GLOBAL ROUND-UP: News in brief
30 Mar 2001
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vice-president of global communications, Bari Seiden as second V-P of global comms and Jennifer Mann as ...
Martin Pearce, director of global communications and brand management. ...
HONG KONG: Fortune has hired Ogilvy PR Worldwide to organise PR surrounding its Global Forum for ...
NEW YORK: GCI Group is preparing to announce a series of US-wide layoffs that will reduce the workforce in the States by a reported five per cent. It is understood around 50 jobs have been scrapped from GCI offices in LA, San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago and New York.
BRUSSELS: Hill & Knowlton director and Belgium office head Paul Baeyaert has been named deputy head of the agency's European marcoms practice. He reports to John Rivett, who leads the marketing communications sector from London.
PARIS: PR Newswire has acquired French hi-tech corporate communications news agency Cyperus for pounds 7.2m. Cyperus, established in 1996, provides online IR and communications services including webcasts, presentations and news release delivery. Current clients include France Telecom, IBM and...
LOS ANGELES: Pixar, the computer-animation studio behind films Toy Story and A Bug's Life, has handed its PR business to Golin/Harris' San Francisco and Los Angeles operations. GH will handle general media relations as well as support to a PR campaign surrounding the launch of its fourth animated...
PARIS: Former PR expert Bertrand Delanoe has been appointed mayor of Paris. He takes over from Jean Tiberi. Previously, Delanoe acted as official spokesman for the French Socialist Party and headed his own PR consultancy.
STOCKHOLM: Cohn & Wolfe has signed up Swedish agency Kind & Partners to its affiliate network. The latter, led by MD Jan Kind, previously worked with C&W to assist Orange with its public relations strategy for the Third Generation licence bid in Sweden.
global market, they are being forced to play by Western rules. If they want to attract foreign ...