NEWS: Bernstein signs up with FoE
13 Dec 1996
Friends of the Earth, the environmental charity, has appointed Simon Bernstein as its new communications director.
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The Chilean embassy will next week hold a four-agency pitch to select its new UK agency. The embassy s commercial department is seeing presentations from Burson- Marsteller, GCI, the Rowland Company and Hill and Knowlton for the pounds 300,000 budget account.
Friends of the Earth, the environmental charity, has appointed Simon Bernstein as its new communications director.
The future of Hollander PR s most famous consultant - Prince Edward s girlfriend Sophie Rhys-Jones - was this week the subject of furious speculation following the departure of agency managing director Murray Harkin.
Omnicom s worldwide PR group Ketchum PR is to sign a contract this week to buy Scope Communications Group.
Janie Ironside Wood, chief press officer at Independent Television News, is quitting to join BBC Worldwide.
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Weber Group, the US-owned hi-tech agency, has been purchased by advertising group McCann-Erickson Worldwide.
Samsung Electronics, part of the South Korean electronics and industrial conglomerate Samsung, has handed Charles Barker its estimated pounds 150,000 UK and Ireland PR account.
The Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) has hired The Communication Group as its public affairs consultancy to help highlight the contribution which advertisers make to the economy.
Mobile telecommunications firm Orange is to take its press office functions in-house early next year with the arrival of three staff from its public relations agency Paragon Communications.