Business News - June 2010

    • Wednesday, 30 June 2010

      ESSENTIALLY SIGNS UP SPORTINGBET AS BETTING PARTNER TO TEST MATCH GROUNDS

      Leading sports marketing agency Essentially has brokered a deal which sees online gaming site Sportingbet become the Official Betting Partner of the English Test Match Grounds for the next two years. To celebrate this relationship, Alec Stewart will be coming back in:play as Sportingbet brand ambassador.The sponsorship will use Sportingbet’s...

    • Tuesday, 29 June 2010

      VCCP creates new integated campaign for Wartner

      Omega Pharma UK is launching an integrated campaign through VCCP for Wartner — the UK’s No. 1 home freezing treatment for warts and verrucas.The focus for the campaign is Wartner’s new measuring tool which makes it easy to freeze off warts and veruccas by ensuring that treatment is applied for...

    • Friday, 25 June 2010

      VCCP Health appointed by Roche

      VCCP Health has been appointed by Roche to handle the global launch of a new drug to treat a serious form of skin cancer called melanoma. The agency beat four other agencies to win the pitch.- ENDS -For further information please contact Paul Phillips, Managing Director at VCCP Health on...

    • Wednesday, 23 June 2010

      Bell Pottinger Public Affairs Further Strengthens Team

      Bell Pottinger Public Affairs (BPPA), part of the Bell Pottinger Group, has hired Stephen Lotinga as an Account Director.  His appointment further strengthens BPPA’s Liberal Democrat credentials - Stephen will join director Neil Stockley, widely regarded as one of the most respected Liberal Democrat consultants in the public affairs industry. Stephen...

    • Tuesday, 22 June 2010

      adidas continue to support British Basketball through to 2014 via Fast Track

      Global sports apparel manufacturer adidas has shown its support to British Basketball by agreeing to continue its association as the Official Apparel Partner through to 2014. This agreement will see all GB teams playing in adidas kit at all major championships for the next 4 years.British Basketball, who also recently...

    • Friday, 18 June 2010

      Bio Nano Consulting enlists Good Relations to raise pharma profile

      De Facto, part of Good Relations, has been appointed by Bio Nano Consulting, the specialist consultancy to the bio and nanotechnology sectors, as its retained PR agency.The De Facto team, Good Relations’ specialist life science and biotech division, have been engaged by Bio Nano Consulting to undertake an extensive messaging...

    • Thursday, 17 June 2010

      Pelham Bell Pottinger wins Ncondezi Coal Company

      Pelham Bell Pottinger, part of the Bell Pottinger Group, is now acting as the retained financial and corporate PR advisor for the recently AIM-listed Ncondezi Coal Company.  Ncondezi Coal is an emerging coal development company with excellent exploration assets in the expanding Moatize coal basin of Mozambique.  The Company expects...

    • Wednesday, 16 June 2010

      ALTERNATIVE HOTEL GROUP APPOINTS PELHAM BELL POTTINGER

      Pelham Bell Pottinger, part of the Bell Pottinger Group, has been appointed by Alternative Hotel Group (“AHG”), the UK's leading independent hospitality group and owner and operator of the De Vere and Village hotels and venues brands, as its corporate public relations adviser.The account will be led by Chime Communications’...

    • Wednesday, 16 June 2010

      Fast Track increases its top level brand, insight and international expertise

      Fast Track, the international sports marketing agency, has attracted two outstanding industry talents to its senior team.Mark Joy is joining Fast Track from fellow Chime Company, BMT with responsibility for broadening the company’s planning, marketing, brand and new business insight.Julian Yeomans joins from MEC Access. He brings a wealth of...

    • Tuesday, 15 June 2010

      CLUFF GOLD APPOINTS PELHAM BELL POTTINGER

      Pelham Bell Pottinger, part of the Bell Pottinger Group has been appointed by AIM-listed Cluff Gold to advise the Company on its investor relations.  Cluff Gold, a producing gold company with mining assets in West Africa, is looking to produce over 100,000 oz of gold in 2010.The Pelham Bell Pottinger...

    • Monday, 14 June 2010

      VCCP launches new TV campaign for Jungle Formula

      VCCP has created a new TV campaign for Omega Pharma, which breaks on 17th June. The 30” TV commercial, for Jungle Formula Insect repellent, is the first major campaign for the brand for several years.The campaign aims to expand the appeal of Jungle Formula, the number one insect repellent in...

    • Monday, 14 June 2010

      Voting Rights and Capital

      Chime Communications PLC confirms that it’s issued share capital consists of 73,385,624 ordinary shares each with voting rights at the date of this announcement. No ordinary shares are held in treasury. The figure of 73,385,624 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will...

    • Monday, 14 June 2010

      STRI PICKS PTARMIGAN BELL POTTINGER FOR GLOBAL PR

      Ptarmigan Bell Pottinger, the Leeds-based arm of the UK’s number one communications consultancy, the Bell Pottinger Group, has been appointed by STRI (Sports Turf Research Institute) to raise awareness of its market leading services, including its management of all World Cup pitches and training facilities.STRI is a world leader in...

    • Wednesday, 09 June 2010

      SomeOne is appointed to rebrand the largest maritime museum in the world

      Following a competitive pitch and public tender, London branding agency SomeOne has won the project to rebrand the largest maritime museum in the world, the National Maritime Museum (NMM) which encompasses the Royal Observatory Greenwich, The Peter Harrison Planetarium and the Queens House. ‘No other organisation has the richness of the...

    • Tuesday, 08 June 2010

      Chime’s Research & Engagement Division appoints new Research Director

      The Research & Engagement Division of Chime plc today announced another senior appointment. Gill Rumbold (Née Solly), formerly Board Director and Deputy MD of Pegram Walters (UK), Global CU Director at Quest International and currently Head of Global CMR and Marketing for Research & Technology at Givaudan, will be joining...