Category: Advertising & PR

Public relations practitioners in the Channel Islands will be able to undertake specialist public relations qualifications locally for the first time as from this autumn. International training provider the PR Academy will, in conjunction with the Channel Islands Group of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, be launching the CIPR Diploma in Jersey and Guernsey [...]

STEVE GILLMAN has stepped down as Guernsey managing director of Image Group after nearly 30 years with the company. Mr Gillman joined the company in its formative years, and has developed it into the Channel Islands’ only full service marketing communications agency. Now he has trimmed back his commitments at the company to three days [...]

Guernsey News, 12 May 2010 – LOCAL web design and digital marketing agency Indulge Media has added a new web developer to the team. Andrew Le Conte joined the agency that provides web design, digital marketing and other web related services, earlier this year. Graduating with a 1st class honours degree in Computer Games Design [...]

Guernsey News, 5 May 2010 – MARKETING spends are starting to increase as companies battle their way out of the recession, according to a Guernsey agency. The quarterly Bellwether survey of marketeers at 300 companies reveals that in the first quarter of 2010, more UK companies have raised marketing budgets, particularly in traditional media, than [...]

Guernsey News, 26 April 2010 – THREE new hires have been made by Orchard, the largest dedicated PR and events business in the Channel Islands. Mary Carberry has taken up the role of event manager and Catherine Le Prevost and Victoria Berryman have joined as PR account executives. Ms Carberry previously worked as a marketing [...]

Guernsey News, 4 December 2009 – LOCAL communications professionals will be heartened by the results of national research which shows that the PR industry is remaining resilient in the face of the recession. A report, undertaken in partnership with ComRes, surveyed some 2,000 Chartered Institute of Public Relations members and examines their views of the [...]

Guernsey News, 25 November 2009 – One of the Channel Island’s largest PR and Marketing Agencies, Direct Input, is delighted to announce the appointment of Chris Bougourd as an Account Manager to its Guernsey operation. He will be joining Marco Ciotti who is Direct Input’s PR Manager in Guernsey. Chris comes to Direct Input with [...]

Isle News, 26 October 2009 – A BOLD new look for Orchard was the focus of attention at a gathering of media and business people this week. Street buskers greeted party-goers heading for The Gallery, Mansell Street, to join staff from the company, which specialises in PR, event management and media training, for the launch [...]

Isle News, 22 October 2009 – SOCIAL media expert Andy Gibson enlightened 20 Channel Islands communications professionals at seminars organised in Guernsey and Jersey by the CI group of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. Mr Gibson is a social entrepreneur, campaigner and consultant specialising in the social uses of technology. He is the author [...]

Isle News, 14 October 2009 – Guernsey’s Health Department is being urged to assess the impact on small local shops, before pushing ahead with a ban on displaying tobacco.   The Channel Island Tobacco Importers and Manufacturers’ Association (CITIMA), which  includes tobacco manufacturing companies and local importers, has written to Health Minister Deputy Hunter Adam urging [...]