Copland rises in Brodeur restructure
11 Dec 1998 | by KATHY GREENE
Hi-tech communications specialist Brodeur Worldwide has implemented a restructure of its UK-based management team at Brodeur A Plus.
Scandinavian IT firm EC Soft has selected Key Communications to handle its UK media relations. Key, which won the account after a competitive pitch last month, will promote the firm in the business and IT sectors.
Hi-tech communications specialist Brodeur Worldwide has implemented a restructure of its UK-based management team at Brodeur A Plus.
Disney Interactive, which produces PC and video games, has hired Talk Loud PR to handle consumer and trade PR for its portfolio of products and to launch several new titles.
Baan Germany, the US/Dutch-based business software company, last week hired hi-tech specialist Fink and Fuchs to handle its corporate and trade PR in Germany. The agency pitched against two other firms, Kohtes and Klewes and Kaltwasser PR, for the account, which is believed to carry fees well into six...
Reed Business Information has promoted Computer Weekly editor Helena Sturridge to the roles of publisher for both her current magazine and recruitment supplement Computer Weekly Xtra!, and editorial director for all the nine magazines and five web sites within the Reed Computer Group.
Hi-tech specialist The Words Group has launched a financial services arm, to be known as The Financial Word.
The head of the Weber Group s Silicon Valley office, Harry Pforzheimer, is leaving to take up an equivalent post at Edelman PR Worldwide. As general manager, he will report to Edelman s hi-tech global practice head, Paul Bergevin, and oversee the firm s 40-strong staff based in Palo Alto, California....
SRRP has won a competitive pitch to promote a new international hi-tech exhibition, the Forum des Hautes Technologies, which is scheduled to be held in Paris next February. The agency will handle all media relations for the exhibition, which will showcase 200 companies. The forum was set up earlier...
UK entertainment software company Rebellion has handed its first PR account to specialist agency Bastion. Bastion will mainly promote the company in the specialist, trade and lifestyle press next year. Rebellion is due to launch two computer games, Aliens vs Predator and Rainbow 6, in 1999.
Hi-tech PR has been a boom industry. Annual fee income increases of 30 or 40 per cent have been common in recent years and some medium-sized agencies have even managed growth rates of 70 per cent or more.
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