Briefs

Ratcliffe Fowler Design has created merchandising for Pepe Jeans. The Leicester consultancy is also to design all Pepe’s exhibitions and showrooms in the UK and Ireland.

United Designers is the lead consultancy of a 10m refurbishment and relaunch of the Londonderry Hotel on London’s Park Lane. The 159-bedroom hotel is being renamed The Metropolitan. Sister company United Publicity is designing the hotel’s graphics and identity.

London retail specialist Pennington Robson continues its work for the Finnish department store group OY Stockmann with a redesign of the ground-floor household departments of Stockmann’s store in Tampere, Finland’s third largest city.

Hildebrand Design has created a booklet for the Corporation of London on the Freedom of the City of London.

Jugatsu and Prime Design have designed a catalogue for dance music distribution company Prime Distribution.

US network CNBC is launching its live 24-hour business TV channel in Europe in March to seven million cable and satellite homes. Promotional literature, direct mail and above-the- line design work is by Pritchards Creative Communications in Cheltenham.

York exhibition consultancy Ideas has appointed Michael Wright as director, following the retirement of David Senior. Wright spent 11 years working at Madame Tussaud’s.