The world s number one life science company, Novartis, has hired two agencies to handle its group public relations and public affairs accounts in the UK for the first time, following a competitive pitch.
Defending a hostile bid is intricate, painstaking work for PR firms representing their clients. Defences can go on for weeks on end, with plans jealously guarded to keep the opposition guessing ... usually, that is.
Following the withdrawal of Glaxo Wellcome s newest diabetes drug Romozin (troglitazone), the PR campaign being run by Manning Selvage and Lee has been suspended. Glaxo withdrew the drug after an increase in liver problems was identified among users. Around 5,000 people in the UK have been prescribed...
Alka Seltzer to Agfa firm Bayer has brought in Yorkshire Water s head of public affairs Steven Painter as its new head of communications.
Star ratings headed for the stratosphere in this year s Agency Report.
UK-based bioscience communications consultancies Hayhurst Conington Cripps (HCC) and De Facto Consultants, which handled PR for Dolly the cloned sheep, have merged. The new company, HCC.De Facto Group, has a combined turnover in excess of pounds 6 million and employs 50 staff.
Consolidated Communications is to create its first OTC healthcare team in January 1998. The team will be headed by director Helen Triggs, who joins from Cameron Choat and Partners where she was board director.
Monsanto, the US life sciences company at the centre of recent controversy over genetically modified foods, has appointed Ann Foster as director of government and public affairs in the UK.
The Chemical Industries Association (CIA) has appointed John Gardner as head of its political office. Gardner left public affairs agency GPC Market Access, where he was director of corporate affairs, last July (PR Week, 25 July). Gardner will report to CIA s head of public affairs Jenny Jones.
The Boots Company has appointed its first head of group communications, a new post which combines internal communications with a review of the communications structures of the Boots businesses.
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