BORDER LINES: FRANKFURT - BSMG announces senior hirings

Global agency BSMG Worldwide has opened two more German offices and appointed a joint managing director. The new Frankfurt office is headed by Andreas Walter and specialises in corporate PR. The new Berlin office, under Heiko Kretschmer, works on public affairs, lobbying the German parliament. BSMG’s German head office remains in Hamburg, where joint managing director Martin Bretad has left to become communications director for a Bremen-based energy company. His successor, who will work alongside remaining joint MD Wolfgang Raike, is Wolfgang Kreuter, former chief executive of ABC.