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The Meat and Livestock Commission has put its PR and public affairs review on hold for six months on the back of continued unrest in the farming industry (PR Week, 27 November 1998). Corporate communications head Nicky O Reilly said: With the continued state of crisis in farming, we decided it wasn...
Deputy prime minister John Prescott s political assistant, Tony Sophoclides, is leaving to join Political Context as a senior consultant. Sophoclides has worked in Prescott s office for over four years. At Political Context, He will report to agency chairman Leighton Andrews.
Oxford and Cambridge boat race sponsor Aberdeen Asset Management has hired Ketchum to manage media relations and handle PR for the event. Ketchum won the account last week without a pitch and will work on the project alongside Penrose, the investment management firm s financial PR agency.
Wyeth Laboratories has hired GCI Healthcare to promote a new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis called Enbrel. Fees are expected to top pounds 100,000 for the trade account which was won following a four-way pitch two weeks ago. Rheumatoid arthritis is a severe inflammatory condition which affects up...
Soccer s hardman, Vinnie Jones, is to team up with the ex-England captain, Gary Lineker, in a new television ad for Walkers Crisps. Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO inherited the Lineker campaign from BMP DDB last year. - The Sun
BA has set up a campaigns unit within its communications department and is seeking a co-ordinator to lead it. The six-strong team is responsible for planning PR on long-term issues facing the airline, such as the planning inquiry over a fifth terminal at Heathrow airport and the millennium bug.
Body Shop internal communications manager Iva Schroeder has left the company. Her departure follows that of Didier Lagae, media and internal communications head, and of global communications head Marina Galanti, in December. After Lagae, Schroeder was the most senior member of the internal communications...
The National Federation of Women s Institutes (NFWI) has appointed its first in-house public relations officer, Sangeeta Haindl, in a bid to shed its jam and Jerusalem image. Prior to this the NFWI had used the services of Harrison Bergman.
Emap Active, the recently formed consumer publishing division of Emap plc, has appointed Vital PR. The account, valued at around six figures, was awarded after a competitive pitch. Vital worked on a project basis to officially launch the Active brand last October. The agency will handle consumer PR...
So, the Chancellor has gone for a Roundhead as his next press secretary, and one of our industry...So, the Chancellor has gone for a Roundhead as his next press secretary, and one of our industry s foremost Cavaliers has lost his head. For the national press, the news will make a dreary January seem even worse, but for the PR industry the response must surely be - three cheers. For a ...
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