13 Apr 2001
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sponsorship of the Spirit of Hong Kong yacht, which is participating in
the BT Global Challenge race ...
13 Apr 2001
PARIS: The Gaullist political party RPR, led by head of state
Jacques Chirac, is seeking a spokesman to replace Patrick Devedjian, who
stepped down last month. Part of his job is being handed to Valerie
Terranova, who has been named head of the party's international
relations.
13 Apr 2001
NEW YORK: Ketchum's workplace communications and change management
practice has acquired New York-based Stromberg Consulting, a management
consulting firm that specialises in change management comms. Ketchum has
renamed its division Ketchum Inside following the deal, although
Stromberg continues...
13 Apr 2001
HONG KONG: Golin/Harris Forrest has won a brief with McDonald's
restaurants to conduct media training workshops for its China regional
managers. G/H Forrest has also been awarded a marketing and brand
strategy brief with consumer products company Kimberley-Clark in Hong
Kong.
13 Apr 2001
WASHINGTON: APCO Worldwide has hired Don Riegle as chairman of
government affairs less than a month after he left Shandwick. He
replaces Mike Johnson, who left last month for The OB-C Group. APCO
recorded revenues of pounds 30m in 2000.
13 Apr 2001
PARIS: France's Health Ministry has named Mary Sills, the former
comms adviser to President Francois Mitterrand, as director of comms and
special adviser to health minister Bernard Kouchner. Prior to her latest
role, Sills acted as comms chief for European and international affairs
at France's...
13 Apr 2001
MILAN: Italian food firm The Cirio Company has turned to
Wimbledon-based Haygarth Group to run a PR and marketing campaign to
support its core range of tomato products in the UK. Cirio is extending
its tomato brand into stores such as Tesco and Safeway. A team of four
report to Cirio international...
13 Apr 2001
SINGAPORE: Upstream Asia, the Hong Kong-based hi-tech PR
specialist, has launched its second office in Singapore and hired Mark
Leeper as MD. He joins from Newell Public Relations, where he was
account director. Its latest Singapore bureau will be led by Janet
Simone Lim. Upstream plans to have...
13 Apr 2001
ZAVENTEM, BEGLIUM: SCA Packaging has hired Richard Tischler as
communications director. Tischler, based in the corrugated packaging
producer's Belgium office, will manage SCA's corporate communications.
He reports into Gunnar Haglund.
13 Apr 2001
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