LONDON - England Hockey has appointed sponsorship, PR and event agency Capitalize to implement a PR campaign for the EuroHockey Nations Championships to be held in Manchester in August 2007.
LONDON - Pizza delivery chain Domino's has launched a 'Dough to Go' campaign to raise funds to help local athletes competing in the UK's Special Olympics get to the 2007 World Summer Games in Shanghai.
21 Nov 2006
| by by Ben Bold
LONDON - Holiday search engine Hotels.com claims it has experienced a 300% hike in searches for hotels based in Kazakhstan, thanks to the publicity generated at the box office by fictional Kazakh Borat.
LONDON - MySpace has hired Chris McCafferty, formerly the head of PR and corporate affairs at MSN UK, as its director of corporate communications for Europe.
25 Sep 2006
| by by Staff
LONDON - The businessman Gerald Ratner is bidding to buy back the jewellery chain he almost put out of business when he described its wares as 'total crap'.
LONDON - Production and talent company 19 Entertainment, set up by pop impresario Simon Fuller, has announced the acquisition of advertiser-funded content production company Freedom Media for an undisclosed sum.
07 Sep 2006
| by by Jennifer Whitehead
LONDON - Betfair has sign up as the title sponsor for the first event in a series of airborne races known as the Aero GP.
18 Aug 2006
Plastic furniture maker Movisi has brought in Wild Card PR to maximise the publicity generated by its chairs' appearance on Big Brother.
08 Aug 2006
| by by Joanne Oatts
LONDON – DJs at an Ibizan club night will use mobile phones to mix live tracks and play their sets as part of the 'Ibiza Rocks' festival.
05 May 2006
| by by Jennifer Whitehead
LONDON – 'Confetti', the new British comedy starring Jimmy Carr and Martin Freeman, is being promoted in a major online campaign and via a website that includes a Wedding-O-Matic to generate unusual wedding themes.