14 Dec 2001
The Food Standards Agency is to target the catering sector in an
attempt to cut incidents of food poisoning by 20 per cent over the next
five years.
An initial six-month PR campaign ...
of food hygiene.
PR will be co-ordinated by the FSA's in-house team, headed by comms
director ...
14 Dec 2001
KP Foods has handed consumer PR work for its Hula Hoops brands to
Revolver Communications.
The six-figure appointment comes just a month after Lexis Public
Relations resigned its extensive consumer PR brief with KP parent United
Biscuits, which included work for the crisps brand (PRWeek, 2 ...
14 Dec 2001
| by HOLLY WILLIAMS
responding to the campaign.
Food and drink giant Nestle this week issued a statement outlining its
positive activities in the country, claiming the firm is active in
health and food safety and in skills ...
07 Dec 2001
PUBLIC AFFAIRS: McGrigor Donald Public Policy has appointed Siobhan
Mathers to its board. Mathers was formerly deputy head of the food,
health and consumer practice at Hill & Knowlton's Brussels office.
Fellow MDPP director Adam Bruce has been elected convenor of the
Association for Scottish ...
07 Dec 2001
| by CHRIS SCOTT
Hilton UK and Ireland has invited five agencies to pitch for the
food and beverage account for its recently-opened London flagship hotel,
The Trafalgar.
The hotelier has approached four ...
).
At the time the agency retained Gabrielle Shaw Communication to work on
food and beverage accounts for its ...
07 Dec 2001
CONSUMER: Haygarth Group has been appointed by pet-food
manufacturer Friskies for consumer and trade work on its Felix brand.
Brand activity will include in-store merchandising and point-of-sale
promotions, in addition to consumer PR.
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07 Dec 2001
| by JOE LEPPER
Snacks giant United Biscuits has appointed Hill & Knowlton on a
pan-European corporate and public affairs brief.
The firm, whose brands include McVitie's and KP Foods, appointed H&K to
the newly created account following a pitch in which eight agencies were
invited to tender ...
07 Dec 2001
| by HOLLY WILLIAMS
of General Mills' 7.1bn
takeover of food-maker Pillsbury, for which it acted on behalf of
Pillsbury ...
06 Dec 2001
| by Joe Lepper,
The firm, whose brands include McVitie's and KP Foods, appointed H&K to the newly created account following a pitch in which eight agencies were invited to tender.
Corporate affairs was previously handled in-house but was disbanded by UB following its takeover by the Final Realm consortium last year ...
30 Nov 2001
CONSUMER: CirKle Communications has been hired on a consumer and
trade PR brief by the company formed out of the recent merger of food
companies Del Monte and Cirio. The new company is called Cirio Del
Monte. CirKle was the incumbent for Del Monte's trade and consumer
account.
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