Flora Martin
With a background in the military side of the Civil Service - working at the Fleet Air Arm base near Perth and Faslane MoD base at Helensburgh - Flora Martin is now considered to be one of Scotland's PR gurus.[1]
Flora Martin owned and managed one of the most successful PR businesses in Scotland – Flora Martin PR – which she sold to Citigate Communications in 1996, which was subsequently bought by Incepta in 1997. Martin prompted and oversaw the c.£2 million merger with Smarts Advertising & Design in 2000. She continued to build the business into a £5m turnover company through a programme of expansion and acquisition until she left in September 2004, stepping down as boss of Citigate Smarts Glasgow and Edinburgh offices to work as an independent consultant. The following year she was awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award by the Chartered Institute for Public Relations (CIPR) Scotland, of which she is a fellow.
In 2007, Flora Martin became chair of Platform PR. On 28 January 2008, it was announced that Flora Martin would head the new Glasgow office of the company which has offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Beauly.[2]
Also in 2007, Flora Martin was appointed as a Director of Culture and Sport Glasgow (Trading) CIC, the business arm of Culture and Sport Glasgow, where her PR skills will no doubt prove invaluable to the broader strategies around branding and tourism being pursued in Glasgow. See Media:Glasgow_Scotland_with_style_-_The_City_Brand_SEPTE.pdf
Notes
- ↑ Ron Clark ‘Spreading the PR message; Flora Martin The leap from Civil Service to one of Scotland's leading media gurus is a big one’ The Herald 10 May, 2003
- ↑ All Media Scotland Press Release http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/2226/28012008/Glasgow_Next_Stop_for_Platform_PR (accessed 4 April 2008)
