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CHARITY: The Fire Services National Benevolent Fund is to step up its PR in June, when the charity celebrates its diamond jubilee. Events include a concert on 29 June featuring the singer Petula Clark and comedian Ronnie Corbett. A media launch to promote the event takes place next week.
SUNDERLAND: Newcastle-based agency Bradley O'Mahoney has been appointed to handle PR for City of Sunderland College. The agency's brief is to develop a strategic PR and marketing campaign to raise the profile of the college regionally.
Two of the most senior directors of hatch-group's founding subsidiary are to quit the company following disagreements with the parent company board.
JEWISH GROUP: Jewish community body the Board of Deputies has created two posts to replace PA director Fiona Macaulay, who left earlier this year to join the World Society for the Protection of Animals as deputy director general. Her role has been replaced with those of media officer and director of...
The international PR community has condemned President Bush's media operation on the Iraq crisis as unethical and untrustworthy, according to a survey out this week.
WALES: Newly created Welsh meat promotion body Hybu Cig Cymru is on the hunt for marketing, PR and advertising support for the financial year 2003-2004. The body aims to fund and organise around 2m worth of campaigns to promote the region's cattle, sheep and pig meat industries.
SAO PAULO: Brazilian oil giant Petrobras has hired local agency Publicom to handle its PR. The agency won the account through an official government bidding process. The Brazilian government controls Petrobras, which has shares traded in the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange. Publicom will provide media relations...
NEW YORK: Most companies measure their comms efforts infrequently and informally, if at all, according to a study conducted by US HR consultants Towers Perrin, in collaboration with the International Association of Business Communicators. Only 15 per cent of respondents reported giving attention to...
Communications super regulator OFCOM has announced the appointment of Radio Authority CEO Tony Stoller as its first director of external relations.
LISBON: Disney Channel has chosen Imago Imagen Y Comunicacao to handle PR for its expansion in Portugal. Account director Assuncao Loureiro said the Portuguese agency won a pitch against three other rivals. The six-month brief is aimed at expanding Disney Channel's market share against free rivals and...
