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How agencies can benefit from R&D tax relief to drive innovation

Stephen Waddington

Sophie Smith Agencies can claim a proportion of research and development investment costs against their Corporation Tax. This is a government incentive aimed at encouraging innovation among UK companies. This is likely to be most applicable to agencies in the creative and professional services sector. More on that to come.

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PR Crisis Lessons from Cathay Pacific

Ronn Torossian

Cathay Pacific, a Hong Kong-based airline, ended up in a big PR crisis recently because two employees of the airline allegedly broke their home isolation Covid rules. After a series of heated statements from both external parties and company officials, the entire situation culminated in criticism from the Hong-Kong government.

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Notes on the UK public relations agency market

Wadds Inc.

Some observations and suggestions for public relations agency managers from our wheelhouse. Public relations agencies have either narrowly hit Q1 business targets or missed them by a small margin. The agency market has switched from being relatively buoyant at the end of Q3 2022 to a slowdown. The slowdown is impacting payments.

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Appetite remains for agency acquisitions across UK and Europe

Wadds Inc.

However, for owners of sought after capabilities, and agencies with strong propositions leading to good growth, and profitability, it remains a good market. Are there any trends agency owners should have on their radar? As a result PE are involved in over 50% of agency deals on average.

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Future skills for public relations practitioners - World PR Day

Stephen Waddington

There are several forces in play: Areas of the economy that shut down are reopening and organisations are firmly in recovery-mode The pandemic has created a new set of roles is areas such as employee engagement and sustainability Entry level roles are reopening as organisation begin to figure out the balance between home and office working.

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Upbeat report spotlights excellence in organisational communication during COVID-19

Stephen Waddington

These stories have been recorded and published in a report published by the Government Communication Service (GCS) COVID-19 Advisory Panel. It met weekly during the UK national lockdown and provided representation to the Government on behalf of industry.

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How your organization can communicate BEFORE a cyberattack

Axia PR

It’s important to prepare for a cyberattack well in advance by communicating with your critical audiences –– board, leadership, management, employees, customers, industry, regulatory agencies, government, and other stakeholders.