Brand Dutton and Brand Birmingham

The main thing that strikes you reading the Birmingham Post interview with Clive Dutton last week is that a top notch international PR agency is not needed to promote Brand Dutton.

Search for the rise of Google in Best Global Brand 2009

Interbrand has published its latest annual Best Global Brand.  Apart from some minor re-positioning of rankings, all of last year’s Top 10 have firmly clutched onto their top positions with Coca-Cola remaining top dog since 2001, but note the rise of that digital upstart, Google.

Warwick Reaches London’s skies

With London BT Tower the setting, the launch of The University of Warwick’s A Case for Support reached new levels last week.  Urban project managed the event, from concept through to speechwriting, branding and collateral.  For some photos of the evening, please click here.

Warwick Global Impact

The University of Warwick, one of Urban’s founding clients, is launching its A Case for Support at the top of the BT Tower in London on Thursday 14th May 2009.  The aim of the evening is to share the University’s vision to become firmly registered in the top 50 of world universities by 2015 and the opportunities for philathropic investment to help deal with some of the world’s most pressing problems.  Urban has been working closely with the University’s Development and Alumni Relations Office providing project managment.  Support included commissioning the opening video from Urban Associate Quench which you can see here.

BXL is Working

From today, BXL has succeeded Birmingham and Solihull Connexions and will deliver new approaches to preparing young people for work and engaging employers in education. Urban has been working closely with the BXL Executive Team by providing strategic communications support throughout the transition of statutory services to Birmingham and Solihull Councils and the development of the social enterprise company which retains responsibility for programmes including Education Business Links. For further information, please click here.