10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
The PR industry will enter the new millennium with increased status
and confidence following the overwhelming success this week of Text
100 s stock market listing.
10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
Merchant bank NM Rothschild and Sons has been in talks with, among
others, Aviva Gershuny Roth, former corporate communications head at
utility company the Energy Group, about filling its corporate affairs
director vacancy. The bank confirmed the discussion, but said nothing
had been formalised. The...
10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to review arrangements
for the distribution of price-sensitive company information. This could
lead to information being released first on commercial news wires rather
than the London Stock Exchange. The change would come when the exchange
transfers responsibility...
10 Dec 1999
| by ED SHELTON
US software developer ARC Cores, whose revenues for this year are
expected to exceed pounds 3 million, is seeking a financial PR agency as
it prepares for a London IPO in early 2000. The company is expected to
be valued at over pounds 400 million next year. ARC Cores has over 100
staff based in the...
10 Dec 1999
| by JULIETTE GARSIDE
Sun Life and Provincial Holdings, the UK umbrella group for French
insurance giant AXA, has made its government and community affairs
manager redundant and is deciding whether or not to keep its lobbying
agency, APCO.
10 Dec 1999
| by JULIETTE GARSIDE and SEBASTIAN VESPER i
Financial PR agency Lansons Communications has set up a specialist
internet PR agency, Lansons Digital Media, with an initial pounds
200,000 in business.
10 Dec 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
August.One Communications, the consumer spin-off of hi-tech PR
specialist Text 100, has selected Sydney, Australia to open its first
branch outside the UK. The 12-strong office is headed by managing
director Ava Lawler, formerly head of Text 100 in Australia. Lawler s
post at Text 100 has been taken...
10 Dec 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Financial News, the weekly newspaper for the investment banking and
securities industry, is opening a new office in Paris, its first outside
the UK. It will be headed by William Wright, currently news editor, who
moves to France in mid-January. As bureau head he will establish the
Paris base and a network...
10 Dec 1999
| by JEMIMAH BAILEY
Live Publishing International is launching a new personal computer
title, PC Explorer, on 23 December. The monthly magazine will provide
readers with help for common PC problems, as well as software reviews
covering interests such as gardening, health and personal finance. Live
Publishing is a new company...
03 Dec 1999
| by DAVID MCCORMACK
Former Guardian Royal Exchange investor relations director Richard
Bowler has joined College Hill. Bowler will head its 12-strong financial
services team along with James Henderson and Simon Astley. Bowler will
report to College Hill chairman Alex Sandberg. His job at GRE
disappeared when Axa took over...