PR Week (UK) articles from May 2003

PR Week (UK) archives from May 2003

Chime's Morris quits PR to start new career.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Twenty-year PR industry veteran Trevor Morris has quit his post at Chime Communications' QBO Bell Pottinger and is considering retraining as a teacher. Morris - who took over as chairman and MD of the then Quentin Bell Organisation when...

easyJet pitches City PR on retained basis.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... No-frills airline easyJet is putting its City PR business out to pitch - marking the firm's first move to hire a retained agency. The low-cost carrier confirmed it is in talks with six financial PR consultancies, with a view to drawing up a...

OFCOM to set up a comms team with Peacock as head.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Communications super-regulator OFCOM is to build a communications team following the appointment of Matt Peacock as its first comms director. Peacock, who joins next month from mobile phone firm Hutchison 3G, where he was director of...

Cadbury defends sports campaign.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Cadbury Trebor Basset struck a defiant note this week after criticism of its 'misguided' campaign linking chocolate with the fight against obesity. Despite endorsement from stars including Audley Harrison and Paula Radcliffe, the firm's...

Threatened firms boost security for May Day protests.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... PR agencies named this week as targets of the May Day protest have upped security in a bid to safeguard staff and property against possible activist attacks. Agencies on the London Mayday Collective website, under the heading 'corporate...

Pharma firms hit back at C4's drugs documentary.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... The pharmaceutical sector this week hit back at a Channel 4 documentary - Dying for Drugs - which condemned drugs firms' conduct in the developing world. The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) director-general Dr...

Rooster set to handle travel launch.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... PR agency Rooster is masterminding the European launch of a travel industry organisation designed to help cut costs and improve efficiency throughout the troubled sector. Rooster will manage a B2B PR campaign, sales, marketing and...

McNally returns to Corp of London as PA counsellor.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... The Corporation of London has re-appointed Weber Shandwick UK vice-chairman Lord Tom McNally as its public affairs counsellor following a review of its lobbying needs. The reorganisation, overseen by PR director Tony Halmos, led to the...

Cater promoted at Ketchum while Lee fills a new position.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Ketchum London healthcare MD Mark Cater has been promoted to a newly created pan-European healthcare MD role. Meanwhile, Avril Lee last week quit Chandler Chicco Agency, where she had been a director for more than 18 months, to join...

STOP PRESS: WPP revenues for PR fall 9.5.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... RESULTS: WPP saw revenues for its PR interests - which include Finsbury, Ogilvy PR Worldwide, Buchanan Communications, Hill & Knowlton and Burson-Marsteller - fall by 9.5 per cent to pounds 103m, while ad revenues fell by 2.8 per cent to...

STOP PRESS: AstraZeneca to launch campaign.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... HEALTHCARE: AstraZeneca is to launch a campaign to promote its prostate cancer treatments. Galliard Healthcare Communications has been hired to handle the brief, which includes workshop organisation. The Galliard team reports to AstraZeneca...

STOP PRESS: Storm to promote V.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... CONSUMER: Storm Communications has been hired to promote energy-drink V, which is sponsoring the second series of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! that began last weekend. Storm director Caroline Fosbury heads the team, reporting to John...

STOP PRESS: Founder issues call for PROs.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... ACADEMIC: Hobsbawm Media + Marketing Communications founder Julia Hobsbawm has issued a call for PROs to supply case studies to furnish a new national 'PR case study library' at the London College of Printing. Hobsbawm will next week be made a...

STOP PRESS: Day Chocolate hires head of press.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... APPOINTMENT: The Day Chocolate Company, a fair trade company that works with Ghanian cocoa-growers, has hired Charlotte Borger as head of press. Borger, who joins next week, replaces Kate Wills, who joined Christian Aid as PR manager last...

STOP PRESS: Palletways extends JBP remit.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... B2B: Logistics firm Palletways has extended its remit with JBP Public Relations to cover PR in continental Europe. The Bristol-based agency has worked for Palletways in the UK only for the past two years.

STOP PRESS: Bulletin launches sport division.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... SPORT: Broadcast PR consultancy Bulletin International has launched a sport division to focus on gaining editorial TV coverage for sports sponsors, beyond sponsored events. Bulletin Sport will be headed by group MD Chris Foulerton.

STOP PRESS: Grandfield fee income.(Correction Notice)
May 2, 2003... CLARIFICATION: Grandfield, whose figures were omitted from PRWeek's Top 150 rankings, reported fee income of pounds 1,765,126 in the calendar year to December 2002 (a decline of 29 per cent on the previous year's income of pounds 2,475,664)...

