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Established in 1986, Intermarket is a financial services specialist communications firm focusing on global organizations whose products and services are used by a broad spectrum of the investment community. Intermarket’s clients include asset managers, broker-dealers, private and money center banks, marketplaces and exchanges, financial information providers, software and technology providers, professional service firms and financial and financial industry trade associations.
 
Intermarket brings a "critical mass" of potential content to the financial media. As result, we have deep and ongoing relationships with the financial and business press—U.S. and global—from the leading financial dailies, broadcast outlets and journals to the industry sector trades.
 
Intermarket also provides marketing and new media communications, copywriting, design, and events support to retained clients.  Our consultants know their clients' businesses intimately, as all agency principals and senior consultants have extensive professional experience in the financial services industry and/or financial media.

 

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Founded in 2000, Upstream is a full service marketing and corporate communications network positioned to help companies make the most of business opportunities in the Asia Pacific region. Upstream has offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo, as well as regional and global affiliates. Key practice areas include technology, corporate & financial, and consumer & travel.

Agency description

• Strategic communications consulting
• PR and press relations
• Media training/coaching
• Corporate publishing
• Ghostwriting, speech editing
• Branding, financial advertising

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Cunha Vaz & Associados is a company focused on strategic consulting and on the area of media and investor/analyst relations, with a particular emphasis on companies listed on national and international markets, namely in the financial sector. Founded in 2003, the company grew exponentially in the last few years, and now enjoys a unique position in the Portuguese market, combining expertise in the fields of investor and analyst relations with its capabilities in media relations, whilst at the same time establishing itself as one of the market's leading information providers or brokers.

At Cunha Vaz & Associados, our mission is to provide communication services to the highest standards of excellence and originality, to companies, public institutions and other organizations, in Portugal and abroad. We design our services to help clients develop their business and implement projects to create value. We believe in our staff, shareholders, customers and local communities as the primary agents of our success.

Cunha Vaz & Associados boasts a team of professionals offering expertise in different sectors of the economy: Banking and Insurance, Infrastructures and Manufacturing, Energy and Environment, Social Issues and NGOs, Health and Pharmaceuticals, IT and Telecommunications, Media, Transport, Logistics and Wholesale, Higher Education, Sport, Tourism and Leisure.
From 2005 onwards, Cunha Vaz & Associados started to expand into international markets, having now offices in S. Paulo (Brazil) and Luanda (Angola).

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Farner is the market leading PR- and communications agency in Switzerland.

At Farner we are proud of our leading market position as well as of our history of more than 55 years of solid public relations achievement. The agency is fully management-owned.

Our wide range of services, from media relations and public affairs to financial relations, health care communications, IT communications, corporate communications, to advertising and event marketing, provide you with the necessary base for executing communications mandates and managing integrated campaigns.

We are involved in all main aspect of business, society and politics, covering the nation with our own offices in Zurich, Berne, Basel, Lausanne, Geneva and Lugano.

Based on experience and size, our methodology is a benchmark and we are able to offer best-in-class efficiency in terms of a cost/results ratio. The track record of Farner is unrivaled in the market and we are dedicated to improve, adopting the CMS II quality standard for our mangement process (CMS = Consultancy Management Standard, developed by the International Communications Consultancy Organisation ICCO).

Financial and Investor Relations 

The demanding discipline of financial and investor relations has been a Farner PR core competence all along. One of its main goals is to guide the expectations of target groups according to the client’s interests (expectation management).

We act as consultants to listed and private companies and handle communications with investors, banks, the business media and other players in the capital markets. Working closely with our clients’ project teams and with investment bankers, auditors and lawyers as needed, we provide

• financial communications for listed companies
• guidance on mergers and acquisitions
• advice on communications in repelling hostile takeover bids
• restructuring advice
• advice on financial transaction communications
• advice on IPO communications
• communications consulting services on financing new companies at different stages of growth
• advice on communications of private placements
• advice on communications of management takeovers (MBOs).

Agency description

We were founded in 1991, are now 115-strong and all hands-on. Critically, we operate without internal divisions, meaning we put together bespoke teams of experts for clients, drawing on experience from across the agency to create the right mix for each assignment. If your brief changes or you have additional needs, we can respond quickly without worrying about crossing disciplines or departments.

Our work covers a wide range of disciplines including public relations, financial PR, public affairs, employee engagement, crisis management, digital media, consumer PR, branding and design, and corporate responsibility.  We offer specialist expertise across industry sectors, including healthcare, insurance, financial and professional services, retail, food and drink, FMCG, technology and telecoms, media, energy and utilities, green business and transport.  We have a deep understanding of all aspects of London’s capital markets, including asset management, hedge funds, private equity, market infrastructure, exchanges and trading, investment banks, fixed income/FX and financial regulation.

