01 Nov 2006
| by Robyn Lewis
WH Smith has promoted its corporate responsibility manager to its most senior communications role....years.
She takes responsibility for all of WH Smith's brand comms, reporting to group HR director ...
07 May 2004
| by Tom Williams
Beleaguered retailer WH Smith is on the verge of appointing a new director of comms as the company...Melissa Duncan, executive assistant to WH Smith CEO Kate Swann, is to take overall control of a ...
are in UK retail PR, which will be headed by Sarah Hodgson.
WH Smith is also axing another three PA ...
with Duncan, who is also to take charge of internal comms.
WH Smith has put on hold the account it awarded ...
04 Jul 1997
| by LISA MOORE
High street retailer WH Smith has brought in Lowe Bell Political to
aid its work...High street retailer WH Smith has brought in Lowe Bell Political to
aid its work ...
, corporate affairs director, told
PR Week that plans were well advanced.
Blythe joined WH Smith in January from Brunswick where he had headed up
the WH Smith corporate communications account. Shortly ...
10 Jan 1997
| by STEVE BEVAN
Tim Blythe joined WH Smith as director of corporate affairs. He
replaces Kevin Hawkins who quit...Tim Blythe joined WH Smith as director of corporate affairs. He
replaces Kevin Hawkins who quit the company 18 months ago to join
supermarket chain Safeway. An associate partner at Brunswick for two
years, Blythe heads a department of five staff with overall
responsibility for media relations ...
22 Oct 2004
| by Joe Lepper
High-street institutions Sainsbury’s, WH Smith and Marks & Spencer all fared poorly in this week...Sainsbury’s propped up the table again following claims it could lose 100,000 customers by the end of 2004 and the issuing of its third profit warning this year.
WH Smith was in the bottom five on the back of reports of its worst-ever trading results.
M&S plummeted to second from bottom after analysts ...
15 Jun 2009
| by Jennifer Whitehead
LONDON - Travel writers and publishers are banding together to protest against a decision by WH...including Facebook and Twitter to raise awareness of the situation with WH Smith Travel stores at airports ...
. However WH Smith did not appear to be backing down and was sticking to a statement initially released a couple of days ago explaining the decision. The campaign against WH Smith is gaining momentum and has ...
08 Dec 1995
WH Smith, the troubled high street group, has appointed its first group
press manager as part...WH Smith, the troubled high street group, has appointed its first group
press manager as part ...
in January working alongside investor relations
manager Anna Passey.
As co-ordinator of WH Smith ...
Week, 30 June).
Rodney Buse, WH Smith s personnel director and acting corporate affairs ...
22 Oct 2004
WH Smith CEO Kate Swann successfully combined two tactics when she announced the firm’s worst...to justify their identity and raison d’etre: ‘[WH Smith’s] format has outlived its purpose… only shock ...
11 Jul 1997
| by RUTH NICHOLAS
affairs at WH Smith to possess. Yet applying
cosmetics was one of the disciplines Tim Blythe was trained...affairs at WH Smith to possess. Yet applying
cosmetics was one of the disciplines Tim Blythe was trained ...
will no doubt prove useful as WH Smith
embarks on a major literacy drive with the Government. Last week ...
the
group you have the country s largest and second largest bookseller (WH
Smith and Waterstones), we have ...
10 May 1996
| by LEXIE GODDARD
WH Smith Group is investing in a new corporate PR campaign across its
businesses; WH Smith Retail...WH Smith Group is investing in a new corporate PR campaign across its
businesses; WH Smith Retail, WH Smith News, Virgin Our Price and
Waterstone s, in a bid to improve poor City and customer relations.
Company chief executive Bill Cockburn, who joined in January vowing to
shake-up WH Smith ...