17 Apr 1998
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Retail newsagent chain Forbuoys has picked Consolidated
Communications as its first PR agency...Retail newsagent chain Forbuoys has picked Consolidated
Communications as its first PR agency, to promote its move into
convenience shopping to the retail and management media.
The chain is part of TM Group Holdings, the company created through a
management buy-out from tobacco company Gallaher ...
01 Jul 2005
Westminster City Council is trying to stem the exodus of West End shoppers to out-of-town retail...Many West End shoppers have switched to retail centres, such as Bluewater in Kent and Lakeside in Essex, because of the congestion charge and anti-social behaviour in Leicester Square, hitting businesses in the area, according to Westminster. Last weekend, the recently formed West End Marketing ...
17 Apr 1998
| by IAN DARBY
retail financial services
division, the largest of the four divisions created in its recent
restructure....retail financial services
division, the largest of the four divisions created in its recent ...
are still seeking to fill the top job on the retail
side.
The retail financial services division ...
and the Caribbean, private banking and retail stockbroking.
Barclays restructuring, which took effect from 1 ...
15 Oct 2004
title in the UK, with a circulation of more than 2.2 million.
Meanwhile, other retailers, including ...
, according to Mintel, there were 52 retail and distribution-type titles operating last year, and the sector ...
24 Jul 1998
| by KATHY GREENE
for its first move into the retail
investment market....for its first move into the retail
investment market.
The banking group has become the first UK ...
awareness of the funds among retail investors. Morgan Stanley
claims the funds will create greater ...
was formed in 1997 following a merger between
investment bank Morgan Stanley and retail broker Dean Witter ...
06 Dec 2002
FINANCE: UK retail shareholders are demanding more communication from companies, according to a
01 Jul 2005
| by Ian Hall
The review comes as the firm - which operates the PC World, The Link, Currys and Dixons retail chains in the UK - prepares to change its name to DSG International to reflect its overseas ambitions.
Director of corporate affairs Kai Boschmann, who joined in February from Burger King, told PRWeek she ...
12 Dec 2008
Campaign: Netto - Tackling the stigma
Client: Netto
PR team: Public PR
Timescale: August 2007 to August 2008
Budget: Undisclosed, but estimated at around £50,000
The discount supermarket Netto's days of unexciting stores stocked with
unfamiliar European products are gone, so the company asked...
28 Apr 2000
| by SAM PARKHOUSE
Clothing and retail group Daks Simpson has appointed Aurelia PR in
a bid to rebuild its retail...Clothing and retail group Daks Simpson has appointed Aurelia PR in
a bid to rebuild its retail image.
Daks, which is owned by Japanese clothing group Sankyo Seiko, is aiming
for renewed focus on its retail outlets following the loss of its
28-year clothing manufacturing contract ...
20 Jun 2002
| by Joe Lepper,
LONDON - BT's largest division, BT Retail, is on the hunt for an agency to handle most of its PR...., Band & Brown Communications and Lewis PR.
All currently handle PR for BT Retail except Lewis, whose ...
.
BT Retail head of corporate affairs Peter Willmott said: 'We are looking for one agency to carry out ...
to make a decision on which agency that will be.'
The pitch process is being handled by BT Retail PR ...