The Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014 organising committee has appointed Smarts to help aid the communications teams through out the rest of the year.

Following a three-way-pitch, the Glasgow and Edinburgh based PR agency has been tasked with working with the communications divisions, especially Glasgow 2014 ltd on inputting creative ideas from July until December.

A spokesperson for Glasgow 2014, explained: “We are all fairly new on the communications side, so while the teams are working to get to know the company and learn the ropes, the usual stuff that is done when entering a new job, they will work with us, mainly to input creative ideas and produce protocols and processes across the partnership.”

Meanwhile, it is understood that Glasgow 2014 has drawn up a shortlist of 10-12 agencies for the next stage of its search for a design agency to create the official logo, but is in the process of informing successful agencies as to their status in the process.

The tender process initially attracted 66 submissions, which included 33 agencies from Scotland.

Chemistry sessions will begin next week.