Roger Fennings

Roger Fennings, Managing Director of Intermarkets Public Relations has announced a number of staff promotions and new appointments.

Bashar Al Kadhi

In current staff promotions, Bashar Al Kadhi is named Senior Account Director.

Fakher Daghestani

Fakher Daghestani is promoted to Account Manager.

Sue Nigoghossian

In new appointments, Melanie Gill joins Intermarkets Public Relations as Account Director. She joins the company from Total communications. Sue Nigoghossian is appointed as Account Executive. She was formerly with IPR.

In an earlier appointment, Nelly Abd-El Hamid joins Intermarkets as PR assistant.

Since its foundation five years ago as part of the Intermarkets group, Intermarkets Public Relations, names among its clients BP, Coca-Cola, Motorola, Nissan, Polaroid, TAG Heuer, Visa International and 3M.

Intermarkets Public Relations is the exclusive Middle eastern affiliate of Burson-Marsteller, one of the world’s leading international public relations consultancies.

Originally published in ArabAd, July 1997

Picture shows from left Ramzi Raad, Intermarkets Group Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer; Reg Lascaris TBWA Regional Director, Africa, Middle East, and Eastern Europe; Abdullah S. Al-Jehani, Saudi Arabian Airlines - Vice President Advertising and Marketing Programmes; Prince Bandar Bin Saud Bin Khalid Al-Saud, Chairman of Ailamia /Intermarkets Public Relations; and Yarub A. Balkhair, Saudi Arabian Airlines General Manager Public Relations and Editor-in-Chief of "Ahlan Wa Sahlan" magazine

After an exhaustive review which included presentations from six of the most qualified advertising agencies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian Airlines re-appointed Intermarkets Advertising to handle its worldwide marketing communications account in partnership with its international associates TBWA and its PR consultancy Ailamiah/lntermarkets Public Relations together with its international associates Burson Marsteller.
In his statement on the appointment, Abdullah S. Al-Jehani, Saudi Arabian Airlines Vice President Advertising and Marketing Programmes said:

“… after careful evaluation of the six presentations, it became obvious that Intermarkets with its established multi- disciplined communications set-up and its world renowned associates offered the full mix of creative excellence, strategic planning skills coupled with the product know how that would serve the Airline best in the long term.”

Erwin Guerrovich Chairman and CEO of the Intermarkets Group commented on the appointment saying: “We are delighted with the added responsibilities and look forward to continuing our close partnership with Saudi Arabian Airlines expanding our task of helping in building the unique position of our client as a world class airline with a distinctive Saudi character – not to the travelling public in the Middle East only – but all around the world.”
Originally published in ArabAd, October 1998