01 Dec 2000
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (GDBA) has appointed a three-strong media relations team. Chris Dysons joins the GDBA as media and special projects officer, arriving from Arthritis Care where he was events manager. Advertising officer Alison Wade joins from The Gloucestershire Echo, where she...
01 Dec 2000
| by JENNIFER WHITEHEAD
Leisure giant Whitbread is to hold a pitch in the new year for the PR account for Costa Coffee, its chain of coffee stores.
No shortlist has yet been drawn up, but incumbent Communique Public ...
Jackie Cooper Public Relations will also pitch, as the agency has just been taken on by Costa Coffee ...
01 Dec 2000
| by JENNIFER WHITEHEAD
The RED Consultancy has been hired by SmithKline Beecham to handle its Lucozade Sport brand.
The appointment follows that of Hill & Knowlton earlier in the year to handle Lucozade Energy (PRWeek, 5 May). Both brands were formerly held by Bell Pottinger Public Relations.
Three agencies pitched ...
01 Dec 2000
| by JOHN FRANK and HOLLY WILLIAMS
Household International's UK subsidiary, HFC Bank, is seeking a new PR agency to handle a six-figure fee account for its Marbles credit card and associated financial services.
Martin Rutland, HFC corporate communications director, is considering several UK agencies to handle the next phase - part ...
10 Nov 2000
specialising in on and off-line public relations . The ASA says the agency failed to respond to its enquiries...The Advertising Standards Authority has made an adjudication against Fodor Wyllie over a complaint lodged about an ad which appeared in New Media Age. The ad stated Fodor Wyllie was the only agency specialising in on and off-line public relations . The ASA says the agency failed to respond to its enquiries ...
20 Oct 2000
Barker to the new post of client services director. Barker reports to Norwich office MD Patrick Peal...Band and Brown has appointed former Norwich Union brand advertising and sponsorship manager Donna Barker to the new post of client services director. Barker reports to Norwich office MD Patrick Peal and to agency CEO Nick Band in London.
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13 Oct 2000
| by BEN BOLD
Client: The Environment Agency
PR Team: icas public relations, in-house and Circus ...
, as part of a strategy to encourage the 'at risk' public to protect themselves and their property from ...
in all communication, to generate public response.
To signal the immediacy of the threat ...
13 Oct 2000
| by HOLLY WILLIAMS
Bull Information Systems - the international IT Group worth pounds 3.8 billion - has handed August.One Communications a corporate brief to update its image.
The full service agency won the pounds 250,000 fee account following a competitive four-way pitch against Hill and Knowlton, Lewis PR and Text 100, the hi ...
06 Oct 2000
| by SHEETAL MEHTA
shop DLA Upstream, as managing director of public affairs next January....lobbying shop DLA Upstream, as managing director of public affairs next January.
A DLA spokesman ...
director said: 'Stanbrook is a true heavy-hitter. He has a track record of dealing with public affairs ...
in London. However, he said a key part of his role would be to integrate not just legal and public affairs ...
29 Sep 2000
The Royal National Institute for the Blind has launched a six-month education campaign, 'Changing the way we think about Blindness'. Handled solely by the charity's in-house five-strong communications team, headed by Lynne Stockbridge, the campaign aims to change minds about sight-loss and show that...