After 40 years in the hair and beauty industry, Jacki Wadeson, Managing Director at JWPR, has announced that she is retiring. JWPR has been purchased by Ross Witherden who, over the past three years working as Head of Communications and for the last year, leading the agency as Managing Director, has built on her four decades of success to take the business onwards and upwards. Ross is all set to rebrand the agency, changing its look and feel to reflect its new personality. Geri Greene will additionally continue in her role at the company.

Jacki comments: "I sincerely wish Ross every success as he makes his own mark and I am so pleased my 40 years of work is being handed over to such capable hands. Ross is now at the helm of an agency with an incredibly strong portfolio of over 24 clients across the hair, beauty, wellbeing and lifestyle spectrum. I have been incredibly lucky to have spent so long doing what I love and it’s hard to summarise milestones. Looking after the PR and marketing of leading product companies including Aveda, Batiste, Darphin, Denman, La Biosthetique and Sothys certainly count, as does developing and propelling the careers of many award-winning hairdressers – Trevor Sorbie, Angelo Seminara, Antoinette Beenders and Guy Kremer – to name just a handful. Other milestones include my legacies of the conception and seven years’ development of the British Hairdressing Awards along with researching and writing 50 books – now published worldwide. 

So I take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for giving me so much help and support for the past forty years, confident you will deliver the same to Ross, as he takes over the reins of the company to take it to new dizzying heights. Farewell and fondest from Jacki x".

If you wish to contact Jacki on her personal e-mail, you can do so here.

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Ross Witherden in 'PR contacts'