If a whole heap of London-based BBC staff decide that they don’t fancy the move up to the infinitely more salubrious climes of the North West, then what is the broadcaster meant to do to fill all those imminent holes in the workforce?
After what seems like an eternity (to the How-Do hack that’s been chasing the story anyway, Ed) the North West Development Agency has released the names of the suppliers that will make up its event management panel for the next four years.
John Butters, a director of Bell Pottinger North, has confirmed to How-Do that his agency is no longer working with Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra, but has quashed a report saying that his team were ‘ditched’.
The Manchester office of digital outfit Reading Room has muscled in alongside a coterie of non-North West agencies to secure part of Leeds University’s new seven-figure design brief, How-Do can reveal.
Word reaches How-Do that MEN Media is looking to extend its online offering further with a new residential portal to compliment the early successes achieved by its Jobs Mine initiative. Insiders claim that this will be something akin to the industry-leading rightmove.co.uk, although specifically focused on the Greater Manchester area.
Glorious Creative has come through a three-way pitch to collect the advertising and design brief for Emap’s inaugural Media Festival, to be held in Manchester this November.
£15m of public sector and government campaigns are on offer for regional PR agencies as the COI (Central Office of Information) reviews its roster of agencies.
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