25 May 2012
| by John Owens
Anchor, a major provider of retirement housing, care homes and support for older people throughout England, is seeking to continue the momentum behind recent efforts. Anchor s head of communications and public affairs Mario Ambrosi said: 'We are in the advanced stages of a tender for PR services to help ...
24 May 2012
| by John Owens
Efforts to overhaul the way that PR is handled within the NHS have been thwarted after failing...Plans for a centralised 'hub and spoke' model, revealed by PRWeek (17 June, 2011) were knocked back at the second hurdle by the NHS Commissioning Board Authority.
The planned NHS Communications and Engagement Service model was designed to ensure comms kept up with a restructure of healthcare in the UK ...
of PR agencies - many of which previously enjoyed lucrative contracts with the COI - were told campaign ...
24 May 2012
| by Adam Hill
chairman, Maitland Political.
From PRWeek 's public affairs supplement, May 2012 ...
The bank, which has rebranded the high street branches of Abbey National, Alliance Leicester and Bradford Bingley, is set to appoint lobbying help after holding talks with a number of high profile agencies.
PRWeek understands that a pitch process was initially launched in late 2010, but this was put ...
Alastair Campbell is taking his first permanent job in PR since leaving Downing Street in 2003...He will work for CEO Tim Allan, his former deputy in Tony Blair s office, and will concentrate on strategic corporate comms, crisis management work and mentoring the Portland team.
Campbell told PRWeek ...
for Tony Blair is due to be published shortly.
Campbell s PR career
Last year, Campbell ...
22 May 2012
| by John Owens
', PR professionals have been told at a meeting outlining comms in a post-COI world....' reactions to the conference, read this week's PRWeek. ...
18 May 2012
| by John Owens
appointment, PRWeek reported that Murray would oversee a team of 25 working across clients including Visa ...
PRWeek reported that Procter Gamble had given Fleishman-Hillard s UK work with Pampers to Hill+Knowlton Strategies . Fleishman-Hillard also recently won the PR and social media account with Symington s foods ...
17 May 2012
Positive sentiment towards the coalition Government has dropped to its lowest level for three years, according to PRWeek/OnePoll's research.
When survey respondents were asked their opinion ...
cease. Basic competence is a minimum requirement for the electorate, and no clever PR strategy will save ...
17 May 2012
spoken but quick to smile, the PR chief for Imperial War Museums' London sites and head of corporate ...
are reaching that point with World War Two,' she says. 'That has an impact on our PR campaigns. We used to draw ...
opportunities in that.'
Part of the PR challenge comes in mitigating the disruption: the museum ...