28 Mar 1997
| by CHRIS BUTLER, managing director of Gran
For some time, practitioners of public affairs (the
euphemistic term for lobbying) have divided...are happy to be included within the overall
umbrella of PR.
Why is it that some public affairs ...
that capability is contracted out to a third party
After all, how many PR companies claiming public affairs ...
is to maintain
that public relations and public affairs are one and the same
thing. The nightmare scenario ...
29 Sep 2000
| by JENNIFER WHITEHEAD
Nick Archer is leaving his role as director of public affairs at Edelman Public Relations to start...Nick Archer is leaving his role as director of public affairs at Edelman Public Relations to start a new public affairs division with Ogilvy PR Worldwide in London.
Ogilvy already has thriving public affairs divisions in its Brussels, Washington DC and other offices worldwide, and hopes to build ...
16 Jun 2000
| by ADAM HILL
DALLAS: Two leading fast food restaurant chains are beefing up
their PR operations...., Sullivan will oversee all
aspects of external PR, including product publicity, brand positioning,
crisis communications and community affairs. Pizza Hut s PR budget is
thought to be in the multi ...
to head its brand communications.
The chain, which boasts a PR budget in the region of pounds 400 ...
10 Apr 1998
| by IAN DARBY
, media buying and ad agency sectors, is
seeking its first UK public affairs agency...., media buying and ad agency sectors, is
seeking its first UK public affairs agency.
While ...
.
Sara Price, head of public affairs at the Advertising Association, said:
The Government is putting ...
be useful to have
access to a public affairs agency .
Last month, the Institute of Practitioners ...
02 Jun 2000
| by GIDON FREEMAN
Top five UK energy firm PowerGen has brought in Fishburn Hedges as
its retained public affairs...Top five UK energy firm PowerGen has brought in Fishburn Hedges as
its retained public affairs ...
, reporting to corporate
affairs director Esther Kaposi and public affairs manager Chris Norton,
who ran ...
communications.
For product and pricing PR, effectively the consumer strand, PowerGen
retains Lexis PR.
...
18 Apr 1997
| by KAREN DEMPSEY
the contract for courier company DHL to
Shandwick Public Affairs....the contract for courier company DHL to
Shandwick Public Affairs.
Shandwick won the business this week after pitching against AS Biss, GJW
and Westminster Communications. (PR Week, 4 April).
AS Biss ...
for questions scandal last
October.
DHL PR and sponsorship manager Liz Hauxwell said: We chose ...
25 Jun 1999
| by NICK PURDOM
Client: The Better Payment Practice Group
PR Team: Polhill Communications
Campaign ...
the message about the importance of
prompt payment among all sectors of the business community ...
.
A media relations campaign was launched, targeting around 1,100
media.
In August ...
18 Jun 2004
GCI London and London Communications Agency to its PR account with an additional public affairs remit....that inc-ludes London Communications Agency founder Robert Gordon Clark.
...
28 Mar 2003
| by Joe Lepper and Holly Williams
Delivery firm DHL Worldwide has hired GPC to handle its public affairs....' its public affairs account, which had been held by WS or its predecessors for ten years.
She ...
this week hired City PR agency Smithfield Financial to handle communications surrounding its 170m takeover ...
-strong shortlist.
Work to be carried out by GPC will include consolidating relations with industry bodies ...
21 Jan 2000
| by JULIETTE GARSIDE
WASHINGTON: Shandwick International has named the chiefs of its
Global Public Affairs Group...WASHINGTON: Shandwick International has named the chiefs of its
Global Public Affairs Group ...
Affairs in London, will handle Europe.
The group aims to specialise in campaigns to shape public ...
by Shandwick
last November, will join the group s existing international PR
functions ...