25 May 2001
| by GIDON FREEMAN
he leaves, his post of corporate media relations and internal comms head
will be divided between a ...
25 May 2001
| by BEN BOLD
The Department of Health is on the hunt for a director of communications
following the announcement that Helen McCallum is to leave.
McCallum, who has been at the DoH for seven years, is joining the
Environment Agency as director of corporate affairs at the beginning of
July.
Although...
25 May 2001
Internet security firm SonicWall has handed a pounds 120,000 per annum
PR account to Stewart-Muir Communications. The work is run by account
director Greg Mills, who reports to SonicWall PR manager Jessica
Bombaci. Affiliates ProService in Germany and Eliotrope in France are to
run a European...
25 May 2001
Financial analysis and software provider Brainpower NV has poached
Curtis Fox from Edelman London's financial practice.
Fox has been appointed to the newly-created director of corporate
communications role with a global investor relations brief.
At Edelman, Fox managed an IR team for...
25 May 2001
Internet news service Ananova is on the hunt for a PR agency following
the appointment of its first PR head.
Alison Gee has moved to the Leeds-based company from an account director
role with The Red Consultancy, which she had held for one year.
'We are building a strong in-house PR...
25 May 2001
The British Film Institute (bfi) is on the hunt for a replacement for
Mark Batey, the head of marketing and press who has left to become CEO
of the British Society of Film. The chosen applicant will fill the
newly-expanded role of head of communications, which carries a brief to
raise the bfi's...
25 May 2001
Children's charity NCH is seeking a media and communications officer to
fill a newly-created post in Wales to reflect devolution and increased
activity by the charity in the region. The appointee, who will report to
the head of media and PR at the charity's London HQ, Olivia Belle, will
work...
25 May 2001
| by PETER SIMPSON
OBERURSEL: The German C&N Touristic Travel Group - which bought out
Thomas Cook last year - has appointed Rolf Dieter Grass as head of
communications.
The appointment comes a month before the Europe-wide rebranding of the
group as Thomas Cook AG.
Grass currently works as the investor...
25 May 2001
| by Edited by CHRIS SCOTT
Comments from Edelman Worldwide CEO Richard Edelman to PRWeek's
Reputation.com conference have provoked a tough response from the
dot.com communications sector.
Speaking at the event earlier this month, Edelman told delegates that
the PR industry had been a partner in the 'gold rush' mentality...
25 May 2001
| by ADAM HILL
David Bull is almost unbelievably self-confident. He is also
charming and prone to self-deprecative humour - the anecdote about being
pinned to a wall and threatened by two angry viewers is a case in
point.
For Bull is not just David Bull, nascent PR and event management agency
owner...