Morrow Communications is on the lookout for more fresh talent....

If you’re genuinely interested in current affairs and the world of business, you really understand news and the media, and you’re passionate about all aspects of marketing & digital communications, we want to hear from you.

Professionalism, intuition, creativity, excellent written and verbal communication skills, energy, motivation and the ability to stand out while also being a true team player are all prerequisites. 

Our clients span every sector and specialism. From the fast paced world of retail to the top names in agri-food production: from those delivering the latest technologies to the most recent developments in energy, renewables and the environment - we represent some of the top companies, organisations and brands. We also cross all boundaries, working for clients throughout Ireland, GB and beyond.

If you have at least one year’s relevant communications experience under your belt and you honestly believe you have something special to offer, we’d be keen to hear from you.

Simply send your up-to-date CV and, to illustrate your creativity, in 150 words or less, explain why you deserve to be on our ‘must see’ list.

All responses should be sent to mail@morrowcommunications.com by Friday 16 May 2014. 

Morrow Communications on shortlist for UK CIPR Excellence Awards 2014

We're delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for a 2014 Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Excellence Award - the public relations profession’s most prestigious annual awards scheme for the whole of the UK.

We are on the shortlist for the Low Budget category for our submission - ‘From Famine to Feast – the Resurrection of the Irish ‘Lumper’ Potato’ - and made the cut from approximately 700 awards entries received from around the globe!

The entry, which focuses on a media relations campaign conducted on behalf of our client Glens of Antrim Potatoes, follows the story of the reintroduction of the ‘Lumper’ to the market – a famous potato which had not been commercially cultivated since the Irish Famine of the 1840s.

Two members of the PR team, Harriet Turtle and Seona McGrath, have since been put through their paces taking part in a face-to-face interview with a team of expert judges in London this week, before the winners are finally chosen and announced at the CIPR Excellence Awards black tie dinner at Old Billingsgate, London on Tuesday 17th June 2014.

Fingers crossed for the final result!

 

Football fever hits Morrows!

Morrow Communications has really kicked it into the back of the net with not one but two clients ‘stepping onto the pitch’ and making ‘football associations’ this week (we’re really putting the ‘pun’ in ‘pundit’ here). 
We kicked off the week with Moy Park announcing its status as an Official World Cup™ sponsor and finished off with Dale Farm revealing their sponsorship of the Milk Cup.

The Moy Park team at Morrows will be embracing all things Brazilian this summer (carnivals, samba lessons etc. we assume) to help activate Moy Park’s sponsorship of The FIFA World Cup™. The Moy Park brand will be beamed to millions of viewers across the globe on pitch perimeter boards during matches - including those involving England, France, the Netherlands and Spain to name just a few. Moy Park will be supporting the sponsorship with a comprehensive advertising, promotional and marketing campaign. What’s more, Moy Park will be launching an on-pack promotion that will give one lucky shopper the chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime trip for two to the FIFA World Cup™ semi-finals in Brazil.

In our second soccer scoop, Northern Ireland’s largest dairy company, Dale Farm, has stepped in as lead sponsor of Northern Ireland's major international youth football tournament – now known as the 'Dale Farm Milk Cup.' The renowned competition has seen famous players such as Ryan Giggs, David Beckham and Paul Scholes compete on NI pitches at the start of their careers. First played in 1983, the tournament has attracted a wide range of entries from local county sides to leading English and Scottish premier league clubs and international teams such as Russia, China and Mexico. Following a highly successful media launch to announce the sponsorship, the wheels are well and truly in motion for the rest of the competition!

In preparation for these high profile sponsorships, Team Morrow will be getting into the spirit by practising our football chants and keepie-ups and challenging our office park neighbours to a 5-a-side tournament (suit jackets for goalposts). Keep an eye on the headlines over the coming months as the team at Morrows work with Dale Farm and Moy Park to activate both super soccer sponsorships!

Aisle be Yours...

On this grey and miserable Monday morning, we all need a little pick me up. So here's a story we fell in love with last week, as we helped our client Asda celebrate Valentine's Day ...

Aisle be Yours…

“The Secret of a happy marriage- Respect and Genuine Love”

Having launched a search to find the longest married couple in the local area, Asda Coleraine was delighted to welcome Robert and Margaret, known as Ivy, Kirkpatrick into the store to tell their story. 

As regular customers in Asda Coleraine, every Tuesday since it opened in 2005, Robert and Ivy are well known to the store’s colleagues who delighted in celebrating their love with gifts including flowers, champagne and a shopping voucher. 

Married for 62 years, and having met several years before that, Robert and Ivy have lived in the centre of Coleraine since the 1960s. However, their love story began in London, when Robert spotted Ivy working in the Maypole Grocery Store.

