NEWS: PR praise and Labour brickbats for Lord Gummer
23 Aug 1996 | by REBECCA DOWMAN
Shandwick plc chairman Peter Gummer has been awarded a life peerage, along with fellow Tory communications adviser Maurice Saatchi.
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Kimberly-Clark has poached IBM s UK PR head Sarah Portway as its first director of corporate communications.
Shandwick plc chairman Peter Gummer has been awarded a life peerage, along with fellow Tory communications adviser Maurice Saatchi.
Burson-Marsteller has scooped the global corporate PR account for Anglo- Dutch conglomerate Unilever.
Save the Children has hired Corrine Woods as its new head of communications.
Alistair Mackinnon-Musson, a director of financial PR firm Financial Dynamics, is leaving after ten years to join its smaller rival Square Mile Communications.
The long lunch - as much a part of PR s popular image as pearls and gin and tonic - is a myth, according to a new survey of lunching habits released this week.
The Cable Communications Association has appointed Roy Payne as its first director of communications.
Satellite and cable TV channel European Business News is shaking up its PR with its first UK agency, a new public relations manager and the promise of a European agency appointment.
Liberty Publishing, the start-up media group headed by Harrods-owner Mohammed Al Fayed, is investing in a consumer, financial, corporate and political PR drive to help it crack the UK market.
International Distillers and Vinters (IDV) is launching a PR drive for its Jose Cuervo tequila designed to counteract the spirit s wild image and focus on brand quality and heritage.