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WPP, parent of Hill and Knowlton and Ogilvy PR, plans to introduce a share scheme for around ten of its senior executives after September, when a similar scheme for CEO Martin Sorrell comes to an end. In 1994 Sorrell paid pounds 2 million for shares in WPP, and was allocated further stock according...
Public affairs agencies belonging to the Association of Professional Political Consultants witnessed a continued slackening in business during the first half of this year. Client numbers grew by just three per cent, compared with a nine per cent rise during the same period last year.
Barclays Bank has hired Lexis PR as the fourth agency on the roster for its high street arm. It joins GCI, Hill and Knowlton and Harrison Cowley (PR Week, 25 June). The other agencies that pitched were Shandwick Welbeck, Spreckley Pittham, Abel Hadden and Company, Manning Selvage and Lee and Beattie...
The Health Education Authority has turned to its roster agency Manning, Selvage and Lee to encourage parents to talk to their children about drugs. The consumer work was won after a three-way pitch.
A survey by PR Week US has shown that PR practitioners there are ahead of their UK counterparts in the use of planning techniques including consumer surveys and focus groups, but fall down when it comes to evaluation. Of the 300-plus surveyed for PR Week s Proof campaign, 24 per cent still made use...
Conran Design Group, which designs for retailers such as fashion brand Diesel and supermarket giant J Sainsbury, is reviewing its PR. The business-to-business account is currently held by Grappa.
Air Products and Air Liquide, which are in the process of taking over rival industrial gases firm BOC, have jointly appointed GJW to advise on competition and regulatory issues while the European Commission investigates the deal.
Powergen has appointed former Hertz Europe public affairs director Gareth Wynn as its new media relations head. Wynn takes over from Fraser Hardie, who left last April to go travelling.
Connect public affairs managing director Gill Morris has appointed board director Malcolm George as the agency s first deputy MD. George was a founding director of Connect, which bought itself out from GPC over 18 months ago.
PR Week will not be publishing next week, but will return on Friday 6 August.
