JUMP For Healthcare

Newcastle-based brand communications company JUMP has designed a new website for Synergy Healthcare.
 
JUMP was originally commissioned to give Synergy, one of the largest physiotherapy practices in the North East of England, a brand overhaul as well as designing their corporate literature, website and Content Management System.

R&B Group Win National Awards Contract

R&B Group have announced that they will be working with long-standing client the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) to produce a series of 11 awards presentations throughout the United Kingdom. Eight years ago R&B Group provided their technical support for the Renaissance Awards, the RICS’s flagship celebration of building developments in the North-East.  Held in the banqueting suite of Newcastle’s Civic Centre, this gala dinner and awards was quickly recognised as one of the best in the country and it wasn’t long before the company were invited to work on the equivalent events in the neighbouring regions of Yorkshire & Humber and the North West.

Print Futures Awards Open For Entries

The Print Futures Awards are open for entries, offering up to £1,500 for studying or training.

The Print Futures Awards were launched in 2003 to help people fund any costs associated with a relevant training course in printing, publishing or the graphic arts.
Sponsored by The Printing Charity, Unite the Union, and The British Printing Industries Federation (BPIF), the awards are open to people who:

• are aged between 16 and 30 years
• resident in the UK
• are already working in printing, publishing or the graphic arts and would like to undertake short courses or training sessions to develop their skills
• intend studying or are already studying for a job in printing, publishing or the graphic arts in the UK 

Lucky Fan Meets Heavyweight

Chis Bell (left) with Sugar Ray Leonard

Local printing heavyweight, PPD's Chris Bell, took time out from his busy schedule to greet fan Sugar Ray Leonard, recently.

Chris joked: "I cuda knocked sugar out no botha!!!"

Mr Leonard, a retired boxer from Pacific Palisades, California was said to be "thrilled".

Karol Marketing Group Appoints New Account Manager

Laura Kingston joins the Newcastle team

Laura Kingston

PR and marketing agency Karol Marketing Group, has expanded its team with the appointment of a new account manager at its Newcastle office. 

Laura Kingston joins the firm with five years’ experience in the industry, and will be overseeing the management of key clients following the company’s significant growth in 2012. 

Guerilla Give Alnwick Castle The Big Screen Treatment

Guerilla have announced that they've been appointed by the historical landmark and iconic movie setting, Alnwick Castle, as its creative agency for 2013 and their first campaign is now live across the North East.

The advertising is styled like a movie poster, capitalising on Alnwick Castle's use as a location for the Harry Potter films, among other big screen appearances.

How clients are de-skilling the UK advertising industry – Guardian

An article on the Guardian website today addresses a topic that's probably familiar to many of our readers – advertising agencies losing skilled, experienced staff due to financial pressures.

I met up with a former boss of mine recently, from back in the day when I first started working in advertising. He was suggesting to me that clients (meaning marketing people) are now "getting the agencies they deserve". And not in a good way. 

His thesis was that marketing organisations have spent the last decade squeezing creative agency fee income and margins, a trend accelerated by the rise in influence of procurement departments in such negotiations. This had achieved an undesirable and unwanted outcome; over time agencies had become de-skilled, and consequently less useful.