City & Corporate: The Week in the City
13 Jan 2012
Bobby Leach, former comms director at Vodafone, has joined Russian mobile telecoms firm VimpelCom as group director of comms.
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Jobs | Agency Showcase | Ad creativeThe gargantuan Facebook float and the Glencore-Xstrata merger look a huge fillip to the beleaguered international capital markets and related City PR agencies, though there remain few signs the effect will be more than temporary.
Bobby Leach, former comms director at Vodafone, has joined Russian mobile telecoms firm VimpelCom as group director of comms.
One of the few monoline bond insurers to survive the US sub-prime meltdown has hired PR support as it looks to regrow its European business.
Santander has handed a multi-disciplinary brief to Citigate Dewe Rogerson as it looks to step up its profile among British businesses.
Brunswick has held off StockWell Group to retain the National Grid's corporate and financial PR account.
Ed Brewster, group head of media relations at Prudential, has joined Chinese tech company Huawei as comms director. Brewster had been at Prudential for three years and was previously head of corp comms at Three UK.
Hudson Sandler has picked up a global electronics firm on the brink of entering the FTSE 250, as it emerges one of the agency's top practitioners has departed.
Citigate Dewe Rogerson, the Huntsworth-owned financial PR agency, has established a dedicated presence in Moscow.
Kreab Gavin Anderson has been appointed by Smart Metering Systems to advise on its financial and corporate comms and public affairs activities.
Columbus drafts in FWD; ReputationInc hires practice lead.