“My brother also worked in the store,” said Robert, “so I asked him to find out if she liked the look of me and if she was interested in a date. Luckily she was, and we had our first date at the local picture house.”  

The romance went on to blossom from that moment and today the diamond couple have nine children, 25 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.  Robert says, “We have a great system – Ivy does all the birthday cards and presents, and I look after Christmas!”

The couple describe their greatest adventure as an exciting trip to California around 15 years ago. Staying with friends they took in the sights around Los Angeles, San Diego and Palm Springs describing it as “a wonderful trip they’ll never forget.”

The couple were invited into Asda Coleraine on Valentine’s Day to receive their gifts from general store manager Roy Warke and community life champion Sheila Palmer. On receiving the news from Asda that they had been recognised as Coleraine’s longest married couple, Robert said he was “delighted and it was a lovely surprise.”

Roy Warke said, “It’s been wonderful to celebrate Valentine’s Day with Robert and Ivy as their love truly has stood the test of time. As regular customers to the store we’re all inspired by their story, and it’s particularly fantastic, and fitting, to hear that they met in a grocery store! We wish the couple many more happy years together.”

Finally, on the secret of such a long and happy marriage, Robert had a simple message saying, “It’s all based around respect. Respect and genuine love.” 

Morrow Goes POP!

Morrow Communications’ resident pop svengali, Marty Byrne was back in his element this week when working behind the scenes at Cool FM’s annual Jingle Ball pop party. The 11 act concert saw over 8,000 screaming fans pack the Odyssey Arena for a chart topping line-up featuring the likes of McFly, Shane Filan, Rebecca Ferguson and Union J.

Marty was in charge of the backstage media room, as well as negotiating media partnerships, artist liaison for press interviews and dealing with all press enquiries in the run up to the event. The media room saw Northern Ireland’s top bloggers, showbiz reporters and press photographers meeting the acts for a round of quick-fire questions and photos just before they went on stage.

Jingle Ball 2013 was a huge success, with tickets for the 2014 gig already available to purchase and the event quickly establishing itself as Northern Ireland's top pop event of the year.

Speaking of the experience, Marty described his work on Jingle Ball 2013 as putting the ‘fun’ into ‘a fundamentally long day’ and confirmed he will now be adding “ability to look unimpressed in the face of X-Factor finalists,” “hobnobbing with Matt Cardle” and “blushing in the presence of Harry Judd” to his Linked-In profile.

For more pics of the backstage area and all the on stage antics, check out www.coolfm.co.uk

Tree Time...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas down at Morrows... Can you beat our speedy elves?

Sowing Seeds for Movember

Movember has been on everyone's lips this month and we have been delighted to have supported our new client Germinal Holdings Ltd on their fantastic campaigns to support the Movember Charity, which aims to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and testicular cancer.

Here in Northern Ireland, seed specialist Joseph Morton Ltd had one message for local farmers this autumn - size does in fact matter - when it comes to moustaches at least! Hoping to inspire local farmers to support the charity, the company has cultivated an impressive 120m long grass moustache in a Co. Londonderry field.

The field, which belongs to a Ballykelly farmer, contains an Aber High Sugar Grass and red clover mix which was shaped into a giant version of the Movember moustache logo using an agricultural mower by Morton’s North West Technical Sales Representative, William McCollum.

As well as raising awareness of men’s health issues and fundraising amongst staff, Morton’s is calling on local farmers to grow their own moustache during November, and is offering a prize of £500 worth of Morton’s products for the most impressive ‘mo’. Morton’s will also donate £500 to the Movember charity on the winner’s behalf. Entrants are invited to take pictures of their ‘before’ and ‘after’ facial hair at the start and end of November and send them to info@josephmorton.co.uk

Meanwhile British Seed Houses, also owned by Banbridge based Germinal Holdings, has also gone big to show its support for Movember by giving the world famous Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset a grass moustache.

The huge mo added a rakish look to the imposing 180 ft tall landmark grown from British Seed Houses’ Grade A grass seed. The ancient naked giant is a protected site owned by the National Trust, which gave special permission to allow him to sport a mo for the first time. It is fair to say that helping to promote these campaigns has been a 'Mo'st enjoyable experience !

Action Stations for Nature

We have been delighted to have supported the East Border Region’s Action for Biodiversity Project, which is part funded by the European Union’s INTERREG IVA Programme. The project is aimed at helping create a richer and more diverse environment in the East Border Region of the island of Ireland, through raising awareness of biodiversity and the need to protect it – and has supported over 80 local conservation projects over the past three years.



Campaigns delivered have included the 'Give an Hour to Nature' campaign coinciding with the clocks going back at the end of October as well as the development and promotion of a 'Winter Wonderland’ online nature guide, based on public nominations of the top spots for enjoying nature in the winter months received through facebook at www.facebook.com/actionforbiodiversity .