11 Jun 2004
| by Anthony Hilton, anthony.hilton@haynet.com, City commentator on London's Evening Standard
the advisers that mattered were merchant bankers and corporate stockbrokers.
The Americanisation of the City ...
18 Jun 2004
| by Anthony Hilton, City commentator on London's Evening Standard, anthony.hilton@haynet.com
Headhunters do not agree on much - theirs is the bitchiest of professions - but they all share a common belief that image is everything. The firm that is fashionable gets the instructions, and success breeds success.
14 Dec 2004
| by MediaWeek
? While the City chatters about the potential fate of the Interpublic Group, the McCann World group is still acquisitive. It was reported that the company has sealed a deal to acquire Boede and Partners, a US-based advertising group focussed on technology companies. Numbers, though, were ...
07 Dec 2004
| by MediaWeek
? Real Affinity, the listed marketing services group, was trading lower after it announced it had called of a deal last week. “Following the recent placing, Real Affinity has terminated discussions with the first of a series of acquisition opportunities it is currently evaluating,” the company said....
16 Apr 2004
| by Myra Benson, head of communications at Birmingham City Council
We all know it - our own staff can be our best ambassadors, or they can be reputation wreckers if they're not in the loop, don't feel valued, and don't see the big picture of the whole organisation.
04 Aug 2004
City Guilds as head of group marketing....Moore replaces Jo Causon, who left the qualifications body in May to join brand consultancy Brandsmiths.
Moore's remit is to grow the business by meeting the needs for vocational qualifications and accelerate change within the group, completing the transformation of City Guilds into a market ...
19 May 2004
Tim Manson has joined Birmingham City Council as head of tourism and leisure. Manson, formerly
07 May 2004
| by MediaWeek
Metro International has launched its second newspaper in a week with a fifth edition for cities...in the city centre, university campus and its network of trams and buses. President and chief ...
Metro markets. “Metro’s presence in six of the latest cities in Europe ’s third ...
, Toulouse and Lille . Earlier this week, New York City became the latest US ...
26 Nov 2004
PR campaign promoting the economic benefits that the City’s financial district brings to the country....for the whole of the UK, not just London.’
The City is promoted overseas by the corporation’s Lord Mayor ...
and intensify his visits to the UK’s ‘provincial towns and cities’, as well as undertake other PR activity ...
up a Brussels office in June to ensure City views are represented within the European Union (PRWeek ...
02 Apr 2004
Their City Report 2004 showed a ‘yawning’ gap between investors and the country’s largest companies, half of which felt they maintained an effective dialogue with analysts. ‘There needs to be a different and better approach to communications with the City. This is a wake-up call for financial PR ...