By Stephen Foster on June 12, 2012
So it’s the eagerly-awaited gunfight at the Four Seasons Hotel in Dublin tomorrow, hardly Dodge City but the leafy Ballsbridge suburb in the Irish capital has probably also seen a few disagreements in its time. And at 12pm WPP founder and CEO Sir Martin Sorrell will confront his revolting shareholders at WPP’s AGM, unless chairman [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged agm, Bob Dudley, BP, dublin, four seasons hotel, John O'Keefe, Phil Lader, shareholder revolt, Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP, £13m pay deal
By Stephen Foster on January 7, 2011
Timing is (also) all in the wacky world of corporate communications (see Morrisons story) and BG’s head of government affairs Peter Henshaw may demonstrate just that as he moves into the BP communications hot seat formerly occupied by unfortunate former Financial Times editor Andrew Gowers. Gowers, you may recall left the relatively calm pastures of [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andrew Gowers, bg, Bob Dudley, BP, british gas, centrica, deepwater horizon oil spill, Peter, Peter Henshaw, tnk-bp, Tony Hayward
By Stephen Foster on December 6, 2010
Embattled oil company BP has registered as a trademark the phrase ‘Be Proud Join In’ in what is thought to be its slogan for the 2012 London Olympics. The company has been in the political and every other doghouse since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that led to the departure [...]
Posted in Clients, Creative, News, PR | Tagged Andrew Gowers, be proud join in, beyond petroleum, Bob Dudley, BP, deepwater horizon, london 2012 olympics, Lord Browne, Tony Hayward
By Stephen Foster on December 3, 2010
Yes it’s hardly a household name but Wimm-Bill-Dann controls 30 per cent of the Russian fruit juice and dairy products market, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and operates in ten countries. And PepsiCo has decided to shell out $5.4bn, the biggest purchase of a Russian company by an outsider to date, to [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, News, Politics | Tagged Bob Dudley, bp.tnk, danone, fsb, j7 fruit juice, PepsiCo, Vladimir Putin, wimm-bill-dann, world cup 2018
By Stephen Foster on October 7, 2010
PR has proved to be something of a vale of tears for former Financial Times editor Andrew Gowers. First he joined Lehman Brothers shortly before the US investment bank imploded in 2008 and then he took up the reins as head of media at BP on the eve of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster [...]
Posted in News, PR | Tagged Andrew Gowers, Anji Hunter, Bob Dudley, BP, David Bickerton, Peter Mandelson, PR Week
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