Record number of entries for the IPR Excellence gongs.
May 2, 2003... The IPR Excellence Awards have seen record interest this year with 334 entries - five per cent more than in 2002. Judges have already shortlisted for the awards, which have an additional category this year as public/governmental affairs...

Brunswick given City PR brief for Carnival.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Brunswick has beaten rival Financial Dynamics in the battle to secure the City PR brief for the world's biggest luxury cruise firm, Carnival - worth pounds 12bn in market capitalisation following its takeover of P&O Princess Cruises. FD...

Inaugural NGO Watch sees human rights come to fore.
May 2, 2003... Human rights issues surrounding Iraq and the US dominate PRWeek's inaugural NGO Watch, which ranks charity and voluntary sector groups in terms of the media coverage they generate. Topping the survey is Amnesty International UK, which...

Diageo GB hires two firms for Gordon's and Pimm's.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Diageo GB has hired MacLaurin to promote Gordon's Gin, while Borkowksi PR has picked up the consumer PR contract for the drinks giant's Pimm's brand. The agencies - both of which were selected from Diageo's roster of preferred consumer PR...

Genasi's Eloqui is appointed for GE corporate PR in UK.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... General Electric, the world's largest firm by market cap, has hired former Weber Shandwick director Chris Genasi's start up Eloqui to handle its corporate PR in the UK. This is the first time GE has had external PR support specifically...

Deutsche Bank MD Bowman quits role for post at Tulchan.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Deutsche Bank high flyer and former investment banker Hilary Bowman has quit to take charge of the day-to-day running of City PR firm Tulchan Communications. Bowman, currently an MD in Deutsche Bank's European corporate advisory group, is...

Mobile body hires Hill and Knowlton for global comms.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Hill & Knowlton this week picked up a pounds 1m worldwide PR contract from the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA). The GSMA has hired H&K for a global government relations and PR brief after a four-way pitch held...

ELWa poised for a campaign to raise its national profile.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Wales's main education body is to embark on a PR campaign to raise awareness of its role among the adult population in Wales, partner bodies such as the Welsh Assembly and businesses interested in work-based training. The National...

Sars-masks firm considers agency hire.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... A company selling respirators to protect against the deadly Sars virus is considering hiring PR support to boost the company's profile and handle media enquiries. MD of SafetyMasks Brian Marin confirmed that he was interested in talking...

Dixons to bring consumer PR in-house after rethink.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... The Dixons Group has axed retained PR agency Le Fevre Communications following a decision to take consumer PR in-house. Le Fevre loses its account of three years, which saw it handle consumer and B2B PR for the group's electrical retail...

Ex-Beer Davies PR head Gethin takes Colman Getty role.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Former Beer Davies head of media relations Will Gethin has resurfaced at arts and literature specialist agency Colman Getty PR. Gethin joined Colman Getty last week after leaving Beer Davies in advance of that agency being subsumed into...

Ruder Finn to run PR campaign for health awareness.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Ruder Finn has been drafted in to promote a campaign to encourage patients to take an active role in their wellbeing by discussing their medicines with healthcare professionals. Ruder Finn won a five-way pitch held for the contract, which...

Capitalize gains Point Communications.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Capitalize has acquired specialist sports sponsorship agency The Point Communications, creating a merged agency of 18 staff. Point, which will no longer operate as a separate brand, brings three staff and its flagship client Yamaha Moto GP...

Hindle joins F-H on client counsel and staff training brief.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Retired Procter & Gamble PR veteran Peter Hindle has joined Fleishman-Hillard as senior consultant with a remit to provide high-end client counsel and staff training. Hindle, who retired from P&G last month after 32 years with the consumer...

PUBLIC SECT0R: East Riding appoints Lamb to woo residents and press.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... East Riding of Yorkshire Council has hired Canterbury City Council's head of policy and communications Carol Lamb to lead its PR. Lamb will join in July in a role previously held by Simon Taylor, who quit earlier this year to set up his...

PUBLIC SECT0R: Save the Children creates a PA dept to boost its clout.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Save the Children has created its first dedicated public affairs department following a merger of its campaign and lobbying teams. A Save the Children spokeswoman said campaigns and lobbying teams were brought together to better handle...

PUBLIC SECT0R: Cardinal seeks senior PRO to bolster image.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Catholic leader Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor is attempting to bolster his image, which has been tarnished following a spate of paedophile priest scandals, by hiring his first full-time senior PRO. It is understood that a shortlist of...

