20 Feb 2012
| by John Owens
The Design Museum has retained Bolton & Quinn as it prepares for expansion and a new home....-founded museum move from Shad Thames into Kensingston's Commonwealth Institute. After beating two others in a pitch process, Bolton Quinn, which had been working with the museum on a public affairs brief since September 2010, will now focus on a consumer-facing retained brief. Josephine Chanter, head ...
10 Feb 2012
The University of York is in the process of setting up a body to educate the media about...Education, a body that aims to aid journalists
who are not well-versed in the education sector. Dr ...
.' He decided to focus on using the media as a method of disseminating
information, based on the way that the Science Media Centre is a source
of knowledge for the science press. Sharples said the centre would ...
10 Feb 2012
| by Alec Mattinson
The gargantuan Facebook float and the Glencore-Xstrata merger look a huge fillip to the beleaguered...and details emerged of a planned £50bn merger of London-listed mining giants Xstrata and Glencore. Brunswick ...
transactions and related City project
briefs remained far from ideal. Nonetheless, there have been a number ...
to float a new vehicle on the
London stock market. However, new listing interest continues to emanate ...
want to make the world a better place. He defines his vision as 'a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge'. It is certainly a romantic idea, but as recent events have shown, PR professionals may not hold such a rose-tinted view of the site.
An unintended ...
02 Feb 2012
| by Kate Magee
The changes are being promoted through an ad campaign on the London Underground and a major point-of-sale campaign. 'There is a big marketing push around the redesign, because it is the first in seven years,' editor Deborah Joseph told PRWeek.
This new format provides a range of opportunities for PR ...
20 Jan 2012
If you have read a newspaper in the past week you might think David Cameron made a political gaffe...Minister has made a well-timed political move, and in doing so has flushed Salmond out of his rabbit hole ...
responsible and stable government, and stoke up enough nationalist sentiment to win over a voting public ...
with the economic case for independence is that it is fundamentally selfish - buying into it opens a can of worms ...
Giving an interview to the media can be daunting, so PRWeek took part in a training session to pick...professionals feel reluctant to be thrust into the spotlight of a broadcast interview to be grilled by a baying media. But as PRWeek discovered in a recent training session, print interviews can be far more damaging ...
company Harvey Leach to conduct a half-day training session for deputy editor Cathy Bussey and associate ...
17 Jan 2012
| by Malcolm Gooderham, TLG
Effective Thought Leadership can be the difference between a thriving business and failure....Here is a tale of two retailers and a salutary warning to any business leader tempted to rest on past laurels.
A decade ago, Marks Spencer and Woolworths faced similar predicaments. Both were ...
ceased to exist.
Why did one prosper and one go bust? The reason is M S adopted a Thought Leadership ...
17 Jan 2012
| by Dominic Schofield, Korn/Ferry International
What makes a good leader? This is a question I routinely face as I identify candidates for board ...
experience the following three characteristics have a fundamental impact on good leadership. In addition, these are underpinned by a single reality: everyone is in the reputation business.
- First: Successful leaders have a ...
17 Jan 2012
| by Nick Folland, Kingfisher
Businesses can make a profit from sustainability providing they have a sustainability plan....We believe business can and should make a profit from being sustainable. It is why Kingfisher has taken a strategic decision to put sustainability at the heart of our business strategy.
If a business ...
become truly hard-wired into the business plan and, as a consequence, will always sit on the fringes ...