14 Dec 2001
CORPORATE: Mellon Global Investments, Mellon Financial's asset
management arm, has hired Jamie ...
14 Dec 2001
TORONTO: Nokia has chosen Apex PR as its agency of record in
Canada. The company previously retained National PR, but the agency
resigned the account over a client conflict. Six agencies pitched for
the work. Apex will handle media relations, executive profiling and
support for sponsorship events.
14 Dec 2001
MADRID: Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal
Europe and Dow Jones Newswires, has appointed Spanish PR firm Grupo
Albion. The Madrid-based IR consultancy will handle all PR for Dow Jones
in Spain and Portugal. Grupo Albion MD Moore Mayorga heads the account,
leading a team...
14 Dec 2001
HANOVER: PR news agency na europe is providing exclusive press
coverage for next year's CeBIT technology exhibition, which claims to be
the world's largest trade show. Organisers of the event have hired na's
parent firm news aktuell for the fifth year in a row to distribute
exhibitors' press...
14 Dec 2001
TOKYO: Boeing has confirmed Japanese PR agency PRAP is to replace
eight-year incumbent Weber Shandwick Worldwide as its agency in Japan,
following news last week the firm was in the running for the brief
(PRWeek, 7 December). In the UK, Boeing hired Harrison Cowley as the
first ever agency to...
14 Dec 2001
JEDDAH: Jeddah-based consultancy Landmark PR, the PR arm of
regional ad agency DDB-Promoaction, has hired recently-launched
UK-headquartered PR firm IC2 to provide strategic and tactical planning.
IC2 director of international operations Roger Fennings leads the
account with a brief to develop...
14 Dec 2001
PARIS: UK-based information management firm KVS has taken on Paris
technology PR firm Rumeur Publique for a strategic communications brief
across France. KVS hired Rumeur after opening a French office. This
followed office launches in Australia, Germany and the US. KVS retains
Devonshire Marketing...
14 Dec 2001
DUBLIN: IVAX Pharmaceuticals has hired Plunkett Communications to
handle PR across Ireland. Account director Ciara Sweeney leads the
brief. Other recent client wins include the Nuremore Hotel & Country
Club and the New House Interiors & Garden Show, which is co-ordinated by
Expo Exhibitions....
14 Dec 2001
| by MARK JOHNSON
the consolidation of its 42m global PR
operations.
Decisions in other Asian markets ...
14 Dec 2001
| by JOE LEPPER
other countries. Bravo reports to
Richard Constant, the agency's global CEO.
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