09 Feb 2001
PARIS: Global communications group Publicis has appointed Pierre Benaich as its first director...PARIS: Global communications group Publicis has appointed Pierre Benaich as its first director of investor relations. Reporting to group CEO Maurice Levy, Benaich will be in charge of relations with analysts, investors and shareholders. The firm's relationship with IR agency Kekst will not be affected.
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20 Jul 2001
NEW DELHI: Corporate comms firm Publicis India has spun off its
financial PR arm into a separate firm, Publicis Financial. The team is
already working with SBI Mutual Fund, Centurion Bank and Alliance
Capital. Publicis India CEO Praveen Kenneth said the move will allow the
firm to capitalise...
09 Mar 2001
HONG KONG: US investment bank Goldman Sachs has split its regional
corporate PR account between four agencies, breaking its relationship
with Hill & Knowlton. H&K has been retained in three markets -
Singapore, Australia and India. Edelman and Weber Shandwick have scooped
the account in Beijing...
09 Feb 2001
HONG KONG: Standard Chartered Bank has beefed up its PR team
following its acquisition of Chase Manhattan's Hong Kong retail arm last
September. Former Gavin Anderson associate director Elizabeth Armstrong
joins as head of internal comms for Hong Kong; Larry Yu joins as head of
technology in...
01 Aug 2007
New York: Brunswick has hired Lazard global director of comms Richard Silverman as a partner...Silverman was previously global director of corporate media relations at aerospace firm Honeywell. Before that he held positions at Merrill Lynch and was a Dow Jones journalist. The agency has also expanded its Dubai office with the appointment of another partner, Alex Blake-Milton. He has been ...
24 Jul 2008
| by David Quainton
example of an international firm using London expertise for a global brief. Cubitt will advise ...
29 Sep 2000
THE TOP 25 GLOBAL PR AGENCIES
RANK AGENCY NAME AUDIT TOTAL INCOME (DOLLARS) %
99 98 99 98 CHANGE
1 1 Burson-Marsteller Y 274,631,000 258,417,000 6
2 2 Hill and Knowlton Y 243 ...
17 Aug 2006
| by David Quainton
Reuters is overhauling its global PR, putting several jobs under threat....It is putting increased focus on its financial reporting arm and on gaining revenues overseas, particularly from China and India.
London-based global head of external comms Ed Williams will, by October, halve to four the global PROs reporting to him.
Global heads of corporate PR for the financial ...
13 Jun 2007
Reuters has poached Powerscourt director Victoria Brough to be its global head of financial PR.
21 Mar 2002
| by Joe Lepper,
LONDON - Cordiant Communications is to restructure its global network of financial and corporate PR...staff to do that,' said Watson.
'The creation of a global IR practice is a certainty. This is so ...