We are also conscious that we live in a new age of communications democracy: through the text, the tweet, the file share, the flash mob, the viral, the download, the discussion board.  We at Fishburn Hedges embrace and embody this: a company at the leading edge of reputation management thinking, with planning, insights and creativity at its heart.

 

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Grupo Albión is a full-service corporate and financial communications agency, combining local understanding with global experience. Founded in 1991 by Paget Langford-Holt and Alejandra Moore Mayorga, we are 28 people in Madrid, Spain from where we cover our clients’ communications needs throughout Iberia and indeed the world. Grupo Albión is independent, which means freedom from the influence of any parent or organisation, ensuring that the prime motivation is to deliver success for our clients.

business areas

• corporate
• crisis communications
• public affairs
• capital markets
• financial and investor relations
• consumer

We provide a set of core services for our business areas.

Integrated services (including translations and editing, event management, design and production of marketing materials, advertising creativity, media buying and direct marketing, branding and social media monitoring and content management)

sector focus

Our business practice is structured around a range of sector specialisations to maximise the advantages that this knowledge brings us and our clients: energy, financial, industrial, IT/Telecoms, life sciences, media & education, property & construction, retail & distribution and travel & tourism.

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i&e helps position, protect and promote client’s businesses through the management of their reputation and brand, based on a solid understanding of opinion systems and key audiences. i&e is France’s leading independent public relations group with fees totalling € 15 million in 2009 and a staff of 160 working for more than 140 clients in France and abroad. i&e delivers full PR services: opinion monitoring and analysis (i&e Décision),  public relations strategies and programs (i&e Consultants), online and social web strategies and programs (i&e On), change management programs (i&e Management), corporate media and publishing (i&e Expressions).
 
i&e has strong track record in accompanying financial services (banks, insurance, investment funds, real estate, private equity, professional services) and listed companies in their corporate and financial communications. This includes expertise in brand and reputation management, awareness program, media relations, online programs, change management, crisis prevention and management, public affairs,  investor relations, shareholder and employee communications, client events, trainings, annual reports financial advertising, brochures, etc.

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Since its foundation in 1983, Interel has grown and adapted to become a leading strategic communications, public affairs and association management company in continental Europe. Headquartered in Brussels, Interel operates through own offices in Berlin, Paris, Prague, London and Washington DC, and partners in all other major cities in Europe. 

The synergy between our Public Affairs, Public Relations and Association Management services allows Interel to provide its clients with a comprehensive and seamless offering.

Our 100+ dedicated consultants come from a wide variety of cultural, educational and professional backgrounds. Between us we speak 16 languages and are trained in business, law, science, government and the public sector, as well as having broader experience in politics, journalism and communications.

Our Brussels headquarter places us close to the heart of EU and national decision making, combining an international approach with a firm grounding in the Belgian market place.
Interel can quickly respond to any client request requiring presence on a specific market or, indeed, the ability to manage a pan-European network of consultancies.

Interel  Facts & Figures
Established: 1983
Full service agency: Corporate, Financial and Brand Marketing Communication, Crisis
communication and Issues Management, Pan European Campaign management, Public Affairs (European and Belgian), European Representation & Association management, Corporate Design.
Employees: 100+

 

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Twister is an Italian company specializing in corporate, finance and financial services communication.
Through its subsidiary IPS Interzone Perego&Solera (IPS), Twister serves the fields of mass industrial products and digital communication (internet and social media)

The company was founded in 1994 as D&C Financial Communication and has its  Head Quarter Offices  in Milan. It is controlled by nine shareholders who are directly engaged in running the company and in its professional activities on behalf of its clients.

Twister’s services are dedicated to industrial groups, commercial banks and financial service providers, listed companies and firms preparing for financial operations.

During its 16 years of activity, Twister has worked for many Italian and international groups, companies and multinationals in a wide range of industries and business fields, helping them with specific projects, handling their corporate, financial or product communication plans as an outsourced subcontractor or providing strategic advice to the top management.

In 2010 the company has strengthened its positioning establishing IPS, born from the merger of Perego&Solera - acquired in 2007 – (product communication),and Interzone (digital communication and corporate events).  Twister operates in Energy and Sport & Leisure through the business units TwisterGreenTeam and Twister Sport.

With a professional staff of fifty-three, a turnover of €5m and more than 100 corporate clients, Twister is one of the foremost companies in the Italian PR industry.

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Upstream Australia is a member of Upstream Marketing and Communication, one of the fastest growing media, marketing and public relations groups in the Asia-Pacific.  With every assignment, we set out to achieve real business and brand results that have demonstrable value to our clients.  Our deep understanding of the region, media and marketing savvy,  and a strategic and creative approach to campaign planning, helps us to achieve this.

