People-News.com, the celebrity and entertainment website, has hired Ogilvy PR Worldwide to handle corporate and business-to-business PR. Director of e-commerce, Barbara McCall, will head the account reporting to PeopleNews.com PR and marketing manager, Charlotte Weston.
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.
NewsCast, the online picture library for businesses, has appointed QBO founder Quentin Bell to its board. Tim Melville-Ross, former Institute of Directors director-general, has been appointed NewsCast chairman.
Scottish Power has hired CGI to work on its corporate reporting. The account will include the usual annual report, along with environmental and community reports, web development and other corporate literature.
American style magazine IN STYLE, set to launch here in 2001, has hired an in-house communications team. Ellie Harris, previously PR director at agency Yellow Door, will take the role of communications director; Anna Heywood, former Aurelia PR account executive, becomes communications manager. They...
Hill & Knowlton has won the public affairs contract for trade body the Quarry Products Association. Work starts in February, following a five-way competitive pitch.
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FTSE 250 property company Taylor Woodrow has hired Tony McGarahan for its most senior PR role.
Global technology giant EDS has hired broadcast and online PR firm Bulletin International to run a European communications strategy.
Recruitment agency Adecco has retained financial agency College Hill, formerly with recruitment rival Manpower.
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