15 Dec 1999
A new business-to-business site for dealers and resellers of IT products has launched in the UK. IT-Xchange.com operates across Europe and holds inventories from 540 companies. The launch follows news that rivals e-Exchange, hyporium and acequote.com could be forming an alliance. But IT-Xchange's...
15 Dec 1999
Sherril McCahon, currently head of new media at Belfast Telegraph Newspapers, is to leave the company to start a new e-business consultancy called Paradigm. Having developed the Belfast Telegraph's online strategy, she will continue to provide consultancy services for the site through Paradigm, which...
15 Dec 1999
Publisher Emap has linked up with Channel 5 to launch a portal specifically for the UK TV production industry. The portal, produxion.com (www.produxion.com), will link television channels with production companies and enable producers to source locations, sets, studios, crews and equipment. It will...
15 Dec 1999
| by Ravi Chandiramani.
Affiliate programmes are a smart way for web sites on similar subjects to direct traffic to each other and raise their profile.
15 Dec 1999
As if to prove that the world of the web remains as wonderfully salubrious as ever, here's a press release that found its way into our grubby hands this week, from one of those new entrepreneurial internet companies we keep reading about. "Virtual Dreams Inc is proud to announce its new specialized...
03 Dec 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
UK agency Spreckley Pittham has opened a wholly-owned Australian
subsidiary under the name Spreckley Pacific, offering consumer,
business-to-business and corporate PR. According to managing director
Mike Spreckley, Brisbane was chosen as a base because it is booming
commercially, but is short on quality...
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.
26 Nov 1999
| by ANDREW HOLT
Ludgate Communications is rumoured to be attempting to bolster its
financial PR operation with a potential merger with the Maitland
Consultancy. Robin Hepburn, chief executive of Ludgate confirmed to PR
Week on 12 November that he was already in talks with one agency, which
is now believed to be Maitland.
26 Nov 1999
| by GIDON FREEMAN
Porter Novelli International (PNI) is merging its technology practice with specialist hi-tech agency and fellow Omnicom brand Copithorne and Bellows creating a single global brand.
26 Nov 1999
| by ANDREW HOLT
Technology PR company Noiseworks has had worrying calls to its
Maidenhead office.