Jeff Raleigh, a senior consultant in corporate communications at
Hill and Knowlton is to launch the US arm of the agency’s web design
division, Netcoms. It will be run from H&K’s San Francisco office.
Netcoms’ clients include Schweppes, Shell and Roche. Netcoms chairman
Anthony Burgess-Webb said applying PR knowledge to internet and intranet
design would help Netcoms to compete in the US.