02 Mar 2001
Alex Finer left Hot Air last summer to become editor of Business
Life, and not High Life, as stated in our analysis of in-flight
magazines (PRWeek, 16 February). Mark Jones is editor of High Life.
02 Mar 2001
virginstudent.com has appointed Beatwax Communications to handle PR
and third-party promotional projects. The Beatwax team is run by account
manager Laura Lumley and creative director Michael Brown. They report to
client brand director James Layfield.
02 Mar 2001
Citigate Public Affairs has hired Carole Tongue, the former deputy
leader of the European Parliament's Labour group, as a consultant. She
will report to agency MD Warwick Smith, who has also appointed Soren
Larsen to CPA's Brussels office.
02 Mar 2001
Angela Webb has been promoted to marketing director at European
monitoring company Romeike Media Intelligence. She was previously sales
marketing manager but has added internal and external communications to
her brief.
02 Mar 2001
the launch of its first
dedicated in-house UK press office.
The group's recently-recruited ...
02 Mar 2001
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has recruited
Manchester-based City Press PR on a B2B ...
02 Mar 2001
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Manchester-based agency City Press PR has laid down a challenge to
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02 Mar 2001
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WPP - parent group of Hill & Knowlton and Ogilvy - has named Philip
Lader, the outgoing US ambassador to the UK, as chairman. Lader succeeds
Hamish Maxwell, who is retiring after five years in the role
02 Mar 2001
Talk Loud has won the brief to promote West End show Notre Dame de
Paris, reporting to its marketing head Jonathon Shalit. The campaign
plans to promote the introduction of Dannii Minogue to the cast.
02 Mar 2001
Burson-Marsteller has appointed KPMG consulting partner Emyr
Williams as a director in its London office. Williams returns to B-M
after 12 years away. He was deputy MD at the agency in the late 1980s
and has since worked for KPMG on B-M clients such as Unilever and
AstraZeneca.