20 Apr 2001
NEW YORK: Rupert Murdoch's global media empire News Corp has signed
up Michael Regan as SV-P of ...
20 Apr 2001
HONG KONG: Cisco Systems, the networking and internet solutions
company, has held a review of its outsourced PR in Hong Kong. Four
agencies - Burson-Marsteller, Weber Shandwick Worldwide, IPR Asia and
incumbent Newell PR - pitched for the corporate and technology work.
Karen Chu, PR manager...
20 Apr 2001
MIAMI: Weber Shandwick Worldwide has laid off 11 staff from its
Miami office due to a dwindling number of financially viable dot.com
clients. The office had built a heavily dot.com-orientated client
roster. 'With the dot.com pull-back in budgets, we had no choice,' said
WSW president and CEO...
20 Apr 2001
BUENOS AIRES: Internet equipment giant EMC2 is searching for a PR
firm to replace three-year incumbent Ketchum PR. After failing to reach
an agreement with the US tech corporation, Ketchum did not repitch. It
is believed Porter Novelli, Mazalan & Asociados, Burson-Marsteller and
Gustavo Martinez...
20 Apr 2001
BEIJING: Hong Kong corporate and financial PR agency Occasions is
to open its first overseas operation in Beijing. The office will be used
to service existing clients in China, but under Chinese legal
restrictions will not be soliciting local business. Occasions MD Wendy
Yeung will head the...
20 Apr 2001
BOMBAY: Kodak India is increasing its PR budget by 15 per cent over
its spend of nearly pounds 330,000 last year. According to Rajesh Singh,
Kodak India SV-P consumer imaging, campaigns will focus on cameras. 'The
key task is to bring people to the photographic fold. A large number of
Indians...
20 Apr 2001
PARIS: Chronopost International, the express mail service of
France's postal service La Poste, has hired Francois Gauthier as
director of communications. He replaces Beatrice Roux. Gauthier was
previously comms director for French nuclear re-treatment organisation
Cogema. At Chronopost, part...
20 Apr 2001
SINGAPORE: Printing solutions giant Lexmark International has
chosen Golin/Harris Forrest for product and corporate PR and overall
comms strategy advice and implementation in Singapore. The decision
marks the firm's first serious PR push in the region. G/H Forrest's
affiliate agency Prestige...
20 Apr 2001
| by IAN DARBY
the global rebranding of its credit card
portal.
Leonardo, Leo Burnett's digital and direct ...
20 Apr 2001
| by IAN DARBY
role of
global chief operating officer has left him with a pressing problem.
Namely, finding ...