26 Nov 1999
| by ED SHELTON
GCI Jane Howard has won a four-way pitch to run a PR campaign for
WH Smith s retail operation.
26 Nov 1999
| by ANDREW HOLT
Ludgate Communications is rumoured to be attempting to bolster its
financial PR operation with a potential merger with the Maitland
Consultancy. Robin Hepburn, chief executive of Ludgate confirmed to PR
Week on 12 November that he was already in talks with one agency, which
is now believed to be Maitland.
26 Nov 1999
| by GIDON FREEMAN
Porter Novelli International (PNI) is merging its technology practice with specialist hi-tech agency and fellow Omnicom brand Copithorne and Bellows creating a single global brand.
26 Nov 1999
| by ANDREW HOLT
Technology PR company Noiseworks has had worrying calls to its
Maidenhead office.
19 Nov 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Three long-established independent consultants, each with over 15
years experience, have joined forces to create Europe Analytica with
combined fees in excess of pounds 500,000. The firm draws on the PA and
lobbying experience of dealing with clients such as Tesco and News
International and consists...
19 Nov 1999
The consultancies which entered the 1999 PR Week Agency Report have
responded to the tougher standards we set them with aplomb.
12 Nov 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
David Davis, former international president of broadcast news
distribution service Medialink, is setting up NetVentures International
to supply streaming audio and video via the internet to corporate and
marketing communications companies on issues such as recruitment,
exhibitions and conferences.
12 Nov 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
Management and technology consultancy the Capital Markets Company
(CapCo) is believed to be set to hire Cubitt Consulting to promote
itself to the retail and investment banking sectors. CapCo, which
currently retains Brunswick, launched in 1998 with IBM and Morgan
Stanley as backers. Cubitt would target...
12 Nov 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
ZURICH: Hill and Knowlton has strengthened its presence in Europe
by acquiring a ten per cent stake in Swiss PR agency Dr Peter P
Knobel.
12 Nov 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Four Turkish agencies have passed the consultancy management
standard set by the International Committee of PR Consultancies
Associations (ICO).