07 Nov 2008
The Audit Commission is considering hiring its first public affairs support. The body, which.... Bell Pottinger Public Affairs has produced what it describes as 'an
indispensable analysis ...
Portland PR is setting up a 'Responsibility Unit'. Agency boss Tim Allan
said the unit would work ...
Guido Fawkes
and Guardian journalist David Hencke as PRWeek went to press. The debate
organised ...
08 Feb 2008
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has appointed Lewis PR's Clive Booth.... Booth joins the ACCA as director of public affairs and media relations.
The association claims ...
of corporate affairs at Lewis. Before that, he spent
just six months at London lobbying shop Precise Public Affairs. Prior to joining Precise, Booth spent seven years at Lewis, including a
stint as head of PR ...
14 Nov 2008
plans to take on outside public affairs contracts. ...
The Big Lottery Fund (BLF) has selected Cake to drive a PR campaign. The
agency will promote the Big Thinking public consultation project aimed
at listening to the public's views on how lottery money ...
04 Jul 2008
to transform its comms operation. Jane Hill will join ITV on 14 July as head of public affairs. The role...The Football Association's long-serving head of public affairs Phil
Smith is leaving to join Sport ...
affairs, based in Brussels. He joins from General Electric, where he
was senior counsel and director of European affairs. David Hill, Bell Pottinger director and former Number 10 comms chief,
has said that a ...
25 Jul 2008
Bell Pottinger Public Affairs has landed a brief with Jacobs, a large global engineering...Business Link London is on the hunt for an agency to provide public
affairs and corporate media ...
and communicate ethics and standards in the profession. Patrick Horgan, former MD of APCO Worldwide in China ...
, parliamentary
candidates, staff and activists on how the party should communicate its
message. The part ...
08 Jul 2005
The Postal Services Commission (Postcomm) has awarded a three-year public affairs and PR contract...Grayling will support the postal regulator's in-house PR team in communicating the reforms to businesses, consumers and politicians. According to the tender document, it will be expected to provide ...
to Postcomm communications director Denise Bagge and secured the contract after a competitive pitch ...
11 Apr 2008
to hold on to its account with
Lloyds pharmacy (PRWeek, 14 March). It is understood that APCO, headed in the UK by MD Darren Murphy,
pitched against Lexington Communications and Insight Public Affairs. ...
journalist with one of
Europe's most respected publications'. Smith said: 'Businesses and industry ...
25 Jul 2008
- COI report reveals £29.3m PR and sponsorship spend, Camden Council seeks new staff....for the South West. - Camden Council is seeking five new PR and communications officers: an
assistant press and public relations officer, a communications and
marketing officer, a press and PR officer and two senior ...
£29.3m on PR and sponsorship
during 2007-08. Some £11.2m of this was purely for PR. The overall
sum ...
22 Jul 2005
Channel 4 has promoted head of public affairs Nick Toon to head of
corporate relations, taking over...Toon continues to oversee PA but will be supported by Jonathan Simon,
who has moved from strategy and economics manager to senior manager,
corporate relations. Simon said his new role involved communicating C4's
remit as a public service broadcaster, and the extension of that remit
through new media ...
01 Apr 2005
BAA Scotland is looking for a new head of public affairs as incumbent Malcolm Robertson prepares...Robertson will take over Smith's role on 1 June. The new head of public affairs will have responsibility for parliamentary, media and community relations as BAA Scotland plans to add a second runway at Edinburgh airport.
Smith said: 'We can't grow our business if the community does not allow us to.
We ...