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The planned merger between the Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) and Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) is likely to result in the scrapping of the communications department at UBS London-based investment banking business.
Insurer Commercial Union has picked Lansons Communications to handle its media relations account following a review last month. The review was sparked by an increase in the size of CU s in-house department. Edelman PR Worldwide held the account previously.
Top building society Nationwide has won the Investors in People Outstanding Practice Award for the quality of its communications with its 14,000 employees.
Fund manager Framlington has hired Lansons Communications to build its product and corporate profile in the UK. Framlington had previously used Lowe Bell Financial, which repitched for the account.
Dutch banking group ABN Amro has hired Mmd as its first PR agency in Poland. Mmd s brief will be to raise ABN s profile with businesses and the government as competition intensifies from rival foreign banks. Gary Freemantle, head of Mmd s Warsaw office, said: We intend to differentiate Amro from the...
The dust may have settled on the civil unrest that surrounded the birth of the new South Africa, but for businesses operating in the rainbow nation, the process of change is only just beginning.
Many public relations consultancies based in the Home Counties, from Kent and Surrey to Berkshire and Oxfordshire - but based just outside London - would take great exception to hearing themselves described as regional businesses. That tag, they might assert sniffily, belongs to agencies located in...
Defending a hostile bid is intricate, painstaking work for PR firms representing their clients. Defences can go on for weeks on end, with plans jealously guarded to keep the opposition guessing ... usually, that is.
Pensions group NPI has hired Paul Green as communications manager. Green, who joins from Charles Barker, will report to Ian Martin, NPI s head of corporate affairs. The appointment comes as NPI attempts to convince members that it should retain its mutual status.
Commercial law firm Nabarro Nathanson has appointed Susan Hollingsworth as its first dedicated internal communications manager. She joins from Samsung where she had held both corporate and internal communications jobs. Hollingsworth s new role was previously split between the firm s PR manager and personnel...
