AUCKLAND, Today: PrintNZ, the body that represents New Zealand’s printers, packaging and visual communication industries, has joined a groundswell of concern over the Government’s proposed major revamp of the vocational education and training sector.

PARIS, Sunday: The Gerety Awards is launching a call-for-entries film by reaching back to American copywriter Frances Gerety – who in 1932 coined a phrase that has rung down undiminished through the decades – A Diamond Is Forever – for South Africa’s De Beers Mines (purloined in 1971 by 007/James Bond.

AUCKLAND, Today: Two global advertising heavyweights delivered an intimate conversation at the Axis speaker event in Auckland last night.

AUCKLAND, Today: Grey-Lynn-based shopper marketing agency Raydar has launched its latest campaign for Frucor Suntory V, called Twisted Tropics Pineapple Crush.

AUCKLAND, Today: “PR peeps – cancel your plan for the weekend,” says Alice Hsueh, comms advisor for Monday’s PRINZ Awards.

WELLINGTON, Today: The Commercial Communications Council has launched a Wellington extension of First Five Rungs (FFR) support group for millennials – and announced its first event (titled Your First Five Years).

AUCKLAND, Today: Colenso BBDO and film company Assembly have created an Amnesty International ‘audio badge’ – The Sound of Unity – for today’s International Women’s Day.

SINGAPORE, Thursday: With a view to simplifying its business and giving its leaders a greater degree of autonomy, Dentsu Aegis Network has put in place a new structure for the Asia-Pacific region, reducing the number of regional clusters from five to three.

SINGAPORE, Today: To celebrate International Women’s Day, Campaign Asia-Pacific has asked four of last year’s winners of its Women Leading Change Awards – including PHD NZ chairperson Louise Bond – how they felt the gender diversity agenda had moved on.

WASHINGTON, Today: In a scene likely worth millions of dollars in free advertising, President Donald Trump displayed a spread of burgers from some of the country’s biggest fast-food chains inside the State Dining Room of the White House yesterday as hungry football players looked on.