R&R Teamwork announces leadership change

Eleanor Standen has been named managing director of R&R Teamwork, taking the reins from founders Rupert Ponsonby and Rosamund Barton as the food and drink PR agency celebrates its 30th vintage. The change means that Ponsonby and Barton, who founded the agency in 1995, will be moving on from their current roles. While Barton will remain in the business as associate director, Ponsonby will be focusing his efforts on Mr Trotter's, the pork scratchings brand he co-founded. Over its three decades, R&R Teamwork has accrued a number of clients, with the current roster including the likes of Champagne Taittinger, Spain's CVNE, Gosnells of London and Viñedo Chadwick in Chile. "We've enjoyed nearly thirty years of being marinated in delicious wines, spirits and beers and in the PR and marketing of them. We’re lucky to work for an array of stellar clients - past and present - who appoint us to help them market their brands in so many colourful ways," commented Barton. "Although we are passing the baton to Eleanor, I am looking forward to being an employee at R&R." "Rupert, in contrast, is moving on - or maybe pigging things up - with his Mr Trotter's pork crackling business," she continued. "Rupert also wants to delve deeper into building a rural education scheme, aiming to introduce a wide range of ages and skill sets to horticulture, agriculture and silviculture in Northern Oxfordshire. As well as becoming managing director, Standen, who has been with the company for almost two decades, is also the new owner of R&R Teamwork. Standen paid tribute to her former bosses: "Working with Rosamund and Rupert for all these years has been a wonderful experience, and I am very excited to be entrusted with the next chapter of R&R. We have a great team and brilliant clients, and I’m looking forward to the future – I am certain that we will make Rosamund and Rupert proud!"