15 Dec 2000
Top UK financial PR firm Brunswick has hired ex-Finsbury senior consultant Tim Grey. Grey joins next March as a senior associate partner. He left Finsbury last week after four years with the firm. His remit and team are yet to be decided.
15 Dec 2000
| by HOLLY WILLIAMS
City PR outfit Cardew & Co has signed up Nick Morrell, the former chief executive of platinum mining group Lonmin, as part of a recruitment drive to build up its executive team.
08 Dec 2000
Britannic Asset Management has appointed Capitalize to review its sponsorship strategy. The agency s brief is to design and implement fresh sponsorship campaigns for the company, the fifth largest pooled pension fund manager in the UK. The work is headed by MD Richard Moore.
01 Dec 2000
| by PETER SIMPSON
Mid-Kent Holdings, the parent of Mid-Kent Water, has replaced its financial PR agency of two years, Binns & Company.
The account was put out to tender following the September appointment of the new Mid Kent Holdings group CEO Keith Tozzi.
He replaced Geoff Baldwin, who retired in August....
01 Dec 2000
One of the best known names in the City - Sir Richard Kleinwort, founding partner of Cardew and Co - has joined Ogilvy PR Worldwide to spearhead the launch of its UK financial and IR division.
The banking heir left Cardew nine years after he helped set up the agency with four fellow partners from...
01 Dec 2000
| by JULIA HOOD
GEORGIA: Coca-Cola has been forced to overhaul its employee relations strategy as part of the settlement deal of a racial discrimination suit, which saw the company pay out pounds 137m.
A seven-member watchdog group is to be appointed jointly by the company and the plaintiffs' lawyers. In addition,...
01 Dec 2000
BRATISLAVA: Top five Czech PR consultancy Mozaic Group has opened an office in Slovakia. The eight-year-old agency, which traded until earlier this year as Interel, specialises in financial and new media PR work. The Bratislava office will be headed by Sona Bullova, who will report to Evzen Cekota,...
01 Dec 2000
| by Camilla Palmer
The Interpublic Group of Companies has acquired New York-based advertising agency Deutsch. Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, but the deal is estimated to be worth 200m- 300m.
01 Dec 2000
Havas Advertising is to buy US financial PR firm Abernathy MacGregor, after beating Cordiant Communications in the bidding stakes.
28 Nov 2000
Sir Richard Kleinwort has been hired by Ogilvy Public Relations to head up the new financial division of its London-based PR firm.