29 May 1998
| by HARRIOT LANE FOX
The Lowe Group re-entered the UK PR industry this week, after a
ten-year absence, by acquiring a majority stake in healthcare specialist
Fusion.
29 May 1998
| by JULIETTE GARSIDE
City watchdog the Financial Services Authority (FSA) is understood
to be consulting pension providers on funding a PR campaign aimed at
encouraging people who have been mis-sold pensions to seek
compensation.
29 May 1998
| by IAN DARBY
German media giant Axel Springer has appointed Dewe Rogerson to
handle its UK communications as it considers making approaches for
Mirror Group and other UK newspaper groups.
29 May 1998
| by SOPHIE BARKER
Luxury goods firm Alfred Dunhill has appointed Yellow Door to
update its image and attract younger consumers.
29 May 1998
| by SOPHIE BARKER
The large majority of charities questioned in PR Week s latest
straw poll spend less than five per cent of their PR budget on research
and evaluation (R&E).
29 May 1998
| by HARRIOT LANE FOX
Middlesbrough Borough Council is seeking its first head of
communications, a post reflecting the council s growing PR
requirements.
29 May 1998
| by HARRIOT LANE FOX
The Local Government Association has promoted Phil Swann, its head
of environment and development, to the post of director of
communications and public affairs. Swann replaces Carol Grant, who left
at the end of March. Swann previously spent four years as
under-secretary for planning and transport at...
29 May 1998
| by HARRIOT LANE FOX
Some 63 per cent of PR agencies claim to be year 2000 compliant but
many are underestimating the full impact of the millennium bug according
to a survey from MORI, conducted for Firefly Communications. Around half
of the 41 agencies questioned did not realise that their computer
operating system could...
29 May 1998
| by HARRIOT LANE FOX
Public affairs agency AS Biss has won a competitive pitch to
campaign against the closure of the Domestic Violence Intervention
Project, which provides services for both victims and perpetrators of
domestic violence.
29 May 1998
| by HARRIOT LANE FOX
Political Context has appointed Paul Hannon, formerly leader of
Newbury Council and a director of consultancy Sallingbury Casey, as its
fifth director. He is charged with developing the agency s planning and
local government practice. After leaving Sallingbury Casey in 1991, when
it merged with the...