PUBLIC SECT0R: NHS workers are to be targeted by RNID.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) is to target NHS workers as part of a major campaign to launch later this year, aimed at improving access to health services. The campaign's purpose is to raise awareness of the problems...

PUBLIC SECT0R: Second phase of campaign launched.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... A joint campaign by Lambeth Council and the Metropolitan Police to target drug dealers in the borough has launched a second phase to concentrate on the Brixton area. This stage of the borough-wide 'Crack Out' campaign is called 'No Room for...

PUBLIC SECT0R BRIEF: Belfast Council hunt for PR support.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... NORTHERN IRELAND: Belfast City Council is on the hunt for external PR support to handle a year-long anti-litter campaign. The campaign is expected to include research into the behavioural factors which cause littering, in an attempt to improve...

PUBLIC SECT0R BRIEF: Director needed for horse protection.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... ANIMAL CHARITY: The International League for the Protection of Horses is looking for a new director of fundraising and communications following the resignation of Roly Owers from the role. Owers has left to become director of development at...

PUBLIC SECT0R BRIEF: Cancer Campaign beefs up communications.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... CHARITY: Breast Cancer Campaign, which concentrates on fundraising for research to combat the disease, is to beef up its communications. The charity has announced the creation of its first director of communications and marketing role. The...

PUBLIC SECT0R BRIEF: National Autism steps up PR efforts.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... AUTISM: The National Autism Society is stepping up PR efforts this month as it stages its annual autism awareness week. The week of campaigning includes a design competition at the University of East London, hosted by the charity's president...

PUBLIC SECT0R BRIEF: Dorset Safety Camera hires Harrison Cowley.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... CRIME: The Dorset Safety Camera Partnership has hired Harrison Cowley to handle its PR. The agency team reports to the Partnership's project manager Pat Garrett. The Partnership was created to reduce the number of road accidents in the county...

PUBLIC SECTOR BRIEF: Department of Transport targets manufacturers.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... TRANSPORT: The Department of Transport is targeting car manufacturers as part of a campaign to make vehicles more environmentally friendly. Manufacturers are being urged to submit proposals to create a 'green family car' capable of travelling...

PUBLIC SECT0R BRIEF: Community Channel includes deaf awareness.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... COMMUNITY CHANNEL: The Community Channel's line up of programming for May includes a week covering deaf awareness from 4 to 10 May. Also covered are missing persons (11-17 May), rights of way (18-24 May) and environmental issues (25-31 May).

INTERNATIONAL: Mercedes-Benz appoints Magnet to beef up PR in US.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... MONTVALE, NJ: Mercedes-Benz is beefing up its US PR efforts, hiring Magnet Communications as its first agency of record in the US. Department manager of sales, marketing, and corporate communications Donna Boland said the decision to hire...

INTERNATIONAL: Corallo to handle Iraq press work.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... BAGHDAD: Army veteran and Department of Justice press secretary Mark Corallo has been posted to Iraq to take over day-to-day press duties for the team led by retired US General Jay Garner. Corallo, who arrives in Baghdad this week, said he...

LETTER FROM AMERICA: Lack of transparency has far-reaching consequences.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
May 2, 2003... American Airlines' recent failure to be open and transparent over the issue of senior executive bonuses could damage the firm's relationship with employees, writes US commentator Paul Holmes. Ever wonder why Southwest Airlines, the most...

INTERNATIONAL: Le Greves is hired by Nissan Europe to replace Berthu.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... PARIS: Nissan Europe has hired Frederique Le Greves as its PR chief to succeed former vice-president of communications Denis Berthu. Le Greves joins from US automotive parts firm Delphi, where she has held various PR posts, most recently...

INTERNATIONAL: Swiss to bring PR expert on board in senior staff move.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... BASEL: Switzerland's revamped national airline Swiss - rebranded last year after the then Swissair filed for bankruptcy - is set to appoint a communications expert to the board following a senior staff reshuffle. The group is proposing...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: Marcoms executives offer glimpse.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... NEW YORK: Marcoms executives from companies such as Unilever and FedEx will offer a glimpse into their marketing programmes during PRWeek's Marketing and the Power of PR conference in the US this June. The conference, produced with Biz360,...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: Burger King ends US relationship.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... MIAMI: Burger King is ending its relationship with Weber Shandwick in the US, shifting its marketing comms to New York-based agency Coltrin & Associates. The agency will handle corporate PR as Burger King's new agency of record, reporting to...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: Nils Hansen president.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... COPENHAGEN: The Danish association of PR consultancies has appointed InformationsGruppen MD Nils Hansen as president. Hansen is also an external examiner at The Copenhagen Business School. He founded InformationsGruppen in 1972 and now lists...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: Vella takes additional title.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... DEARBORN, MICHIGAN: Ford V-P of public affairs Jim Vella has taken the additional title of chief of staff to chairman William Clay Ford. Vella will now manage the firm's staff and work more closely with the chairman. He will concentrate on...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: D&B Partners launches in Milan.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... MILAN: Full service agency D&B Partners has launched in Milan, founded by Francesca De Sanctis and Enrico Bruschi, formerly associate partner and account manager respectively of Milan tech PR agency Imageware. D&B launches with four staff,...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: AXA promotes Brunet.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... PARIS: French insurance giant AXA has promoted executive committee member Claude Brunet to vice-president of comms, based in Paris. She replaces Francoise Colloc'h and takes on a remit including comms, brand management, internal comms and HR.

