13 May 2005
Malaysia Airlines has hired Ogilvy PR Worldwide following a four-way pitch (PRWeek, 8 April).
01 Apr 2005
'. Adam Hill asks if this points to a wider PR failure....and knows the market believes the fundamental problem is the way the company approaches PR.
'My feeling ...
Nike's PR initiative to help tackle racism in football, StandupSpeakup, was backed by luminaries ...
to assess its agenda when no one there wants to discuss StandupSpeakup with PRWeek.
Nike UK and Ireland ...
08 Apr 2005
| by Ian Hall
Stelios Haji-Ioannou's easyGroup was this week thrashing out the PR agency backing behind his...PR firms including Weber Shandwick are to promote easyCruise's no-frills Mediterranean sailings ...
European markets.
Athens-based The PR Team, New York's M Booth Associates and freelances in the south of France are also promoting easyCruise, while Rothnie is yet to hire an agency for PR in Italy.
UK PR ...
13 May 2005
| by Donna Werbner
The Croatian National Tourist Board is to begin a PR offensive underlining the country's cultural...destination in the late 1990s, Charisma PR.
The agency had resigned the account after six years in 2000 ...
from 201,000 in 2004.
Incumbent Brighter PR resigned the account in December due to a conflict of interest with Adriatic Holidays (PRWeek, 21 January). The Croatian National Tourist Board then put ...
18 Feb 2005
to its chest by ceasing to work with PR firm Beattie Communications....Beattie's contract with Leeds expires at the end of the month, after which all of its PR will be handled in-house by press officer Don Warters.
The decision follows Chelsea chairman Ken Bates ...
, which saved the club as it stood on the brink of administration with debts of more than £103m (PRWeek, 2 ...
15 Jul 2005
at travel PR specialist The Saltmarsh Partnership, describes Conde Nast Traveller as 'the Holy Grail' for travel PR because of its stylish, sophisticated and often big-spending readership. But he also counsels ...
29 Apr 2005
| by Tom Williams
Whitbread is to undertake a PR review across all its restaurant brands as it completes a five....
Whitbread head of external communications Abigail Langan said the company had already decided to take PR for coffee chain Costa in-house. The review could also mean a radical shake-up of PR for restaurant chains Brewers Fayre, Beefeater and TGI Friday's.
CompanyCare, which handles PR for Costa, is the first ...
01 Jul 2005
| by Anthony Hilton, City commentator on London's Evening Standard, anthony.hilton@haynet.com
This Government has a reputation for spin and the presentation of policy too often seems to take precedence over its delivery. So it should not come as a shock to read documents filed in court as part of the Railtrack shareholders' action against the Government, which began on Monday.
17 Jun 2005
CONSUMER: Prova PR is promoting this year's Wales Rally GB, the British round of this year's FIA
13 May 2005
| by Anthony Hilton, City commentator on London's Evening Standard; anthony.hilton@haynet.com
PR convinced investors that its future was rosy, and it sold its shares at twice the price at which ...
failure in PR terms?
This is a difficult one. Listings are a major source of revenue, even when ...
majority cost investors money. The PR industry has to recognise that excellent pre-flotation work is likely ...