10 Dec 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
UK sportswear firm Umbro is reviewing its six-figure fee UK
consumer and trade PR account.
10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
Lincolnshire County Council is taking its community consultation
programme to its residents with a branded body which will bring together
the area s seven district councils, the NHS trusts and Lincolnshire
Police. The citizen s panel will consult 3,500 people across the
community and will be called...
10 Dec 1999
| by MARK JOHNSON
HONG KONG: Ogilvy PR dominated the Asian PR Awards for the second
year running, with wins in three categories: healthcare; product
marketing, and community relations.
10 Dec 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Chrysalis Radio has named Mary Gopsill as managing director of its
newly formed Chrysalis Radio Online. She joins from media strategy
adviser Hydra and will be responsible for developing the Heart and
Galaxy radio brands on-line. Gopsill s previous experience includes
working for Carlton, where she...
10 Dec 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
The brewing industry has been undertaking something of a
pre-millennial marketing shake-up - in the past quarter, several of the
UK s largest beer brands have undergone agency changes.
10 Dec 1999
| by JULIETTE GARSIDE
National stereotypes were confirmed last week as Bastion staged a
commando survival day for European computer games hacks on a disused RAF
base in Hampshire.
03 Dec 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
Transport company Go-Ahead has appointed a new marketing director
to plan media strategies across the group. Martin Walter spent two years
as marketing and communications manager for Go-Ahead subsidiaries
Thameslink Rail and Thames Trains. He will report to group commercial
director Chris Moyes and...
03 Dec 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
Youth marketing and communications agency Soho PR has appointed
Dominique Flewitt to head its newly created broadcast division. Flewitt
has been working on a freelance basis for the agency since the beginning
of the year. A former sales manager at telecoms company Virtual
Universe, Flewitt had planned...
03 Dec 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
Burson-Marsteller has been appointed by spirit manufacturer Jim
Beam Brands (JBB) on fees in excess of pounds 500,000 to handle the
first pan-European campaign for the world s best-selling bourbon, Jim
Beam.
03 Dec 1999
| by GIDON FREEMAN
World Vision, the agency which gives aid through long-term
community development, is on the hunt for a UK PR manager after losing
previous PR head Jutta Devenish to its Vienna office, where she will
oversee regional communications for the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
The position falls within the...