PressRelations.co.uk is a Cheshire-based consultancy specialising in media relations for companies in North-West England. We have joined forces with London PR consultancy Insights UK and its sister company, Brand Faith, to offer a range of specialist financial PR and investor relations services.

Together we have formed CityPressRelations.co.uk.

Aimed mainly at companies on or planning to list on the London Stock Exchange, or the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), our services will also be of interest to businesses planning to raise their profile regionally and nationally.

We are most effective when working with professional advisers such as accountancy firms, stockbrokers and lawyers to offer your clients a seamless, integrated service with the economies of scale and advantages of being based locally.

We have identified a clear market need for a regionally-based financial PR service, but can also offer access to a wider skills network as and when required. We have close links to a number of leading City-based financial PR firms so can call on additional resources if necessary.

Our core skills and services are financial and corporate communications, investor relations, issues management, media and presentation skills training, media relations, speech-writing, strategic planning, website planning and design*

We are also able to provide a range of complementary services such as annual report design and production*, AGM organisation and management, brand design and development*, corporate identity *, crisis planning and management, film and video production*.
(* = Through Brand Faith, Insights UK’ sister company.)

KEY PEOPLE

Andrew Mackay, MIPRA

With more than 20 years corporate and financial PR experience in leading national and international consultancies, Andrew’s financial and investor relations experience includes Argyll Group plc, Amstrad plc, Eurotunnel plc and Securicor Group plc.

He was one of the advisers to Amstrad on that company’s acquisition of Sir Clive Sinclair’s group and merits a mention in Sir Alan Sugar’s biography for a deal which dominated the business pages at the time.

As manager of Hill & Knowlton’s Bahrain office, he represented Rolls-Royce plc throughout the Middle East and built on his extensive experience of banking, financial services and insurance clients during a five-year stint in the region. His professional services experience includes advising Baker Tilly on its merger with Milne Ross; Deloitte Haskins & Sells ahead of the deregulation of the profession; and the London Society of Chartered Accountants on its regional business relevance.

Iain Macauley

Iain is a former journalist to national newspaper level, and also has extensive broadcast news experience. After switching from newspapers to PR in the mid-1980s he progressed through a number of high-capability PR consultancies before taking a succession of full or partial equity stakes in a number of PR agencies. In May 2003 he went back to basics as a frontline PR consultant.

He has a broad base of experience including general press relations, litigation support, image protection and crisis communications.