HANOVER: PR news agency na europe is providing exclusive press coverage for next year's CeBIT technology exhibition, which claims to be the world's largest trade show. Organisers of the event have hired na's parent firm news aktuell for the fifth year in a row to distribute exhibitors' press...
Sir Martin Sorrell set a sombre tone for the year end at the UBS Warburg Media Week conference in the US last week, when he confirmed that his diversification into public relations had not, as he hoped, rendered WPP recession proof. His predictions for marketing services were downbeat and he...
HONG KONG: Hang Seng Bank head of corporate comms Walter Cheung has won the PR Professional of the Year gong at the Asian PRWeek Awards. Mike Rowse, director-general of investment promotion with Invest Hong Kong, won this year's Communicator of the Year award, and Burson-Marsteller's Beijing...
SERVICES: Single Market Events has launched RSVP, an event aimed at providing PR agencies with access to more than 100 suppliers of launch and event services. The event will take place at the London Business Design Centre on 13-14 February 2002.
CONSUMER: Lexis Public Relations has been taken on to handle promotions for the Brand Events-owned Vitality Show 2002, to run at London Olympia and Manchester G-Mex next year. The appointment follows Lexis' acquisition of event-specialists Propeller Direction (PRWeek, 26 October).
CLARIFICATIONS: Real Business, the magazine jointly hosting the Confederation of British Industry's Growing Business Awards with the CBI, is published by Caspian Publishing, and not Reed Business Publications, as stated last week. The incumbent agency on the Nestle Foodservice account (PRWeek,...
Start-up news release distributor na europe has launched a series of conferences and seminars aimed at building better links between PROs and journalists. na europe founder and chairman David Davis said the initiative, The Media Forum, was a result of the way technology had eroded the...
EMAP ELAN: Red magazine, the Emap Elan title that targets affluent, urban thirtysomething women, is to hold a seminar 'How to talk to middle youth' on 17 January 2002. Speakers include BBC2 controller Jane Root and the writer and producer of ITV1's Cold Feet, Christina Langan and David Nicholls.
HEART 106.2: Heart 106.2 is to be the official London radio partner for raceforlife 2002, a series of fundraising events for women in aid of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Eight 5km runs or walks will be held during spring and summer 2002.
TECHNOLOGY: Reed Business Publications has hired the Clareville Consultancy to handle publicity surrounding Bill Gates' keynote speech at the Real Business/CGI Growing Business Awards 2001, as well as publicity for the awards themselves. It will be Gates' first public speech in the UK for two...
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