22 Feb 2002
| by HOLLY WILLIAMS
Oil giant ChevronTexaco has announced its global communications
structure following an in-house PR...The review, triggered by the merger of Chevron and Texaco last year, has
led to staff changes and redundancies. While CT declined to confirm figures, the group said there were
'significant overlaps' after the merger and 'a number' of staff
reductions. CT has handed its top global PR post to former Texaco comms ...
13 Apr 2001
HONG KONG: Golin/Harris Forrest has won a brief with McDonald's
restaurants to conduct media training workshops for its China regional
managers. G/H Forrest has also been awarded a marketing and brand
strategy brief with consumer products company Kimberley-Clark in Hong
Kong.
06 Apr 2001
BUENOS AIRES: Supermarket chain Wal-Mart has hired Gaston Weinstein
as PR manager for Argentina. Formerly a press officer at the Argentinean
Chamber of Trade, Weinstein replaces Wal-Mart Argentina PR boss
Frederico Ovejero, who left to become regional PA manager at US biotech
firm Monsanto.
13 Oct 2000
Mobile phone company Ericsson is doubling its global investor relations resource and opening a...Mobile phone company Ericsson is doubling its global investor relations resource and opening a dedicated office in London.
The moves are in response to the company s global expansion and a reflection ...
last week Ericsson had just four IR people worldwide. The global head of IR, New York-based Gary ...
17 Jun 2005
| by Tom Williams
head of internal comms Kerry Underhill to head its global communications as it braces itself for a...The appointment ends the Dutch retail giant's 12-month hunt for a global head of comms ...
Deutsche Bank's London office in March 2004, will take over the global role from interim senior vice ...
holds the title of management support V-P, has been covering the global comms role since Christians ...
18 Apr 1997
| by JOHN-PIERRE JOYCE
Marina Galanti, the former Benetton media relations chief, arrives
in Littlehampton this week as head of communications at The Body Shop
International.
The new position, reporting to The Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, has
been created in a bid to co-ordinate the company s global ...
01 May 1998
| by IAN DARBY
Travel and financial services company Thomas Cook has named Alexis
Coles as director of worldwide PR and communications following the
reorganisation of senior management within the company. Coles was
previously head of corporate communications, a role which sat across
Thomas Cook s two core businesses...
05 Nov 1999
| by RICHARD EDWARDS
Burson-Marsteller has drafted in the Body Shop s global
communications head, Gavin Grant...Burson-Marsteller has drafted in the Body Shop s global
communications head, Gavin Grant, as chairman of its UK public affairs
practice.
Grant will take responsibility for the nine-strong UK public affairs
team. This forms part of the agency s pan-European public affairs
division, which ...
20 Oct 2000
Boots has handed its pounds 80 million global marketing work to WPP. All Boots branded consumer...Boots has handed its pounds 80 million global marketing work to WPP. All Boots branded consumer products will now be handled by WPP agencies. Corporate brand management head Neville Wells said any review of external suppliers will now include a WPP company, but stressed that its relationships with Citigate Dewe ...
20 Feb 1998
| by IAN DARBY
Shop, which operates
in 47 markets, was now keen to adopt a global approach to
communications ...