Consultancy support gone mad

There's an intriguing article in today's The Times headed 'Civil servant spent £73,000 on consultant to prepare himself for grilling by MPs.'


Onwards and upwards

PR Week’s annual survey of the top 150 UK PR agencies has just been published – with extremely encouraging results.


Passion killer

PR Week’s latest opinion column is fundamentally wrong about the value of professional passion.


Glitz, glamour & corruption

I see two PR people generated interesting news headlines for all the wrong reasons last week – by picking up jail sentences for fraud. But arguably the judge's comments were far more damaging for the PR profession than their scam ...


Consultation assignment for major regeneration scheme

Communications agency TK Associates has been appointed to run a public consultation to support a significant regeneration scheme for Bexhill-on-Sea, on England’s south coast.


TK Associates supports BMW business expansion

We have been hired to support the business expansion and development plans of a BMW and MINI dealership group.


Cutting through the brand marketing hype

I recently saw a great presentation that hammers a lot of sense into the faddish subject of consumer marketing and brand engagement.


Barclays – turning the crisis communications corner

Barclays' financial results today provide a good prompt to look at how the bank is faring, having been rocked by crises over the last year. Profits have plummeted by a staggering 96% and 3,700 jobs are set to be axed. But all's not as bad as it seems and there's much we can learn from the company's latest actions.


RIP ‘digital communications’

It’s the time of year when everyone makes predictions about the 12 months ahead, isn’t it?


The power of disgust … and danger of deception

Suddenly finding it’s almost the end of 2012, I thought about the most notable communications campaigns I’ve encountered in the last year.