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: Murray promotes director.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... DUBLIN: Murray Consultants has promoted director Pat Walsh to deputy MD, with a remit to develop the corporate and financial PR business with founding director Jim Milton. Walsh joined Murray six years ago and was promoted to director in 2001.

MEDIA: All change at The Guardian.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... The Guardian this week announced a series of senior editorial changes, including the promotion of Media Guardian editor Janine Gibson to take a newly created role overseeing four of the paper's supplements. Gibson has taken the new role of...

INTERNATIONAL: Tricks and Ratner move to property on revamped FT.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... The Financial Times has appointed Henry Tricks as residential property editor and Juliana Ratner as commercial property correspondent. Both Tricks and Ratner began work in their new roles last week, having moved from posts as Lex...

INTERNATIONAL: Maxim creates editorial role for TV PRO.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Lads mag Maxim has hired a former TV PRO as its entertainment editor. Darryl Butcher, who starts on the 250,000-selling Dennis Publishing title this week, has been a senior PRO in BSkyB's publicity department for the last five years, where...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: Rich producer for Saturday show.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... WEEKEND: Former Newsnight output editor Ben Rich has been appointed programme producer for BBC2's new political Saturday show, which starts at 9am on 10 May. Ex-BBC Radio 4 Today programme editor Rod Liddle and five's The Wright Stuff presenter...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: Haymarket Autosport to integrate product.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... AUTOSPORT: Haymarket's Autosport division is to integrate a long-standing niche radio product with online and print media for the first time, to target motorsport fans following the Le Mans 24-hour road race. Radio Le Mans will join forces with...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: Hachette Filipacchi hires editor.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... ALL ABOUT SOAP: Hachette Filipacchi has hired Dorothy Koomson as features editor for All About Soap. She replaces Francesca Babb, who quit to freelance at the end of February. Koomson, who was herself freelance, will report to editor Lorna...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: Polly Graham made assistant editor.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... SUNDAY MIRROR: Sunday Mirror showbiz columnist Polly Graham has been made assistant editor. The promotion is believed to have come in the wake of attempts by the News of the World to poach her. Graham was one of the Daily Mirror's 3am girls...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: Harvey editor of Top Gear.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... BBC MAGAZINES: Michael Harvey, former editor of Haymarket's Autocar, is to become editor of the BBC's Top Gear magazine in June. Harvey has been motoring correspondent of The Financial Times since 1999 and is currently in charge of the Land...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: Quality launches magazine.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... TOY MAX: Brighton-based Quality Communications is launching a magazine for the toy industry next month. Toy Max is aimed at collectors of models and action figures from TV series and movies, and will have a print run of 60,000. The title will...

INTERNATIONAL BRIEF: Fairley appointed beauty editor.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE: Josephine Fairley has been appointed consultant beauty editor at the 340,000-circulation Sainsbury's Magazine. The move is a response to research that found homes, travel and beauty were increasingly important to readers....

OPINION: The scramble for political credibility has begun.(Editorial)
May 2, 2003... The war is won, but now it's the turn of the politicians to rewrite history and make their own role a decisive one. The political PR battle was inevitably kicked off by the Prime Minister and, predictably, he chose his - but not Labour's -...

EDITORIAL: Cadbury attacks are not a surprise.(Editorial)
May 2, 2003... How many chocolate bars does it take to play a game of volleyball? The rather surreal answer seems to be 5,440, according to media reports on Cadbury Trebor Bassett's Get Active voucher scheme launched this week. As widely reported,...

EDITORIAL: NGO Watch to monitor charities' PR.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Even Cadbury's coverage however, pales in to insignificance compared to the media attention now given to NGOs and pressure groups. Increasingly these media-savvy organisations are turned to as authorative commentators on issues including...

