09 May 2007
One of the world’s biggest private equity companies has enlisted its first UK public affairs agency....pany Permira uses Bell Pottinger Public Affairs and is forming its first in-house comms team ...
02 May 2007
A leading public affairs professional has warned that Conservative leader David Cameron's PR...the claim in an exclusive Public Affairs Essay published with this week s edition of PRWeek . He says ...
of this shift. In a third essay, Peter Bingle, chairman of Bell Pottinger Public Affairs, says lobbyists have ...
transition, the public affairs industry will start to understand the Brown government, he predicts. But ...
02 May 2007
Jo Taylor has taken over as head of comms and public affairs at Novartis UK's vaccines division....The business was acquired from US manufacturer Chiron a year ago. The head of comms and public affairs post has been empty since the acquisition. Taylor had previously been working as director of patient affairs for Novartis Pharma - a global role which saw her set up the Health Equality Europe think ...
16 May 2007
| by David Singleton
Edelman vice-chairman of UK public affairs Simon Nayyar has quit just weeks after a major reshuffle...at Citigate Public Affairs, rising to the position of MD, before joining Edelman in early 2006. At Edelman, Nayyar has reported to the agency s London deputy CEO and MD of public affairs Susan Eastoe. His ...
take over as MD of the London public affairs team. Nayyar was offered a broader European remit as part ...
02 May 2007
to be its public affairs consultant...., rising to the position of director. It is the second time that Bircham Dyson Bell, which opened a public affairs arm in 2004, has raided the agency. It previously persuaded director Stuart Thomson to join as senior public affairs consultant ( PRWeek , 27 October 2005). In the new role, Davies will report ...
23 May 2007
own public affairs consultancy....of government relations and external affairs at AstraZeneca. ...
09 May 2007
| by David Singleton
Citigate Public Affairs was this week plunged into crisis when MD Rex Osborn became the latest high...than 16 years to become vice-chairman of UK public affairs at Edelman ( PRWeek , 12 January 2006). Months later, Smith quit to be man aging partner of newly-formed College Public Policy ( PRWeek , 20 ...
30 May 2007
at planning public affairs specialist PPS.
30 May 2007
| by Robert Gray
The recently published Planning White Paper has sparked a public affairs battle, with lobbyists...infrastructure planning. It has also lit the touch-paper on a mighty public affairs battle, with a myriad ...
, to help mitigate against opposition once the scheme reaches the IPC, says Bell Pottinger Public Affairs ...
are intended to shape public policy on major infrastructure for decades to come. Sebastian Hanley, vice ...
23 May 2007
of public affairs and strategic communications firm APCO Worldwide. Longer term, as the polls indicate a ...
Barrow, director general of the Public Relations Consultants Association. There is also an understanding ...
, opening up PR opportunities. Reforms within the NHS have also created significant business in the public ...