29 May 1998
| by ELEANOR TRICKETT
BT has created a senior role within its business division above
Dominic Owens, the head of marketing communications. Kate Notman has
been recruited as general manager and head of offers and communications.
Notman will report directly to Afshin Mohebbi, the director of the
national business communications...
TBWA GGT Simons Palmer launches a television campaign for Thomas
Cook Foreign Exchange next week which promotes the company s status as
the UK s biggest provider of foreign currency to holidaymakers.
Leo Burnett has hired the creative team behind Littlewoods
award-winning football idents, Rob Nielsen and Jack Stephens.
At the beginning of 1996 NatWest swam against the tide by splitting
the bulk of its business between two agencies. Now it has indicated its
readiness to go with the flow.
29 May 1998
| by DOMINIC MILLS
For an advertiser with a pounds 50 million ad budget, NatWest
remains disturbingly synonymous with low brand awareness levels that are
unlikely to improve while it persists with such a large and cumbersome
agency roster.
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 HARRIOT LANE FOX
Schroder Investment Management (SIM) has appointed GCI Focus
Communications to handle PR for its institutional fund management
business.
29 May 1998
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
MILAN: Lottery and gambling operator Sisal Sport Italia has
appointed Fleishman-Hillard to provide PR support.
29 May 1998
| by MAGGIE BROWN
The Corporation of London has switched its Belgian public affairs
account from GPC Market Access to Shandwick after a competitive pitch
(PR Week 16 January). The Corporation, which represents the City s
interests in Europe, has changed the focus of its Brussels lobbying from
local government issues...
29 May 1998
| by RACHEL BAIRD
The appointment of Barkers PR to work on Barclays personal savings
business is only the latest reminder of the opportunities for PR firms
working in the financial services sector.