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ESEF; what it is, the initial impact and the future
June 3, 2019
Last week it became official that annual reports with fiscal years beginning on or after 1st January 2020 will need to be prepared in the ESEF format. But what is ESEF, how will this impact companies and their approach to reporting? ESEF The European Single Electron Format for annual reports - this new regulation will affect all listed businesses in the EU including FTSE100, 250 and Small Cap indices. AIM list companies will not be...
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Looking ahead at the Conservative Leadership Contest
May 31, 2019
With the starting-gun fired, as many as 15 potential leadership candidates are under starter’s orders and expected to mount a leadership challenge for Theresa May’s crown, now that her resignation date has been announced for 7th June. Conservative MPs proudly consider themselves the most sophisticated electorate in the world – combining the cunning of Machiavelli with the hard-headed pragmatism of the most electorally successful political party in Western Europe. With such a crowded field, set...
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Seeing the Bigger Picture – Issue Two of We Are All Investors
May 15, 2019
Our next issue of We Are All Investors is now available. We Are All Investors combines thought leadership from across our agency discussing the components needed to succeed in investor relations. 'Seeing the bigger picture', our second issue continues to cover some of the most topics in currently, including ESG and impact investing, bringing the fun back into internal communications, the power of storytelling in annual reports and more. If you'd like to see how...
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TechMunch: What we’ve learned about earned
May 9, 2019
They say you never forget your first – piece of coverage that is. Whatever your route into PR was, it’s likely one of the first tasks you were ever set was a media-relations one. Building a media list. Writing a pitch. Selling in a press release. Compiling a coverage report. And despite the rise of social media, digital platforms, user-generated content, influencers and even the notion of fake news, for me there’s still an unmistakable...
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TechMunch: Proving how effective communications drives B2B technology sales
May 2, 2019
Whether you’re working in retail, healthcare, property or sports, technology plays a crucial role in producing, delivering and marketing your products and services. The hardware and software that a business uses plays a key role in determining future success, and this is upping the ante for businesses looking to technology to give them the edge. For B2B marketers and communications professionals this presents big opportunities, but new challenges too. Faced with winner-takes-all market dynamics, today’s...
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How effective communications impacts the B2B technology sales funnel
May 1, 2019
Whether you’re working in retail, healthcare, property or sports, technology plays a crucial role in producing, delivering and marketing your products and services. The hardware and software that a business uses plays a key role in determining future success, and this is upping the ante for businesses looking to technology to give them the edge. Faced with winner-takes-all market dynamics, communications functions today are under significant pressure from the C-Suite to prove how they help...
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Uncharted Waters: Unlocking the Latin American Opportunity
April 2, 2019
Over the past 20 years we have witnessed a series of efforts by British politicians to reinvigorate the once great trade and diplomatic relationship between the UK and the countries in Latin America. But even with repeated attempts to generate bilateral investment, partner on foreign policy and collaborate on development and aid, has anything actually changed? In 2010, the then-Foreign Secretary William Hague delivered a speech at Canning House designed to kick off a new...
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A new era of investor activism, a force for change?
March 19, 2019
Why ESG is the next big thing for shareholder engagement Investor activism is nothing new by any stretch of the imagination, having been personified by the siege antics of 1980s Wall Street caricatures. However, since then, there is growing evidence that shareholder activism has achieved acceptance as a legitimate investment strategy. For years, corporate boards and management have faced the daunting challenge of responding to and fending off threats from shareholder activists. Typically, this describes...
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Reputation in an age of outrage
March 15, 2019
Reputation is increasingly an online phenomenon. That’s not to say reputation is only relevant online, or that it’s wholly built and destroyed online, but rather that it’s now largely mediated online. By this I mean that the choice of focus, the framing and speed of issues and the casting of villains and heroes happens first online, before being hashed out in newspapers, on broadcast and in politics. This is because the media agenda, and subsequently...
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A Summary of the 2019 Spring Statement
March 13, 2019
This lunchtime, Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his Spring Statement in the Commons. His speech pinpointed the Government’s achievements on growth and jobs while warning about the “cloud of uncertainty” following last night’s Brexit vote, which he said could jeopardise the UK’s economic recovery and exhaust its cash reserves for public services. In summary: Hammond argued that the economy had “defied expectations” and was forecast to grow 1.2% in 2019 – lower than the 1.6%...