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July 2010 - Work is underway on a new behavioural change communications magazine for the Zambia Centre for Communications Programmes on gender, multiple concurrent partnerships and HIV.

June 15, 2010 - Netherlands conglomerate Philips stopped in Lusaka as part of its epic Cairo-to-Cape Town Roadshow to promote healthcare and lighting. Langmead & Baker Ltd co-ordinated media relations for the event.

June 2010 - The United Against Malaria video, produced by Langmead & Baker Ltd, is now on air throughout the country. View the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmILEHTAwko

April 25, 2010 - World Malaria Day was marked in Lusaka with a great United Against Malaria football match between a team of senior public figures, captained by Health Minister Hon. Kapembwa Simbao, and Chipolopolo Boys veterans.

January 15, 2010 - Shooting is complete for a United Against Malaria public service announcement for television broadcast. 

January 13, 2010 - Work is starting on the latest issue of The Insurance Magazine, the journal of the Insurance Institute of Zambia. 

November 12, 2009 - Work is in progress on the latest issue of Focus, the quarterly in-house magazine of Lafarge South East Africa.

October 25, 2009 - Coca-Cola Light Zambia Fashion Week, organised by Langmead & Baker Ltd, was declared a great success. Click here for pictures of the event.

July 29, 2009 - Three of the biggest business names in Zambia - Shoprite, Zambeef and Manzi - have joined the United Against Malaria team. Click here for press release.

July 6, 2009 - Minister of Health Hon. Kapembwa Simbao and national football team captain Chris Katongo have put their weight behind the United Against Malaria campaign, co-ordinated in Zambia by Langmead & Baker and MACEPA. Click here for press release.

June 15, 2009 - The United Against Malaria campaign is ready for roll out in Zambia, with Langmead & Baker working hard with local partner MACEPA to capture football fever to generate countrywide awareness of key malaria prevention and treatment messages.

April 2, 2009 - You and Your Relationship is the title of a new one million-circulation HIV/AIDS behavioural change publication being produced by Langmead & Baker for the Zambia Centre for Communication Programmes.

Feb 24, 2009 - Langmead & Baker and its partners have been officially selected by the Gates Foundation to implement a pan-African malaria awareness campaign associated with football. The consortium will be working with partners like the UN Foundation, Malaria No More, John’s Hopkins VOICES program, the One Campaign, Roll Back Malaria. The campaign will be working with footballers including David Beckham and Thierry Henry and with celebrities like Bono and Will Smith to raise awareness of malaria prevention in Africa ahead of the football in South Africa next year. This will be a multi-office, multi-sector programme involving healthcare, policy and sports marketing and will be led from New York working closely with London, Brussels and our African affiliates in seven key markets, including Zambia.  

Oct 1, 2008 – Langmead & Baker Ltd has joined forces with independent public relations companies across Africa to form the AfricaOne network. (www.africaonecom.com)

Sept 30, 2008 – The global economic crisis will extend to Africa , with significant implications for the continent’s business, warned Langmead & Baker Ltd director Dr Peter Langmead.

Sept 1, 2008 - Gillian Baker has been nominated for the Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting Initiative, a Netherlands-based organization providing a framework for “triple-bottom-line” sustainability reporting.  www.globalreporing.org