Agency of the Year 2005: Public Relations Agency of the Year - Frank PR
14 Dec 2005
Renaming The Whirlwind was a highlight in a year that saw this agency pull in more than £1m of new business and almost double its staff numbers.
LONDON - The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) has slammed the last-minute decision by Chancellor Gordon Brown to abolish the Operating and Financial Review (OFR) legislation.
Renaming The Whirlwind was a highlight in a year that saw this agency pull in more than £1m of new business and almost double its staff numbers.
NEW YORK - Mark Penn, one of the founders of leading opinion research company Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates has been appointed as worldwide chief executive of WPP Group public relations agency Burson-Marsteller.
For many people Tony Blair's third election victory will have been the political event of 2005. But for me the year's most significant moment was the speech I heard in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, a few months later.
Gestures to distance the industry from the duplicitous and manipulative behaviour known as 'spin' don't come much bigger than this.
News reaches Diary of a dramatic fall from grace for Finsbury, which came in a mediocre sixth out of eight at last week's PR Guild charity Christmas quiz, having romped to victory last year.
Youth marketing specialists Cake have, we learn, bagged a contract to promote a mobile service called Flirtomatic, which 'fully launches' nationwide in 2006.
The Football Association's strategy to 'cultivate relationships' with the nationals bore spectacular fruit last Friday.
Although Birmingham is my home I haven't worked here for over ten years.