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Borouj Consulting is a fresh thinking communications consultancy, delivering integrated marketing campaigns, with a core expertise in Public Relations.

Based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, our team comes from a variety of different agency backgrounds and industry experience, and has strong Arabic and English language capabilities, and an unrivalled knowledge of the way the Arab World works. Collectively, we have provided PR support to a wide range of organisations and have virtually worked on every business sector.

With this wealth of regional experience comes an exceptional relationship with the media as well as solid industry sector and practice expertise. Our collective experience spans Corporate, Financial, Consumer, B2B, IT, Automotive, Healthcare, and Aviation sectors, to name a few. We have strong expertise in Media Relations, Issues and Crisis Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Community Relations and Communications Training.

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Huijskens Communications is an Amsterdam-based public relations consultancy, founded in 1992 and specialized in corporate and financial communications, issue management and public affairs.

We have high-level access to media, politicians, the business community, shareholders, regulators and NGOs. We serve an international client-base that includes blue-chip corporations, senior executives and governments.

We plan and execute public relations campaigns for national and international clients, including activities related to acquisitions, IPOs and major strategic initiatives.

We provide corporate and financial public relations services, political lobbying, strategic counseling, issue and interim management and media training for listed and non-listed companies, chairmen, chief executives and board members, government ministers, ministries and local authorities. Our corporate clients include leading companies in sectors including financial services, energy, property, technology, media and telecommunications, IT, consumer industries, legal, accountancy and health.

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Ryan Financial Communications is a specialist in financial and corporate media relations in Asia-Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, we provide tailored advice to meet our clients' needs. We are independent, strategic and proactive with expertise spanning media, finance and professional services. We are a specialist firm working with banks, brokers, funds and law firms across Asia.

Our core services focus on media relations, spokesperson training and crisis communications. We implement successful campaigns for our clients using a range of tactics including media interviews, press tours, press releases, spokesperson training and message development, strategic counsel and communications advice, by-lined articles, white papers and thought leadership stories and reputation and issues management.

The company’s consultants are experienced professionals, a mix of former reporters and PR professionals, with deep knowledge of Asia-Pacific, finance and media relations. We have strong relationships with key editors and reporters across the region. These relationships help ensure our clients gain media exposure on targeted media platforms that best support their business initiatives.

 

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Cunha Vaz & Associados Brasil is the Brazilian arm of Cunha Vaz & Associados SA, one of the leading Portuguese firms in the field of communication consultancy. In the process of internationalising its activities, Cunha Vaz & Associados SA is focusing on Portuguese-speaking countries, especially since it has defined their markets as priority areas where it can share the know-how that it has steadily accumulated over the years.

Cunha Vaz & Associados Brasil is an integrated communication agency that concentrates in particular on financial communication. It provides services in all areas involving communication activities, from event planning and a press advisory service to crisis communication and reputation management.

The firm’s presence in Brazil (and similarly Angola) is primarily the result of the need felt to provide support for – mainly – European companies that would like to invest and be present in these fast-growing markets. With a team of Portuguese and Brazilian specialists who possesses a solid knowledge of local conditions, CV&A Brasil has established a series of partnerships with companies that have a long history in the country. In this way, Cunha Vaz & Associados seeks to remain abreast of Brazil’s economic development, which, according to all indications, is set to continue in the medium and long term.

In an economic situation that is so propitious for Brazil, it is also part of Cunha Vaz Brasil’s strategy to provide Brazilian enterprises with a channel to penetrate the markets in Europe and Angola. With this commitment to the Brazilian market, Cunha Vaz & Associados is taking another step in consolidating the expansion strategy for Portuguese-speaking markets that it initiated with the opening of its Luanda office in 2008.

 

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Established in Sydney in 1997, Honner Media is Australia’s leading communications consultancy specialising in the financial services sector. 

Our experience spans the spectrum of asset management, superannuation, personal finance, broking, custody, financial technology and the mortgage market - running campaigns that talk to institutional investors, intermediaries, direct investors, consumers and government.

Our reputation is built on our specialist financial knowledge, proven track record in delivering results and longstanding industry and media relationships. These team attributes underpin our ability to build tailored communication strategies that support our clients’ business goals.

Most of our clients are leading global or boutique brands who have worked with us on a retainer basis over many years. These long standing relationships enable us to become an integral part of our clients’ business – either working alongside their internal communications teams or becoming their key communications resource.

Our team comprises senior PR practitioners with backgrounds in journalism, in-house corporate communications, law and accounting. Everyone brings financial services experience and deep media contacts.

Our Services

• Communications strategy development and implementation
• Policy advocacy, agenda setting and thought leadership
• Product launches
• Tailored daily media reports
• Media relations / press room
• Stakeholder engagement programs
• Investor communications
• Issues management
• Member and client communications
• Media training