Fleishman-Hillard wins the paper chase
Fleishman-Hillard has beaten off Burson-Marsteller to handle business-
to-business PR for Britain’s biggest stationery paper manufacturer UK
Paper. The paper firm, owned by New Zealand-based Fletcher Challenge
Group, is planning a European-wide PR push estimated to be worth in
excess of six figures.
WPP Group sees a rise in profits
WPP Group, parent company of Hill & Knowlton and Ogilvy Adams and
Rinehart, revealed an increase of 1.7 per cent in revenue from PR
activities for the third quarter of 1995, against the same period last
year. The increase was 2.1 per cent once currency movements,
acquisitions and disposals had been stripped out. Overall revenues rose
by 9.5 per cent over the same quarter in 1994, to pounds 376.6million.
Simmonds joins Shandwick Consultants
Karen Simmonds who quit financial agency Brunswick as an associate
partner earlier this year for the presentations business Fox, is to join
Shandwick’s financial and corporate agency Shandwick Consultants.
Simmonds who takes up her new post on 1 November said her decision to
return to financial PR was prompted simply by ‘missing it.’
Inntrepreneur takes on Burson-Marsteller
Pub chain Inntrepreneur Estates has appointed Burson-Marsteller to
handle government relations in the agency’s second win in the space of a
week. The appointment follows the arrival of new communications director
Fiona Antcliffe formerly group manager corporate affairs atCourage. B-M
has also been appointed to handle parliamentary monitoring for Glaxo
Wellcome UK.
PRET seeks outstanding campaigns
The Public Relations Education Trust is calling for examples of
noteworthy PR campaigns for publication, in a bid to improve the level
of PR education. The Trust, which is supported by both the PRCA and the
IPR, intends to publish the case histories in book form every six months
as a source of reference for students, trainees, PR practitioners and
clients. Call PRET on 0171 233 6026.
Infopress wins Reed Accountancy contract
Recruitment firm Reed Accountancy has appointed Infopress to raise its
profile as a professional recruitment adviser, following a six-way
pitch. The campaign will attempt an upmarket shift for Reed’s image as a
provider of temporary staff services and lower level permanent
placements.
Unipalm delays pan-Euro agency plans
Unipalm, the UK’s largest provider of connections to the Internet, has
put on hold plans to hire a pan-European PR agency in the wake of the
takeover bid by US Internet access firm UUNET. Meanwhile Unipalm is
looking to develop its in-house PR department by increasing staff from
two to four and expanding its internal communications and media
relations role.
Westminster Strategy recruits Golds
Lobbying firm Westminster Strategy has hired Peter Golds as an account
director from the Chemical Industries Association. Golds, a serving
Conservative councillor in Brent - a longstanding WS client - has
previously worked for MPs Rhodes Boyson and Michael Portillo.
Correction
Countywide Communications has asked us to point out that the agency did
not take part in pitching to the Paper Federation of Great Britain to
promote paper recycling, as reported in PR Week last week (October 20).
