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The Guide Association has named two well-known PR figures as ambassadors: Bell Pottinger Consulting senior consultant Jane Atkinson, and Talk Loud PR managing director Addie Churchill. Ambassadors help publicise work undertaken by guides.
People-News.com, the celebrity and entertainment website, has hired Ogilvy PR Worldwide to handle corporate and business-to-business PR. Director of e-commerce, Barbara McCall, will head the account reporting to PeopleNews.com PR and marketing manager, Charlotte Weston.
PRWeek will return on 5 January 2001. A very merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to all our readers!
The Scottish arm of the IPR has made submissions to the Holyrood parliament s standards committee on the regulation of lobbyists. The IPR favours a voluntary code of conduct based on self-regulation, but made clear it would co-operate fully with statutory regulation if that is what Parliament decides.
The Government s Communications White Paper spelled out the formation of industry regulator, Ofcom, and a consumer panel to advise it. The Paper calls for the industry to propose a code of practice, and pledges to publicise the code so consumers know their rights and what to do if they are dissatisfied.
Top UK financial PR firm Brunswick has hired ex-Finsbury senior consultant Tim Grey. Grey joins next March as a senior associate partner. He left Finsbury last week after four years with the firm. His remit and team are yet to be decided.
NewsCast, the online picture library for businesses, has appointed QBO founder Quentin Bell to its board. Tim Melville-Ross, former Institute of Directors director-general, has been appointed NewsCast chairman.
Scottish Power has hired CGI to work on its corporate reporting. The account will include the usual annual report, along with environmental and community reports, web development and other corporate literature.
American style magazine IN STYLE, set to launch here in 2001, has hired an in-house communications team. Ellie Harris, previously PR director at agency Yellow Door, will take the role of communications director; Anna Heywood, former Aurelia PR account executive, becomes communications manager. They...
Hill & Knowlton has won the public affairs contract for trade body the Quarry Products Association. Work starts in February, following a five-way competitive pitch.
