Scandinavian IT firm EC Soft has selected Key Communications to handle its UK media relations. Key, which won the account after a competitive pitch last month, will promote the firm in the business and IT sectors.
Marks and Spencer Financial Services has hired Positive Profile on a retainer to work on the company s unit trust reports. Positive Profile previously worked for M s financial services arm on a two-month project redesigning the reports.
QBO founder Quentin Bell this month became the seventh advisory board member of business TV and video production company Fifth World. Bell is the first PR professional on the board and will advise on projects including a programme series on communicating business success and failure which is being made...
IT PR specialist Johnson King PR has been hired to handle corporate PR for telecom company Satellite Media Services. Johnson King won the pounds 50,000 fee account last week after a non-competitive pitch. The agency will promote the company s satellite communications network, which use the internet...
PricewaterhouseCoopers is recruiting two internal communications managers following the merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers and Lybrand this year. The first post covers staff publications and will involve leading a team of four to establish an editorial policy across print and electronic media. The...
PR Week s fourth annual Communicating Business Strategy conference is being held on Thursday 21 January at The Dorchester. The theme is Your People as Brand Evangelists and will be chaired by Will Whitehorn of Virgin Management. Call Tania Cassell on 0171 413 4116 for details.
Trudi Harris has been appointed to head a new UK and EU communication drive for the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, not the country agencies English Nature, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Countryside Council for Wales, which have their own in-house PR function (PR Week, 4 Dec 1998).
The newly-created Youth Justice Board for England and Wales is looking for its first PR head as well as an external agency to communicate the Government s election promise to cut youth offending.
Alternative health products company Dynamic Health UK, linked to controversial promoter Rod Gunner, is being sued for breach of contract by two PR practitioners.
Whitbread Beer Company has restructured its in-house PR across its range of beer brands, which include Heineken and Stella Artois, with the appointment of a brand communications director.
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