Smoking Gun PR has today announced the appointment of Victoria Barker as associate director.

Starting next month, Barker will join the senior management team alongside husband and wife team Rick and Vanessa Guttridge.

Rick Guttridge, MD, said: “Despite the ongoing uncertainty in the wider economic market, we have thankfully continued to identify businesses looking for quality PR support and discovered a healthy pipeline of leads.

On the back of this ‘purple patch’ we have taken the opportunity to invest in the office infrastructure and by bringing new talent into the business at manager and director level with a long term growth strategy and career progression plan in place for the team.

“We’re very much looking forward to welcoming Victoria into the business and are sure she will have as positive an impact on our team and work over the coming years as our other hires have.”