While many public relations professionals continue to consider when they should resume their normal activity, some are rushing ahead with press releases and media pitches that—intentionally or otherwise—give the impression they are taking advantage of the
The UK’s Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has completed its first major PR tender since forming in 2008, appointing a slew of firms - including Weber Shandwick and Good Relations - to a four-year roster worth more than £21 million.
Alastair Campbell publicly questioned BP’s crisis strategy today, saying that the beleagured oil giant was paying the price for downgrading the importance of comms within the company.
Simon Sproule: I Felt Like a Fish Out of Water at Microsoft
News / Global / 2010
Simon Sproule stunned the PR world when he departed his role as Microsoft’s global comms chief after just five months. Now Paris-based as the global comms director for the Renault-Nissan Alliance, he sat down with the Holmes Report at the European Communications Summit to talk about why he made the dramatic decision, his agency hiring plans, and why the PR industry is starting to view him as a traitor.
Live from Brussels: Danish Crown comms chief Anne Villemoes
News / Europe (EMEA) / 2010
Anne Villemoes talks to the Holmes Report about how to manage reputation when you "kill for a living". Villemoes is director of comms for Danish Crown, one of the world's biggest food processing companies.
VIDEO: Shell's Herbert Heitmann Calls for Oil Industry to Face the Truth
News / Global / 2010
In a candid video interview at the European Communications Summit in Brussels, new Shell global comms chief Herbert Heitmann says that oil companies must make a better case for deep-sea drilling, despite BP’s woes in the Gulf of Mexico.
DKC has been retained by School of Rock as the organization’s agency of record, plus new clients successes for JohnstonWells Public Relations, Laidlaw Group, Risdall Marketing Group and LVM Group.
Hotwire has appointed Richard Janes as a director of its international banking and finance practice, plus new people in new roles at Waggener Edstrom and Metso Group, new business at M: communications and Beattie Communications.
Aerospace and defense company GenCorp has named Linda Beech Cutler, formerly GenCorp vice president, corporate communications, to the newly created position of vice president, corporate responsibility.
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