Meet the newest member of the Headline team

The Headline team is pleased to introduce its newest recruit, junior account executive Laura Townsend, who joined at the beginning of February.
Having recently graduated from Birmingham City University with a BA honours degree in English Literature and Language, Laura has already gained a wealth of experience in both PR and journalism through various internships whilst [...]

Do you have the PR X Factor?

So Frankie Cocozza has been kicked off the X Factor and last weekend saw one of the hotly tipped favourites, Kitty, also meet her musical end on the show. Despite what she may have thought, the X was apparently missing from her factor.
So what is it that the public and judges on the show are [...]

Managing your reputation

Reputation, whether it is good or bad, needs to be managed. Companies and organisations are increasingly recognising the importance of brand management and corporate reputation to achieve business goals and stay one step ahead of the competition.
For companies, a good corporate reputation is built on trust, be that through the provision of good products, the [...]

A plumber’s tap…

Regular readers of our blog will have no doubt noticed that posts have been a little thin on the ground of late. This is because we have been putting our creative writing talents to good use on our clients. As the saying goes, “a plumber’s tap always drips”. Please check back soon for further blog [...]

Social media or social multi-tasking?

As a man, I’m not supposed to be able to multi-task. The art of doing two things at once is a skill that only the fairer sex can master, or so we’re lead to believe.
For years men have had to put up with the constant remarks and ridicule from our female friends on our apparent [...]

Headline hosts World Cup party

As the nation tuned in to watch England play Slovenia in the last group qualifier of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Headline Communications team got behind ‘the boys’ by hosting its own World Cup party. 
Blissfully unaware of the fate that was to befall England in the knock-out stages of the tournament, more [...]

Marketing goes undercover

Imagine you’re on the train home from work one evening and sitting opposite you are two people embroiled in a lengthy conversation about a recently published book they are both enjoying. You try not to listen but can’t help overhearing their enthusiastic comments about characters and plot lines. Out of curiosity, you glance at the [...]

MIPIM Blog, Day 4: Final day before saying au revoir

A lunch for Birmingham’s MIPIM contingent at the Restaurant Mandala on the beach was oversubscribed.
CBRE’s Ashley Hancox emerged from a ten hour “power nap” especially – he went to his hotel on Wednesday night for 40 winks and failed to wake up until Thursday morning. Must be the Lee Evans-look-alike’s new job, as regional head [...]

MIPIM Blog, Day 3

My day started on a serious note, with a heavyweight European Investment Briefing from the boys at CB Richard Ellis.
The very polished Nick Axford, head of the firm’s EMEA research team, said there is cause for optimism, as the investment market is picking up.
Apparently, retail property is being highly sought after across Europe, with shopping [...]

MIPIM Blog: Brum’s great and good descend on Cannes

The plane to Nice yesterday morning was packed with lots of male, middle-aged men. For a minute I thought I was on the wrong flight:  a try-before-you-buy timeshare trip, or a Saga golfing holiday charter perhaps.
But no, as Gary Taylor of Argent helpfully pointed out, here on BMI Baby Flight WW6529 was the great and good [...]