28 Sep 2001
| by IAN HALL
The Government has taken on charity sector help to run its helpline
for Britons bereaved by the US terror attacks.
The Home Office, the Foreign Office, the Department for Culture, Media
and Sport and charities British Red Cross, Victim Support and Cruse
Bereavement Care teamed up within...
28 Sep 2001
| by SUTART ELLIOTT, the advertising columnist at The New York Times
A forgotten, and forgettable, United States president named Calvin
Coolidge was widely reputed to have said: "The business of America is
business."
These days, there may be business, but hardly business as usual.
Long after the 11 September terrorist attacks, the American advertising ...
28 Sep 2001
| by JOE LEPPER
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is set to launch a campaign to
promote the case for European Union enlargement.
Rashmi Choudhury has joined the FCO's public diplomacy and policy unit ...
to Warsaw in 1998, Tony Blair was the first EU leader to
call for new member states to participate ...
28 Sep 2001
Eclipse Productions has closed its doors after nine years in
business. However, the US production company Believe Media - which
shared offices with Eclipse in the United Kingdom - will continue in
business.
...
28 Sep 2001
BBC ONLINE: Guy Dresser has been lured to the BBC from Sunday
Business. He will edit BBC Online's forthcoming, as yet unnamed,
business channel. Dresser is currently editor of e-business and
management at the Sunday title. The new venture will take a variety of
stories from the BBC business unit.
...
28 Sep 2001
| by JULIA HOOD
SEATTLE, WA: Boeing's commercial airplane unit's PR team is working
to restore confidence in flying, handling hundreds of calls about the
imminent lay-off of up to 30,000 employees ...
to Chicago last month. Each of Boeing's
three major business units was given greater autonomy, with PR ...
28 Sep 2001
SCHWALBACH: Procter & Gamble in Germany has lost its corporate PR
director Christel Karesch, who has retired after 36 years with the FMCG
firm. Karesch will not be directly replaced following a PR review, which
has seen the corporate PR unit merged with scientific and consumer PR,
headed by Detlef ...
28 Sep 2001
JAKARTA: BP - formerly known as British Petroleum - is looking to
appoint a PR agency as it plans to develop the Tangguh natural gas field
in Berau Bay, off West Papua's north-west coast, with Indonesian
state-owned firm Pertamina. BP is searching for an agency as opposition
to the plans grow from ...
28 Sep 2001
Dentsu is uniting its two UK agencies, CDP and travissully, less
than four months after CDP lost its showpiece 20 million Honda
account.
Senior Dentsu executives have agreed that combining CDP's traditional
skills with travissully, which specialises in co-ordinated offline and
online ...
28 Sep 2001
| by JOHN TYLEE
's Dentsu has a 20 per cent stake.
Kamerick joins from United Stationers, where she had been working ...