01 May 2009
Sportswear chain JJB was saved from administration on Monday after
creditors nearly unanimously voted in favour of its Company Voluntary
Agreement (CVA). The agreement enables the firm to restructure and write
off much of its debt and change its quarterly rental payments on stores
to a monthly time frame ...
20 Mar 2009
As revealed on prweek.com (16 March) Wood will take voluntary redundancy later in the year after 11 years at the firm. She joined Sainsbury's in 1998 initially as head of press and took overall control of its comms function in 2004. Wood told PRWeek she did not yet have her next role lined up ...
12 Dec 2008
- Burson-Marsteller has become the first major public affairs agency to
sign up to the European Commission's controversial register for
Brussels-based lobbyists. Ten weeks ago just two UK-based agencies had
signed the 'voluntary register of interest representatives' (PRWeek, 3
October). - General ...
21 Nov 2008
Target: Waterstone's
Protesters: Christian Voice
Location: Cardiff, Wales
Date: 12 November
- The lowdown Waterstone's was forced to cancel a book signing in its Cardiff store
after a Christian pressure group protested. Darkness is Where the Stars
Are author Patrick Jones - brother of Manic...
12 Sep 2008
Protesters: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Location: Lush's Regent Street store
Target: Retailers and restaurants
Date: 3 September
- What Happened? Performance artist Alice Newstead suspended herself from de-barbed hooks
outside Lush cosmetics' Regent Street shop. The stunt kicked off...