phone number
Timescale: February - 16 March
Budget: Undisclosed
BT operates the phone network for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day. This
involves networking all the call centres for Red Nose...
13 Aug 1999
| by MICHAEL LEAPMAN
Siemens, the pounds 16 billion communications giant, has appointed
Nashville-based agency Ackermann PR and Marketing and Dallas-based
Hopkins and Associates from a host of global firms for two large chunks
of its PR business. Hopkins and Ackermann beat 19 national and
international agencies in Siemens...
09 Apr 1999
| by MICHAEL LEAPMAN
Telecoms and computer giant Motorola has picked Hill and Knowlton
to handle its corporate and consumer PR and public affairs in Belgium
and Luxembourg. Rowland, APCO Europe, Shandwick, Porter Novelli and
incumbent Interel Marien also competed for the work. The account will be
led by H s
European lead...
09 Apr 1999
| by MICHAEL LEAPMAN
Satellite imaging firm Dubai Space Imaging has appointed Marketing
Communications Services as its first PR agency to promote the firm among
business audiences across the Middle East and Africa. Dubai Space
Imaging is owned by US-based Space Imaging EOSTAT and provides
high-resolution satellite images...
30 Oct 1998
| by MICHAEL LEAPMAN
Telecom operator Tele 2 has appointed two agencies, Self Image and
Aromates, to promote it among consumer and technical audiences
respectively in the run-up to its French launch. Tele 2 will provide an
alternative competitively priced service to former state-owned monopoly
firm France Telecom. Self...
21 Aug 1998
| by MICHAEL LEAPMAN
Polish mobile telecoms network provider Era GSM has hired First PR
to handle a communications programme to launch its mobile phone services
on the Polish market. First PR will begin work for Era next month. The
Polish mobile phone sector is growing at a considerable rate and the top
three players, including...