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.
13 Dec 2006
| by by Maria Esposito
LONDON - The latest figures for Lord Bell's marketing services group Chime Communications indicate sustained growth for the company as its £30m acquisition of agency VCCP continues to bear fruit.
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.
05 Dec 2006
| by by Joe Lepper
LONDON - Stephen Carter, the former Ofcom chief executive and a frontrunner for the role of ITV chief executive, has returned to the agency world and taken up the role of group chief executive at City PR firm Brunswick.
London - Directgov, the government website that provides access to public services online, has launched a mobile version of the system.
LONDON - Homeless charity Shelter will today unveil a 30-metre Wall of Shame on London's South Bank to draw attention to its call on Chancellor Gordon Brown to fund an extra 20,000 social rented homes a year.
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 - 3V, an Irish company offering vouchers for people who do not want to use their credit or debit card online, has appointed MediaCom, VCCP, Experience and Unique for a £2m online, press and radio campaign to support its UK launch.
31 Oct 2006
| by by Beth McLoughlin
LONDON - WPP Group has merged an arm of JWT and Buchanan to form a new financial PR operation in the Middle East.
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.