Ofgas director-general Clare Spottiswoode has told PR Week she will consider an investigation into claims that an anonymous campaign is being waged against independent gas company United Gas, if issues of competition are shown to be at stake.
Top accountancy firm KPMG Peat Marwick is poised to hire one or more PR firms to run an estimated six-figure PR programme strengthening the identity of its management consultancy arm in the UK.
SmithKline Beecham, the Anglo-American pharmaceuticals giant, is hunting for a financial PR consultancy in the UK to plug a gap in its media relations capability.
A coalition led by The Rank Organisation and London First is to spend an estimated pounds 30,000 to pounds 40,000 over two months on lobbying for a bill to put Britain permanently on Summer Time.
Whirlpool, the US white goods giant has appointed Julian Oliver, general manager of Edelman in Brussels and managing director of its European public affairs group, as its first European head of communications.
UK financial agencies are battling it out this month for a public relations account from Croatia s leading pharmaceutical company Pliva.
Hill and Knowlton is tipped to be appointed by Astra Pharmaceuticals to handle PR for its gastric ulcer treatment Losec - Europe s biggest- selling prescription drug.
Gordon s, Britain s leading brand of gin, is up for grabs following a decision by United Distillers UK to put the PR account out to pitch.
Fast food giant McDonald s is on the verge of appointing a lobbying firm to provide political monitoring and analysis.
Financial Dynamics is close to reaching agreement with its French parent, the advertising agency BDDP, over future ownership of the business.
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