A new Edinburgh public relations consultancy has launched with the opening of Miss Smith PR headed up by Rebecca Smith.The agency will be based in Edinburgh working with several consumer and business clients on a consultancy basis. Smith has built... Read more
Interior design company Hollijon and Phillips has appointed Freshwater Scotland to handle its PR and media relations. Hollijon and Phillips provide interior design services for private clients and commercial contracts, including show homes,... Read more
World-renowned golfing institution, The Belfry, has appointed Midlands PR agency Cognition to help promote its leisure-break, resort, meetings and conference facilities. During the contract the agency is tasked with raising the profile of The... Read more
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has appointed Golley Slater to handle its PR in England and Wales for the next three years, after reviewing its agency arrangements.Golley Slater was appointed to the account, worth £300... Read more
Global gas and chemicals company Air Products, has appointed 2008 start-up The Agency to spearhead its Europe-wide communication for performance chemical solutions in the construction market.The brief requires The Agency to work alongside Air... Read more
Thompson has been appointed by rugby Super League champions Leeds Rhinos as its retained marketing agency.Thompson came through a five-way pitch and will be responsible for all advertising and communication for the rugby league club throughout... Read more
The Thinking Agency has appointed a new managing director and formed a new board of directors.Long-term business partners, Robert Allwood and James Eate, have now stepped back from the day-to-day running of the agency. The reins have been handed... Read more
Wunderkind director Phil Hawkins, tipped for the top by Steven Spielberg, has teamed up with Manchester’s Air Advertising and The Gate Films to produce a new advert for furnishing retailer Housing Units.The new TV advert was shot on location... Read more
A new marketing agency has launched with the aim of helping UK businesses break into mainland Europe.Based at World Heritage site Saltaire in West Yorkshire, TEMA will provide a range of marketing services from multi-lingual website design to... Read more
Business Link Northwest has unveiled a list of 42 companies which will provide its marketing services for the next three years.The total value of the account is £10m. The list was compiled following a tender process, which was evaluated by... Read more
Leeds advertising agency Poulters is to be axed by its parent company Bezier, in a move which puts around 42 jobs under threat.Bezier CEO, Mark Shaw, told The Drum: “We tried to integrate the offering over the last 18 months but we have to... Read more
Three Hasgrove owned businesses Connectpoint, Amaze Europe and Pavilion are set to merge to create a new marketing and technology company, Amaze plc.The businesses will come together and rebrand on 15 September, forming a company with a combined... Read more
SIS, producers of thousands of hours' worth of global TV programming, has tasked Oxford's JJ group to handle an integrated campaign.SIS produces and broadcasts thousands of hours’ worth of live global programming using satellite technology.... Read more
Dear Uncle Carl,I travel a lot in my job throughout the UK, so much so that I am not able to see as much of my wife and baby daughter as I would have hoped. I am missing her grow up, and am not sure how to go to my boss and discuss the situation... Read more
Starting off around Glasgow’s M8, then, we have reports that two agency MBO’s – including one at Frame - have been the subject of delays.Another delay near the M62 as The Direct Marketing Group puts its planned floatation on hold... Read more
This week the Scottish Government announced that over 130 agencies are through to the second stage of its tender process.The list seems large and as The Drum went to press it was still unclear what exactly agencies will be expected to do to... Read more
In the halcyon days of 1970, the Glastonbury festival cost just one pound to enter, and for your money you’d not only get to laze to the trippy sounds of Marc Bolan’s T-Rex, but drink as much free milk from the cows grazing around you... Read more
It is David Cairns’ first time in Edinburgh. Elmwood’s airy New Town office is a million miles away (not quite literally, though as close as you can get) from his Australian homeland.On a whistle-stop tour of Europe, Elmwood’s... Read more
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