Pensions crisis is looming for PROs
01 Dec 2005
If you run a search for the keyword ‘pensions’ in newspapers, specialist publications and online, you are be assailed by an avalanche of references. Pensions are no longer dull.
Gordon Brown’s announcement this week that he is to axe the nascent OFR (operating and financial review) came as a genuine shock to corporate communicators.
If you run a search for the keyword ‘pensions’ in newspapers, specialist publications and online, you are be assailed by an avalanche of references. Pensions are no longer dull.
Over the past few years a sustained campaign by the CBI has put red tape and the prospect of tax increases at the centre of attention – so much so that Gordon Brown sought in his speech at a CBI dinner last Monday to establish his deregulation credentials (albeit by threatening to spike another department’s...
Has Tesco's mission to take over the world hit a snag? After years of steady expansion into every area of our lives, criticism of the retail behemoth seems to be mounting in volume and variety.
We have all heard the saying 'a good day to bury bad news', but last week saw the first good day to bury good news. Gordon Brown 'launched' the 2018 English World Cup bid just as the best economic news of the year broke. This might seem like a monumental blunder, but do not be fooled.
Peter Thomas, Accenture UK and Ireland marketing and comms director, on the 'committed' Samantha Lucas.
'Is VoIP the next tech PR goldmine?' was interesting, if a little odd (PRWeek, 11 November). Sure, VoIP represents an opportunity for PR companies with a client or two in that sector, but 'the next tech PR goldmine'? No more or less than many other technology innovations of the past decade or two.
I was amazed to read that some PR consultants feel public sector bodies operate 'overtly PC' procurement tenders ('Public sector cake needs dividing fairly,' 11 November). It must be tiresome for people in a predominantly white, middle-class industry to have to think about issues such as diversity when...
It is good to see that PRWeek is, at last, printing a recycle logo. I am amazed at how long it has taken the magazine to take this action, given the industry in which it operates and the information it provides about public affairs and CSR.
It’s not every Saturday evening that you get an apology from an alleged mass murderer.