Taylor Wimpey Central London has appointed property comms specialist Debbie Standen as head of PR and marketing. Standen will head up Taylor Wimpey’s Central London global PR and marketing efforts to promote the division’s brand and property portfolio. She joins from Luchford, where she headed up the agency’s property and real estate division. She brings […]
Manifest has appointed Christian Anderson-Ramshall to lead its in-house content division, The O Collective. Anderson-Ramshall is tasked with growing the agency’s creative production team to meet global client demand. He will also be responsible for integrating Manifest’s proprietary influencer network, Roger, into the creative production process and building O’s own global strategic partnerships outside of […]
David Morgan, executive chairman of The Mission Marketing Group, discusses why it’s sometimes important to push back against some client demands. The best way for clients and agencies to work together is through listening to, and utilising, each other’s strengths. The client knows its business and their sector best, while the agency knows (or should […]
Global vintage sportswear company Mitchell & Ness International has appointed Mercieca to handle its integrated comms brief. The agency will be responsible for the company’s PR, design, experiential and influencer engagement activity in the UK. Mercieca is also tasked with relaunching the brand’s NBA Hardwood Classic Swingman Collection in July, alongside activations of its own […]
Chris O’Donoghue, CEO of Mongoose, elaborates on the agency’s rapid expansion, how sponsorship and PR go together and how a sporting ethos runs throughout the agency. Why did you decide to set up Mongoose? My business partner, Laura Pollard, and I originally set up Mongoose as a sponsorship activation agency as we believed there was a […]
Blackstock Consulting has appointed Rhys Jones as a director to expand its corporate, financial and crisis management offering. Jones will lead the company’s financial and crisis management consultancy work, as well as taking a prominent role in its ongoing work with DP World and Grainger. He was previously group head of PR at construction and […]
Birmingham-based PR, marketing and event management agency Rewired has appointed Amy Williams as senior account manager. Williams will be responsible for managing delivery of PR, marketing, content and events across a number of the agency’s accounts, including Mailbox Birmingham, Heal’s, Cadbury World, Tom’s Kitchen and Kirstie Allsopp’s Handmade Fair. She has a range of both […]
Mark Lonsdale, producer at Leap Films, marks the start of the Cannes Film Festival by revealing why PR professionals are beginning to embrace the use of film. Let’s call it a slow motion revolution! Slowly but surely, in uncertain steps, we see PR embrace film. The impact of moving images as a scroll stopper and […]
Black Sun has appointed Anne-Sophie Breband as head of social media, leading its social media offer to FTSE and international clients. Breband will be responsible for growing the agency’s social media offering, using her experience in defining and delivering effective social media comms that will help clients reach, engage and influence stakeholders. Reporting to chief […]
Licensing company Intercity Group has appointed instinct as the retained UK PR agency for the Cath Kidston Watches brand. Instinct will handle all of the brand’s press and publicity in the UK market, engaging in campaign development, targeted media relations, product seeding and seasonal press events, as well as devising and implementing an influencer strategy. […]