22 Oct 2004
| by Ian Hall
McDonald's top UK PR man is head of corporate affairs Nick Hindle, a mellow 38-year-old from Nottinghamshire, who munches away on fruit toast while meeting PRWeek for breakfast at a branch on The Strand. 'Welcome to the future of McDonald's,' he opens, indicating this flagship outlet's retro design ...
25 Sep 1998
| by IAN DARBY
Barclays Bank is losing Nick Cobban, PR head for its Retail
Financial Services division, after 16...Barclays Bank is losing Nick Cobban, PR head for its Retail
Financial Services division, after 16 years.
Cobban will leave Barclays at the end of the year and is looking at
other in ...
deciding whether to replace Cobban. He said: Nick is
an experienced operator and him going is a loss ...
22 Feb 2002
Oil giant Shell International is losing its UK external affairs
chief Nick Welch after five years
13 Oct 2000
| by GIDON FREEMAN
by the departure of Nick Archer to Ogilvy PR Worldwide....Edelman PR Worldwide has filled its top public affairs post vacated earlier this month by the departure of Nick Archer to Ogilvy PR Worldwide.
The agency has poached Tesco European public affairs manager Bernard Hughes. He joins Edelman next month after more than nine years in Tesco s government ...
19 May 2000
| by RICHARD EDWARDS
to
Accesorize managing director Nick Schwefel....Midnight Communications has been handed the consumer PR brief for
Accessorize.co.uk, the retailer s new web site. Midnight s London
managing director Lindsay Edmunds will lead the account reporting to
Accesorize managing director Nick Schwefel.
...
01 Sep 2000
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Electrical goods retailer The Dixon Group has poached Lesley Smith,
director of public affairs at Burson-Marsteller, for the newly-created
post of public affairs director.
10 Dec 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Perfect Home has named Liz Walker as editor, following the
promotion of Julia Smith to the publisher s chair. Perfect Home is
published by DMG Home Interest Magazines. Walker was previously editor
of Photo Technique and has been working as a freelance for titles such
as Homes and Ideas and Ideal Home...
10 Dec 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Dennis Publishing is to launch its first glossy women s title in
February 2000, and has recruited Rachel Shattock, who edits NatMags M,
as editor.
01 Oct 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
BARCELONA: Marks and Spencer has hired SCR Relaciones Publicas to
promote the opening of its eighth store in Spain. SCR pitched against
Bassat Ogilvy Group, which is M retained PR agency across Spain, and
Tandem DDB, which has won the advertising for the launch. The new
seven-floor store is the second...
01 Oct 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Open, the digital interactive channel due to launch later this
month, has signed up the Gadget Shop to join retailers including Argos,
Dixons, Next and WHSmith in its home shopping offering. The Gadget Shop
has 32 branches in the UK, selling gifts from lava lamps to giant
inflatable tulips.