03 Dec 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
Terence Gibbons, former head of national and regional PR for the
Millennium Dome, has joined Band and Brown as group account director in
charge of e-commerce clients. Reporting to chairman Nick Band and
managing director Gill Brown, Gibbons started work last month on BT
internet and web-based shopping...
03 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
Rumours of Vodafone Airtouch s hostile bid for Mannesmann began on
Monday 8 November, sparking a bitter battle. Germany ought to welcome
takeovers as being the stimulus its presently moribund economy needs,
said James Hanson in Sunday Business (28/11/99).
03 Dec 1999
| by ANDREW HOLT
with the
German financial and business press as well as broader-based media.
FD was brought on board ...
to press.
...
03 Dec 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
is that the right people talk to the press
about their product lines, to ensure consistency of message ...
.
It is all about brand awareness to the general public, not just
business press, she said.
...
26 Nov 1999
| by RICHARD EDWARDS
Kazoo Communications has been appointed to launch VZones - a new
technology that can be used by businesses for brand-building on the web.
The product, which allows users to interact in virtual cities , is
being launched by Thus - formerly Scottish Telecom - and Avaterra.com, a
US technology company...
26 Nov 1999
| by ED SHELTON
has a very sophisticated grasp of the interaction between the press
and financial markets ...
. The merger - at the time the largest in
corporate history - went smoothly from a press point of view ...
proactively and I think this is mainly why it went down
smoothly with the press and the public, he says ...
19 Nov 1999
| by ANDREW HOLT
ahead and printed a picture anyway.
As was widely reported, the press conference to launch Virgin ...
12 Nov 1999
| by JULIETTE GARSIDE
phones to the IT and internet
press....Virgin Mobile last week gave start-up new-media PR shop
Big-mouths.com the go ahead to promote its phones to the IT and internet
press.
Former Virgin Net PR head Lisa Hulme, who founded Big-mouths.com last
month, will head the account. The agency will work alongside Virgin
Mobile ...
22 Oct 1999
| by JENNIFER WHITEHEAD
The Maitland Consultancy is working on behalf of German telecoms
company Mannesmann after it approached mobile phone operator Orange with
a pounds 17 million takeover bid. Citigate Dewe Rogerson is handling
financial PR for Orange.
01 Oct 1999
| by SOPHIE BARKER
Regional press takes bigger role...Regional press takes bigger role
Clients should seek regional rather than national press coverage in the
run-up to increasing devolution, Bell Pottinger Good Relations director
David Hill said ...
press secretary Charlie Whelan expressed concern at the
level of media interest in spin doctors ...