10 Feb 2012
| by John Owens
comms positions at a number of organisations, including the British Embassy in Spain, the Council of Europe and Lambeth Council. Barbara Young, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: The appointment ...
10 Feb 2012
| by Alec Mattinson
international capital markets and related City PR agencies, though there remain few signs the effect...transactions and related City project
briefs remained far from ideal. Nonetheless, there have been a number ...
from emerging
markets. One January process saw key City agencies in London pitching for the
$3bn IPO ...
in
2011, only a small handful ever came to fruition - leading one City boss
to dismiss most of these PR ...
The Local Government Association has appointed Hillingdon Council's well-connected comms head...David Holdstock has joined the association for councils in England and Wales as director of comms, from Hillingdon, where he was head of corporate comms.
Luke Blair, who as board director of London ...
at Slough Borough Council for five years. Before that, he was a senior PR officer at the Met Police where he ...
09 Feb 2012
| by Polly Rance
Alex Aiken from Westminster City Council wrote recently in PRWeek that pressures on council tax...that when communicating with residents about local services and how we fund them, the debate around council ...
. Whilst it suits Whitehall to keep the debate focused on council tax (sample rhetoric: Councils have a moral duty to freeze tax ), for many councils, especially those serving deprived communities, the vast ...
Frank PR has been brought in by Camden Council to help raise the profile of the area following...The brief, issued by the council in collaboration with the local business improvement body Camden Town Unlimited, has called in locally based Frank PR to communicate the positive aspects of the area and to attract visitors.
Frank has developed a smartphone app that showcases the best the area has to offer ...
international capital markets and related City PR agencies, though there remain few signs the effect...transactions and related City project briefs remained far from ideal.
Nonetheless, there have been a number ...
from emerging markets.
One January process saw key City agencies in London pitching for the $3bn IPO ...
in 2011, only a small handful ever came to fruition leading one City boss to dismiss most of these PR ...
The City agency has appointed to its board Hilary Tuppen, an existing partner at Tulchan, and private equity specialist Hamish Mackenzie. They replace Cohn Wolfe founder, former UK CEO of Burson-Marsteller and international president at Edelman Alison Canning, and former Boots finance director Howard Dodd, who have both ...
Former Independent City editor and Barclays media relations director Jason Nisse is joining...City and corporate PR, and public affairs. Clare commented: Jason is one of the most experienced PR ...
02 Feb 2012
| by Alex Aiken
The Government has set councils a little reputation test for 2012. They have been offered a one....
Alex Aiken is director of comms and strategy at Westminster City Council ...
of not just how a good reputation can be maintained, but also what you should do with it.
Council Tax ...
year; any freeze now will have to be covered by a rise next year.
The Government wants councils ...
02 Feb 2012
| by Anthony Hilton
, it is not surprising the value of the comment is plummeting. Anthony Hilton, City commentator on London's Evening ...