18 Dec 2003
In a year in which many of its rivals suffered, Shine Communications has prospered, and with good reason.
18 Dec 2003
It gives you an idea of the parlous state of the PR agency sector when the chairman of industry body the Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA), Graham Lancaster, describes the average 10% fall in revenues in 2003 as "slightly better than last year".
15 Dec 2003
| by Ian Hall,
LONDON - Cake managing director Darren Thomas has resigned. Thomas will leave the agency, which he joined two years ago, at the end of the year. No replacement has yet been appointed.
15 Dec 2003
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON - The US put meticulous planning in place to ensure that the media announcement of the capture of Saddam Hussein did not backfire in the same way that the shooting of his two sons Uday and Qusay did in July.
15 Dec 2003
| by Julia Hood
The road to the C-suite is not paved solely with corporate communications, major announcements, or crisis work. Increasingly, as companies seek better ways to compete and for innovative programs to help consumers make decisions, even CEOs are taking a closer look at PR in the marketing mix.
15 Dec 2003
| by Chris Moore
It's time for the annual winner-take-all event where the best players battle for supremacy. In the sports world, most think I refer to the World Series. But in the corporate world, it's not about on-field happenings. It's about budgets.
15 Dec 2003
| by Melanie Shortman
From SARS to Sarbanes-Oxley to Britney and Madonna locking lips, Melanie Shortman looks at how PR played a powerful role in the major events of 2003.
15 Dec 2003
| by Paul Holmes
Here's the "good news" from the first paragraph of a press release issued by the International Association of Business Communicators: in a July 2003 poll, almost two-thirds of respondents said "yes" when asked whether they currently used any formal measurement tools to evaluate their communications...
15 Dec 2003
| by Sara Calabro
Sara Calabro discovers that healthcare PR strategies are now going beyond science in order to address consumers.
15 Dec 2003
| by Ian Hall
Cake managing director Darren Thomas has resigned.
Thomas will leave the agency, which he joined two years ago, at the end of the year. No replacement has yet been appointed.