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]
Having worked her way up through various PR companies including Tony Meehan Associates, PR Consultants, Scotland and TMA Communications,[2] Flora Martin set up and managed one of the most successful PR businesses in Scotland – Flora Martin PR – which she sold to Citigate Communications in 1996 and merged with Dunseath Citigate (and subsequently bought by Incepta in 1997). With clients from Asda to the Bank of Scotland, Martin continued to build the business into a £5m turnover company through a programme of expansion and acquisition. She prompted and oversaw the c.£2 million merger with Smarts Advertising & Design to form Citigate Smarts in 2000, until she left, eventually stepping down as boss of Glasgow and Edinburgh offices in September 2004 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.[3]
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
- ↑ John-Pierre Joyce ‘The iron lady of Glasgow - It would take a brave heart to consider crossing swords with Flora Martin’ PR Week 3 May, 1996
- ↑ All Media Scotland Press Release http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/2226/28012008/Glasgow_Next_Stop_for_Platform_PR (accessed 4 April 2008)
