30 Mar 2001
The Competition Commission (CC) has drafted in PR consultancy
Smithfield Financial to provide PR support for its inquiry into the
controversial proposed merger between Lloyds TSB and Abbey National.
Smithfield, headed by chairman John Antcliffe, is working on a UK
project brief to raise...
30 Mar 2001
| by HOLLY WILLIAMS
Russia's largest private bank, Alfa Bank, has appointed former
Reuters correspondent Brian ...
for the bank internationally,
excluding Russia.
Part of his immediate brief is to hire external PR ...
.
Until this year, Alfa Bank retained Hill & Knowlton for global project
work.
Mooney ...
30 Mar 2001
| by HOLLY WILLIAMS
of top officials from oil companies
and investment banks travelled to London to take part in a ...
23 Mar 2001
Investment bank Morgan Stanley Dean Witter has hired the Financial
Dynamics consumer finance team to develop a PR campaign to boost its
profile in the UK credit card market ...
Reynolds said the
bank had been very 'reactive' in its approach to PR over the last year
but is now ...
23 Mar 2001
JP Morgan Chase & Company is carrying out a complete
re-organisation of its UK and European communications function just four
months after the last PR overhaul.
The bank - formed by the merger between JP Morgan and Chase Manhattan
last year - is reviewing its PR department structure to follow ...
16 Mar 2001
| by GIDON FREEMAN
by account manager
Julia Banks and head of PR Rob Smith. The account is worth more than
pounds 2m ...
16 Mar 2001
| by GIDON FREEMAN
ATHENS: Citibank Greece - a division of the world's largest banking
and financial services company - has extended its brief at Publicom/Hill
& Knowlton to include the bank's retail arm.
The agency has worked with Citibank's Greek private banking arm for five
years.
It will now manage ...
16 Mar 2001
| by BEN BOLD
support, 69 per cent have had little or no help
from banks and that 62 per cent wanted a representative ...
). Work has also been undertaken around the Competition
Commission's report on small business banking ...
16 Mar 2001
VNU is banking on increased interest in buying IT products online
to make its May issue relaunch of PC Direct a success. Editorial will be
refocused on internet purchasing, although it will still carry mail
order content. Relaunching the 120,000-selling magazine was described as
'ripping ...
09 Mar 2001
HONG KONG: US investment bank Goldman Sachs has split its regional
corporate PR account between four agencies, breaking its relationship
with Hill & Knowlton. H&K has been retained in three markets -
Singapore, Australia and India. Edelman and Weber Shandwick have scooped
the account in Beijing and Taipei ...