The Irish department of health has appointed Drury Communications to provide general PR consultancy services following a competitive tender.
US telecoms company AT&T has promoted Dick Martin to vice-president for PR and employee communications. He was previously head of corporate public relations and took over as acting vice-president in July. Martin has a global remit and is responsible for a 400-strong PR division. AT&T has worked with...
Dutch banking group ABN Amro has hired Mmd as its first PR agency in Poland. Mmd s brief will be to raise ABN s profile with businesses and the government as competition intensifies from rival foreign banks. Gary Freemantle, head of Mmd s Warsaw office, said: We intend to differentiate Amro from the...
Computer network company Racal Data Group has appointed Ferck Euro PR to handle media relations in Germany. Ferck have replaced Prolog on the account, thought to be worth around pounds 100,000. The group retains agencies in Italy, France and Holland. A subsidiary of Racal Electronics, the group sells...
Jeff Raleigh, a senior consultant in corporate communications at Hill and Knowlton is to launch the US arm of the agency s web design division, Netcoms. It will be run from H s San Francisco office. Netcoms clients include Schweppes, Shell and Roche. Netcoms chairman Anthony Burgess-Webb said applying...
Computer network company Digi International has hired Rumeur Publique as its retained agency in France. The account is for business-to-business communications and the previous incumbent was Strategic Alliance. The switch follows a review conducted by Digi s European PR manager Niek van Bemmel, who was...
He s like our Uncle Richard. He s going to give us all his wisdom, burbled Chris Evans, the morning after he struck the deal with Richard Branson to buy Virgin Radio.
Jim Gray joined Channel 4 News as deputy editor in July 1997. He had a boss and a deputy and a show which was stable. Then his boss and his deputy left and Channel 4 issued an intellectual tender for production companies to come up with ideas for Channel 4 News - whereby current production company...
The decision to ban beef on the bone put Whitehall on the horns of a dilemma. Leader writers and commentators showed consistent sympathy for the financial ruin facing farmers and condemnation for the rush to implement a ban. Broadsheets and tabloids united against agriculture minister Jack Cunningham...
IPC Magazines has appointed Lesley Johnston as editor of Options from 1 February next year. She takes over from Maureen Rice, who is now IPC SouthBank s new product development editor. Johnston is currently editor of Mizz.
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