01 Dec 2000
| by JENNIFER WHITEHEAD
npower, the national energy supplier formed by the merger of MEB, Calortex and Energy Direct, is putting its PR account up for pitch.
Incumbent agency Harrison Cowley will be in the running, and it is believed Shandwick International, Hill & Knowlton, Jackie Cooper Public Relations and Freud Communications...
01 Dec 2000
| by PETER SIMPSON
BT has moved its European public affairs and PR operation from London to Brussels to be 'at the heart of Europe'.
The shift is part of the company's preparation for the arrival of G3 telecommunications licences, and consolidation of European strategy with its wholly-owned companies and strategic...
01 Dec 2000
As well as running around The Hague for client Future Forests, environmental and social responsibility specialist Synapse Communication has found the time to practise what it preaches. It's the first PR agency to go carbon-neutral.
This means the agency, run by Tim Lewis and Greg Moore, has calculated...
17 Nov 2000
| by GIDON FREEMAN
United Utilities is reviewing its financial PR and public affairs accounts in the wake of the appointment of its new group director of communications.
17 Nov 2000
| by GIDON FREEMAN
Xerox, the world's biggest photocopier firm, has handed a pounds 650,000 annual pan-European PR account to Kinross and Render.
17 Nov 2000
Diabetes UK campaign director Mark Flannagan is leaving the charity to head up marketing and communications at the newly-launched internet community activism organisation Advocacy Online (AO).
20 Oct 2000
| by GIDON FREEMAN
The Electricity Association has merged its parliamentary and media relations portfolios and drafted in Christine Milburn to fill the new combined post.
13 Oct 2000
British Energy has re-appointed Hill and Knowlton as its public affairs agency following a review of the account and a competitive pitch. The six-figure fee account, which has been at H&K for more than ten years, will be run by managing director of public and corporate affairs Andrew Pharoah.
06 Oct 2000
Award-winning industrial journalist and former Sunday Times business editor Andrew Lorenz has joined Financial Dynamics as a director.
29 Sep 2000
RWE, the German multi-utility, has turned to Financial Dynamics to oversee all PR for its pounds 4.3 billion cash takeover bid for Thames Water - Britain s biggest supplier.