Year in review: 2011 Money and morals
16 Dec 2011 | by Kate Magee
As another year draws to a close, PRWeek takes a look back at the biggest comms stories of 2011 and awards Golden Baubles to those who provided some light relief. Kate Magee reports.
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As another year draws to a close, PRWeek takes a look back at the biggest comms stories of 2011 and awards Golden Baubles to those who provided some light relief. Kate Magee reports.
Campaign: Making 'Contactless' Streetwise with the World's First Cashless Busker Client: Barclaycard/Barclays PR team: The Red Consultancy; in-house Timescale: August 2010 Budget: 75,001- 100,000 The Red Consultancy was called in by Barclaycard to generate mass awareness of its contactless...
A few days after this column made note of how poorly in PR terms Lloyds Banking Group was handling the enforced absence of its chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio (PRWeek, 2 December), who is currently on a leave of absence to recover from stress and exhaustion, readers of the Financial Times woke...
Hudson Sandler has picked up a global electronics firm on the brink of entering the FTSE 250, as it emerges one of the agency's top practitioners has departed.
Axa has lost its lust for life with Iggy Pop and is axing the rock star from its swiftcover.com ads, replacing him with celebrity-voiced animated dogs.
Confused.com is launching a marketing campaign to promote a new tie-up with loyalty scheme Nectar.
Churchill Insurance is revamping its nodding dog brand mascot with a new marketing campaign starring actor Martin Clunes.
English rugby's former comms chief has taken a role as Bloomberg's top communicator in Europe.
Bishopsgate Communications has been taken on to handle comms for the float of a media firm that plans to make cartoons starring football boss José Mourinho.