PR , Marketing and HR appointments: Golley Slater expands Leeds team and more

GOLLEY Slater Public Relations office in Leeds has strengthened its team with three appointments.

Nina Hands joins as a senior account manager, Laura Craggs joins as an account executive and Sarah Stafford has been promoted to senior account executive.

Ms Hands has five years PR experience, previously working at Leeds-based agency, Brahm.

Ms Craggs, who has recently graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University after completing her PR degree which included an industrial placement in the press office of McDonalds, will be working on accounts with clients including bakery retailer Greggs and solicitors Last Cawthra Feather.

Ms Stafford has been with Golley Slater for just over a year and has excelled in her role and is making a quick move up the career ladder.

Managing director, Gillian Northey says: “We are delighted to welcome Nina and Laura and they are both already proving themselves to be valuable new additions to the team.”

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THE European Marketing Agency (TEMA), based in Saltaire, has appointed a junior account executive to its client handling team.

William Mudd, who has dual nationality and is bi-lingual in French, joins from Metro Cash and Carry in France where he completed an apprenticeship as sales adviser and promotion coordinator in the wholesaler’s multimedia and computing department.

With a degree from the University of Lille in sales and international trade and marketing studies,Mr Mudd will manage TEMA’s export-focused client base.

His role as junior account executive will see him co-ordinating multilingual marketing and communications campaigns. He will also contribute to the development of marketing proposals and undertake strategic and practical planning.

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RETAIL and high value logistics provider, Brighouse-based Clipper Logistics Group has appointed Vanessa Hope, of British Land, to the role of marketing and business development manager.

Whilst at British Land, Ms Hope was tasked with taking the consolidation centre at Sheffield’s Meadowhall Centre, The ARC, from loss to profit.

Steve Parkin, chief executive of Clipper Logistics Group, said: “Escalating environmental pressures coupled with an increasingly challenging economic climate have stimulated increasing interest in consolidation centres. Our sustained success at The Arc, Meadowhall has set a benchmark for best practice. Vanessa’s client-side insight, network of contacts and in-depth understanding of the consolidation model will better enable Clipper to identify, approach and partner with organisations to increase efficiencies and profitability.”

Prior to British Land, Ms Hope was head of brand development at Rocom, one of the UK’s fastest growing telephone network and distributor companies, where she was responsible for fostering and managing relationships with the senior players of retail blue chips and large corporate companies.

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