26 Nov 1999
| by ED SHELTON
GCI Jane Howard has won a four-way pitch to run a PR campaign for
WH Smith s retail operation....GCI Jane Howard has won a four-way pitch to run a PR campaign for
WH Smith s retail operation ...
aspects of the retailer s
trade.
We will be supporting everything they are doing ...
Spackman, PR executive at WH Smith retail and the reporting point
for the agency, said Jane Howard ...
26 Nov 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
High street retail outlets British Home Stores and Mothercare will
be looking for new corporate...High street retail outlets British Home Stores and Mothercare will
be looking for new corporate affairs teams following the announcement
this week that parent company Storehouse is to split them.
Poor profit performance and a falling share price have led to a plan for
a division of the two ...
26 Nov 1999
| by ANDREW HOLT
.com, the on-line sports retailer which
is set to launch specialist Dutch and Belgian sites next year....THE HAGUE: Shandwick Netherlands has been appointed to carry out
financial and consumer PR for boo.com, the on-line sports retailer which
is set to launch specialist Dutch and Belgian sites next year.
The campaign will focus on raising awareness about the site especially
among fashion ...
26 Nov 1999
| by RICHARD EDWARDS
supermarket
retailing as we know it.
Wal-Mart is not the first cut price retailer to set foot ...
in the early-1990s. But the entrance of Wal-Mart isn t
simply one more cut-price retailer on the scene.
Wal-Mart is the biggest retailer in the world, renowned for sourcing
pretty much anything from ...
19 Nov 1999
| by GIDON FREEMAN
Leeds marketing communications agency Brahm has launched a fashion
and retail division. Brahm has...Leeds marketing communications agency Brahm has launched a fashion
and retail division. Brahm has hired Ellie Mayers, who previously headed
press and promotion at Italian clothes label Gas Clothing, to lead the
division.
Mayers brought in her first client, designer fashion retailer ...
19 Nov 1999
| by MARY COWLETT
retailers have chosen to sidestep this price battle and
concentrate on consumers other great concern ...
of programmes covering issues from food safety
and additives to animal welfare. As the first food retail chain ...
-house team to gain a
competitive edge in consumer, corporate and retail coverage.
Other supermarkets ...
19 Nov 1999
| by ANDREW HOLT
The staff behind Iceland s Eggs show their true colours campaign
were obviously born to the job.
The media gave generous coverage to the fact that Iceland is the first
UK food retailer to remove colorants from chicken feed. It is now
feeding its birds on a natural diet, producing paler ...
19 Nov 1999
| by ANDREW HOLT
Cubitt Consulting has won the financial PR account for troubled
supermarket chain Somerfield following a pitch against Ludgate.
The move by the retailer, which last week announced it was selling 140
Somerfield stores as well as 342 Kwik Save stores, acquired last year
after its merger ...
12 Nov 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
to hire Cubitt Consulting to promote
itself to the retail and investment banking sectors. CapCo, which...Management and technology consultancy the Capital Markets Company
(CapCo) is believed to be set to hire Cubitt Consulting to promote
itself to the retail and investment banking sectors. CapCo, which
currently retains Brunswick, launched in 1998 with IBM and Morgan
Stanley as backers. Cubitt would target ...
12 Nov 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
Supermarket retailer Iceland is priming itself to hire its first
external consumer PR and public...Supermarket retailer Iceland is priming itself to hire its first
external consumer PR and public ...
of the retailer s PR strategy since Hilary Berg joined as PR
head in May this year (PR Week 7 May). She said ...
will be deployed to beef up the coverage
of retail, corporate and consumer PR. Berg is also completing a review ...