29 Sep 2000
BSMG Worldwide has been voted a caring employer by working parents in an awards ceremony organised by charity Parents at Work, which campaigns for better deals for working parents. The agency's FlexiOption programme includes enhanced maternity leave on full pay and paid carer's leave.
29 Sep 2000
Restructuring at Havering Borough Council in London has identified the need for a head of communications to co-ordinate PR strategy. At present the most senior PRO is senior communications officer Jackie Feeney. The new role comes in above her. The new head will be in charge of building links with local,...
29 Sep 2000
The Royal National Institute for the Blind has launched a six-month education campaign, 'Changing the way we think about Blindness'. Handled solely by the charity's in-house five-strong communications team, headed by Lynne Stockbridge, the campaign aims to change minds about sight-loss and show that...
29 Sep 2000
| by JESSICA SUNG
MADISON, NJ: Shandwick and pharmaceuticals client Schering-Plough are under investigation by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) over allegations they engaged in a deceptive grass roots campaign to sell the hepatitis C drug Rebetron.
29 Sep 2000
| by GIDON FREEMAN
The Labour party s honeymoon with the electorate lasted longer than most expected. Rigorous news management, good economic figures and a plainly inept opposition meant that three years in, the Government still had a 20 per cent lead over the Tories in the polls.
29 Sep 2000
| by ROBERT GRAY
Major cultural and economic differences between countries make it difficult to consider Central and Eastern Europe as a homogeneous whole.
22 Sep 2000
| by ALLISON GILES
The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign has created a new board to advise
on communication issues.
The charity's Commmunications Advisory Board, an initiative of
recently-appointed communications head Leigh Chambers, met for the first
time last week. The board comprises ten people from outside...
22 Sep 2000
| by GIDON FREEMAN
The International Fund for Animal Welfare has brought its
campaigning PR function in-house following the emergence of a major
client conflict within its retained agency, Shandwick.
The global animal rights NGO terminated its relationship with Shandwick
last month upon discovering that the...
22 Sep 2000
Former Glasgow Lord Provost Michael Kelly is to join the Economic
and Social Research Council's external relations advisory group. The
role of the group, which meets three to four times each year, is to
present the Council's work to its variety of user organisations. Kelly,
who runs his own...
22 Sep 2000
| by PAUL MICHAUD
PARIS: President Jacques Chirac's Gaullist political party, the
Rassemblement pour la Republique, is spending pounds 220,000 on a
publicity campaign for the 24 September national referendum, which will
decide whether the French presidency's seven-year term can be reduced to
five years....