NEWS: Rank makes plans to tackle media image
27 Sep 1996 | by JOHN-PIERRE JOYCE
Rank Organisation, the UK leisure group, has hired Susan Donovan as its first director of PR in an effort to improve its poor record on communicating with the media.
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NBC Europe has poached Jane Gash from Turner Broadcasting and appointed her as its first head of European Media and Communications. Gash will join the European arm of the US television network NBC Superchannel on 7 October.
Rank Organisation, the UK leisure group, has hired Susan Donovan as its first director of PR in an effort to improve its poor record on communicating with the media.
British Airways has revamped its in-house communications department under four divisional heads as the company embarks on its pounds 1 billion worldwide cost cutting programme.
Richard Sermon is returning to Shandwick Consultants, the agency he founded with Peter Gummer back in 1979, after four years on secondment to investment bank Goldman Sachs International.
The Quentin Bell Organisation has joined forces with a leading business academic to devise what it calls the first 3-D audit for corporate and product brands.
The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board is spending dollars 300 million (pounds 137 million) on a five year global marketing drive to woo tourists and sell Singapore as an investment centre for tourism businesses. The UK PR slice, worth around pounds 100,000 in fees, has gone to Kable Public Relations.
Citigate Communications has scooped an estimated pounds 200,000 fee account from NatWest Ventures, the venture capital arm of NatWest Group.
Colin Byrne, head of public affairs at Shandwick Consultants, is rejoining his old boss Peter Mandelson, chairman of the Labour Party s election campaign planning group, on a part-time basis.
Korean industrial giant Daewoo has seconded one of Hill and Knowlton s most senior European executives to review its European marketing and PR operations. The appointment is thought to be worth several hundred thousand pounds to the agency.
Brewer Marston, Thompson and Evershed is spending around pounds 50,000 on a PR drive for its premium lower calorie bottled beer Low C .