Stephen Waddington is the digital and social media director for Ketchum’s European operations. He is also the president of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), the professional body for the UK public relations industry, ...

Lindsay Jones PR, an independent, family-owned consultancy specialising in B2B communications, has been appointed by pet care franchise Petpals to manage and promote its brand. ‘The brief is to support Petpals, promote Petpals as the pet ...

WixHill Ltd, a travel and lifestyle specialist consultancy, has been re-appointed by SIMON Shopping Destinations, following a global competitive pitch. The new brief is to undertake an extended PR and marketing programme on behalf of ...

Citypress PR has appointed Chris Marritt as account director. In his new role, Chris will lead a number of national financial services and corporate briefs and form part of the agency’s senior reputation advisory team, ...

‘The week in PR’ is a look at all the top stories in public relations as reported by the media. Leading the news this week is Justin Bieber’s DUI arrest and the PR fiasco experts ...

Nilufar Fowler, current managing director of Mindshare Thailand, has been appointed to lead Mindshare’s Unilever account on a global level. Pathamawan Sathaporn, the current head of business planning in Mindshare in Thailand, will replace Nilufar ...

The charity Grow Movement has brought in PR firm Rain Communications to drive awareness of its mission, which is to help entrepreneurs in Africa build their businesses.  Grow Movement uses the business consultancy skills of ...

  Carat UK, the Aegis-Group-owned media planning and buying specialist agency, has promoted Matthew Hook to managing director. Dan Hagen, the head of planning, is also promoted to chief strategy officer, filling Matthews’s former role. ...

Following a competitive pitch, Vegesentials, the raw fruit and vegetable drink brand, has appointed Diffusion PR to manage its account ahead of its nationwide launch in Waitrose supermarkets. Vegesentails was up in 2012 by husband ...

‘The week in PR’ is a look at all the top stories in public relations as reported by the UK media in the past seven days. Leading the news this week is Edelman’s 2014 Trust ...

Brand Revolution, a strategic communications and talent agency, has appointed Sarah Armitage to the newly created role of head of endorsements and brand partnerships.  At Brand Revolution, Sarah will work directly with talent, negotiating and ...

Story PR, the independent food, drink and lifestyle agency, has has added two new businesses to its client portfolio including Rude Health Foods and salad dressing firm, Lucy’s Dressings. Story PR will partner with Rude Health ...

Hill+Knowlton Strategies (H+K) has won a three-way competitive pitch for the public relations brief for TV shopping firm, QVC. The business is reportedly worth a six-figure sum.  H+K replaces incumbent Mischief PR to help QVC ...

‘The week in PR’ is a look at all the top stories in public relations as reported by the UK media in the past seven days. Leading the news this week is Cision’s Top 10 ...

Aspectus PR has won a competitive pitch to handle the PR for ITG, an independent research brokerage firm. The agency will be working to develop the European markets’ understanding of the range of services ITG provides. The ...

David Jones, global chief executive officer of Havas, the sixth largest global advertising group, will be leaving the company to launch his own tech start-up. He is replaced by Yannick Bolloré, who is the son ...

UK Independence Party (UKIP) has appointed Patrick O’Flynn of The Daily Express, as its new director of communications. Patrick will leave his job of eight years as the chief political commentator at the newspaper in ...

Edelman UK has appointed Niaz Samadizadeh to the newly created position of head of sponsored content and media partnerships. Niaz will be responsible for strengthening and expanding Edelman UK’s paid content offering. He will report ...

‘The week in PR’ is a look at all the big stories in public relations as reported by the UK media in the past seven days. This week we’ve included all the news highlights over ...

WPP’s Mindshare today announced plans to acquire Media Arts System and Services Company, Inc. (MASSCOM) in the Philippines. MASSCOM is a single-client media agency that was set up exclusively to handle the media business for ...