ANALYSIS: Conflict of interest alerts politicians.
May 2, 2003... A ground-breaking deal between two London boroughs' PR teams has raised eyebrows across the local authority communications sector. In an unprecedented move by a local authority comms department, Richmond-upon-Thames Borough Council has called...

ANALYSIS: Millionaire? fraudsters use crisis PR for fallout.
May 2, 2003... Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? fraudsters Charles and Diana Ingram are using the same crisis PR adviser as the family of Fred and Rosemary West. In an exclusive interview, David Thomas tells Holly Williams of the PR challenge ahead More...

PROFILE: Glenn Manoff, O2 - Manoff ready to pen a new chapter for O2.
May 2, 2003... O2 head of comms Glenn Manoff is busy formulating PR for the year ahead With mobile services firm O2 celebrating its first birthday this week, this is just the right time for the brand to step on the PR gas, says the firm's affable head of...

DIARY: Even a 'friendly' PR girl may struggle to find love.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Harvey Nichols senior press officer Joanna Jeffreys last week became the latest PRO to volunteer for having her love life subjected to a searching analysis in Associated Newspapers' pages. The 32-year-old fashionista - introduced as a...

DIARY: Gillan's nascent brief at ManNotIncluded has an unfortunate start in life.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Gillan Media MD Adrian Gillan last week faced an uncomfortable start to his remit for ManNotIncluded.com, a service that anonymously matches sperm donors to lesbian and single women. An undercover investigation of MNI's Harley Street HQ by...

DIARY: Bell blows total charity allowance for tea and buns with Tory Duncan.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Times may be hard at Fleishman Hillard - cutbacks two weeks ago cap a couple of tough years for the US giant's UK operation - but apparently not for all involved. It has emerged that public affairs unit GPC's flamboyant managing director,...

DIARY: Mail fan wins a battle but the paper loses the war.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... Continuing the Associated theme, there was a good turnout last week at the Royal Geographical Society for Intelligence Squared's latest debate - 'This house believes the trouble with this country is the Daily Mail'. The Times assistant...

DIARY: Daylight robbery scene at Fourth Day PR's office.(Brief Article)
May 2, 2003... The daily routine of London Bridge-based B2B and tech agency Fourth Day PR was temporarily fractured last week when Crimewatch paid a visit to reconstruct events that the Metropolitan Police hope will lead to the capture of a criminal. ...

Defiant Evans won't resign over swearing.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2003... Strategic Rail Authority comms director Ceri Evans this week rejected calls for his resignation over a leaked phone message in which he repeatedly swore at a media contact. Evans apologised for what he termed his 'stupid and...

BBC gives a lobbying role to ex-Royal aide.(former Prince of Wales aide Manon Williams hired)(Brief Article)
May 9, 2003... The BBC has appointed former Prince of Wales aide Manon Williams to lead its lobbying over regional broadcasting. It was announced this week that Williams, currently head of public affairs for the corporation in Wales, has been promoted....

'Fierce PR market' sees profits drop at Incepta Group.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2003... Citigate Dewe Rogerson parent Incepta Group this week announced a 31 per cent slump in PR profits, describing the trading climate as 'one of the fiercest PR markets for years'. The group said The Red Consultancy, which it acquired two...

BT drops Cake from broadband remit.(BT is rethinking its public relations tactics)(Brief Article)
May 9, 2003... BT has axed Cake from its broadband communications campaign as the group rethinks its PR tactics. Cake will remain on BT's roster for ad-hoc project briefs, but sees its work for the group's broadband push grind to a halt nearly a year...

PRWeek readers rank Churchill top UK communicator.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2003... PRWeek readers have named Winston Churchill as the greatest British communicator of the 20th century. For the first time in a major online survey, PRWeek asked readers to nominate the person they thought best used the media to communicate...

WS North lures Leigh from Harrison Cowley in revamp.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2003... Harrison Cowley Manchester office chief and associate director Steve Leigh has quit to join Weber Shandwick North as deputy managing director. The hire follows a top-level restructure at WS North, which has also seen Jo Leah promoted to...

Tiscali UK shortlists seven in search to replace Lewis.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2003... Seven agencies have been shortlisted to handle consumer and corporate PR work for internet service provider Tiscali UK. Tiscali UK PR and communications manager Jody Haskayne confirmed she was 'reviewing agencies' and said she expected to...

Capital Radio sets new commercial brief for Propeller.(Brief Article)
May 9, 2003... Capital Radio has hired Propeller Communications to handle a newly created brief to promote the group among advertisers. This is the first hire of a retained agency for the group's commercial division, which handles the advertising side....