17 Dec 2001
| by JAMES BURNETT
NEW YORK: Next year, companies in crisis may be able to reassure
the public by paying for advice from New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani,
who late last week revealed his intent to found his own high-end
consulting firm.
The new venture, which has no name, but is expected to feature
Giuliani's...
14 Dec 2001
| by JOE LEPPER
Save the Children is on the hunt for its first board-level
communications chief.
The new post of director of policy and communications has been created
as part of a senior management revamp overseen by director-general Mike
Aaronson.
This includes the merger of the communications...
14 Dec 2001
Telecoms giant WorldCom has handed Lewis PR its UK comms brief with
fees in the region of ...
14 Dec 2001
| by JOE LEPPER
across
the eight-strong UK and 20-strong European comms teams.
King, who joined TXU three years ...
14 Dec 2001
| by JOE LEPPER
The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has appointed Robert Hannigan as
director of comms.
He ...
14 Dec 2001
| by CHRIS SCOTT
caused by the departure of comms heads for
both Lafarge and Blue Circle - the British cement firm ...
14 Dec 2001
| by MATT WEINER
Third-generation mobile operator Hutchison 3G has appointed Firefly
Communications after a five-way pitch for its tech PR work.
Firefly secured the 250,000 rolling contract after seeing off
challenges from Edelman PR Worldwide, Bell Pottinger PR, Countrywide
Porter Novelli and Miller Shandwick....
14 Dec 2001
| by CHRIS SCOTT
Virgin Radio head of communications Charlotte Blenkinsop is to
leave at the end of the year as part of a PR overhaul.
The Scottish Media Group-owned network is instead to appoint a PR
manager to start next year and hand more responsibility to the SMG
corporate affairs department....
14 Dec 2001
| by Edited by JOE LEPPER
PR
chief to better handle the change.
It is now on the hunt for a director of comms and ...
14 Dec 2001
| by GIDON FREEMAN
LLM Communications has lost board director Olly Grender to rival
public affairs shop APCO.
Grender is expected to stand down from LLM in the new year following a
decision last week to join long-term friend and APCO London MD Nick de
Luca in a senior management role.
She refused to...