PR Snippets - the Latest News
24 September 2012
- UK retailer Debenhams has handed its retained financial PR account to Brunswick after splitting from FTI Consulting.
- Ketchum Pleon has hired Harry King as practice director in its healthcare division, with a brief to grow the business. He joins after seven years at Porter Novelli, where he was part of the senior healthcare leadership team.
- The Royal College of Nursing is this week launching a campaign to boost public attitudes towards the profession. It will include bus ads throughout the UK, as well as an online video. It is hoped the campaign will address recent concerns about poor care in the NHS.
- Facebook is on the hunt for its first UK MD to help navigate its next phase of development who will be responsible for the day-to-day running of Facebook UK.
- Ciro Dias dos Reis, president of Abracom (Brazilian Association of Communication Agencies) and CEO of Imagem Corporative, says the PR market in Brazil is expected to grow by an impressive 25 per cent in 2012 in the run up to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.
- Splendid Communications’ strategy chief has been handed a new Europe-wide combined comms and advertising role at converse.
- Swiss consumer goods giant Nestlé has called in Portland to handle a wide-ranging UK comms brief, which encompasses corporate and public affairs, CSR and social media work.