Work

Work that moves the business forward.

Some of our most recent work

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Supporting fundraisingSport

Supporting an eight-figure fundraising for a global triathlon series

Shaping the story and market engagement behind the raise, and building the company’s profile with corporate and sports business media including the FT, Bloomberg, Reuters, City AM and SportBusiness. We also used the chief executive’s and the company’s LinkedIn networks to promote the business and support the fundraising story.

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Repositioning for the next chapterEnergy

Repositioning a major LNG producer for its next chapter

Senior counsel through a rebrand, a new corporate story and a change of chief executive, giving the company one clear voice with government, investors, media and its own people, and building the in-house team’s capability and standing across the business, including a communications support programme for the C-suite.

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Building a founder’s voiceRecruitment and employment

Making a recruitment entrepreneur’s voice count in the national jobs debate

Positioning a founder, investor and non-executive as a commercially serious voice on the jobs market and employment law, with a steady programme of commentary, media and LinkedIn that leads with evidence rather than headlines, so his views reach the employers, policymakers and investors he wants to influence.

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Building leadership profilesProfessional services

A managing partner’s profile in support of his firm’s strategy

For a high-profile international law firm, we built the managing partner’s personal brand first, then developed and launched a LinkedIn programme that spoke to the firm’s own people about its five-year strategy and showed new and existing clients the thinking and services behind it.

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Defining propositionsBusiness services

Defining what a growing consultancy offers, and to whom

Helping the founders define who they are, how they work and the value they deliver, and building the narrative around it, rolled out across their own channels, marketing and new business activity to support growth.

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Shaping investor storiesTechnology

Shaping an AI recruitment start-up’s story for investors

We helped shape and write the narrative for the proposition and the investor memorandum, so the founders could engage investors and raise capital. We were also a sounding board for the founders, helping shape the proposition and go-to-market strategy, and devised creative campaigns to make the business distinctive in a crowded market.

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Supporting fast growthDefence technology

Building the profile of a fast-scaling autonomous systems company

Integrated communications through its growth and funding rounds, including a Series B, with counsel to the chief executive and leadership team, liaison with internal and external stakeholders, event support, and live issues and crisis management through critical periods. Investors, customers and partners see a business proven in the field and built to scale.

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Engaging employeesIndustrial

Launching a sustainability strategy across a listed global distributor

Helping staff across the business understand the new strategy and their part in delivering it, with the chief executive leading from the front.

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Raising international profileScience and innovation

Taking a leading African science prize to UK audiences

A refreshed visual identity, and events in London and Sheffield that brought the prize, its winners and its sponsor to British scientists, universities, business and media, strengthening its international standing and helping it attract a record number of entries.

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More of our work

Trusted by some of the world’s best businesses, from global champions to niche market leaders, and by international NGOs, industry bodies and individuals.

Campaigning for understandingFinancial markets

Building understanding of a low-profile but vital financial sector

Engaging regulators, policymakers, partners and investors to build understanding and appreciation of market-makers, who support much of Europe’s capital markets and financial services, and strengthening the sector’s standing with them.

Managing issues and crisisConsumer electronics

Protecting a major appliance brand through a product safety crisis

Steering the company through inquests, civil and criminal proceedings and scrutiny from local, national, trade and international print and broadcast media, while leading industry efforts to improve product recalls and registration.

Activating sponsorshipSport

Launching a shirt sponsorship with FC Barcelona

Announced on the pitch at the Camp Nou, working hand in hand with the club and our client, then taken internationally across sectors, countries and audiences, so staff, customers, partners and media heard one story.

Communicating corporate dealsConsumer goods

Announcing a $15bn deal that created a new European drinks business

Months of preparation before the deal closed: the new company’s story, the announcement and the materials behind it, and a plan for every audience. Then a Day One rollout across six countries, with briefings for business and trade media, an international press programme and coordinated communication to 13,000 staff, so the new company arrived with one voice for investors, media and its own people.

Managing issues onlineAgribusiness

Defending a global agribusiness in a polarised debate

Protecting its standing on pesticides and GM across its global channels, including when war hit its operations in Ukraine. Working alongside other consultancies and senior in-house communications and business leaders to protect and extend the corporate and commercial brand strategy, through product launches, the launch of new business divisions, and the creation of an in-house social media function across four business units worldwide.

Building employer brandsFinancial services

Establishing a global trading firm as an employer of choice

Researching and building its employee value proposition, then taking it to graduates and experienced hires in Sydney and London, positioning the firm as a mature, trusted business where talented, ambitious people can thrive.

Sharpening an international brandUnited Nations

Strengthening a UN agency’s standing with its partners

Brand strategy to raise the agency’s visibility and build political and financial support among parliamentarians, donors and civil society.

Protecting reputationCulture

Protecting a former world leader’s international reputation

A nine-month campaign across Moscow, Berlin and London around his 80th birthday, introducing his legacy to a new generation, with interviews in the Sunday Times and New York Times and coverage on the BBC, CNN and Sky.

Driving international mediaReal estate

Opening a landmark mall and Ritz-Carlton tower in Central Asia

Two launches a year apart in Almaty. We devised and ran the international media campaign alongside the red carpet and VIP events, putting the developer in front of international business, fashion and travel media, with guests including will.i.am and Eva Herzigova.

Communicating through mergersAgribusiness

Protecting a global agribusiness through its largest-ever acquisition

Planning for a contested completion and readiness for online activism against the deal, so the company was prepared on Day One. Then auditing both legacy companies’ social channels and deciding which to keep, merge or close, protecting the brand and its audiences and building one ecosystem for the future.

Training spokespeopleGovernment

Media training for a European foreign minister

Preparing a government minister for international media interviews.

Writing speechesBusiness leaders

Speeches for business leaders

For CBI directors-general, the chief executive of a global appliance maker at IFA Berlin, and the leadership of a national LNG company.

Building momentum for climate actionUnited Nations

Raising the profile of a UN climate initiative around two global summits

Media relations, spokesperson training and messaging for the UN climate change secretariat, helping business, political and public audiences see the progress being made and inspiring further action.