Newgate Communications is a fast growing international communications consultancy that specialises in capital market communications and financial media relations, corporate reputation building and public policy and regulatory consultancy. Our task is to change the way people think about our clients by developing insight and ideas that resonate with its important constituencies and the opinion formers […]
It might seem an oxymoron that the world’s most admired company can have an image problem. But the backlash that hit Apple in 2010 after a spate of worker suicides at its outsourced assembly plant in Shenzhen, underscored that reputation is now much more than just great products and profits. Ethical behaviour increasingly matters, especially […]
Newgate Communications Scotland joined with leading business law firm, DVF Biggart Baillie, Glasgow to hold a debate on whether Scotland is still a good place to do business despite the economic slow-down and the uncertainty engineered by the independence referendum in 2014? It was heartening that both our speakers, Iain McMillan, Director CBI Scotland and […]
Reports of a fresh wave of Chinese listings are likely to cheer IPO sponsors but elicit a loud groan from investors. Will this time around be different? The wounds from the recent boom-to-bust history of Chinese listings amid accounting scandals, missed numbers and falling share prices are still raw. This means Chinese companies will return […]
Basel III, Ministry of Defence spending cuts and why Chicken Shack needs auto-enrolment pensions all became relevant to the latest The View from The Bridge debate: Rule Britannia? Is Britain still a good place to do business? Bill Robinson, one the most respected economists in the UK and a former advisor to a former Chancellor […]
A collective shiver went through Hong Kong last week after it was revealed a deadly new strain of bird flu had broken out in China. Coming on the tenth anniversary of SARS, this inevitably brought back memories of an unhappy chapter when Hong Kong went into lockdown and paralysis. For one of the most congested […]
After Eastleigh and the Budget, all eyes in Westminster are now focused on the outcome of May’s local government elections, as pundits and politicians alike try to size up the odds of the coalition Government clinging on to power in 2015. The three main party leaders have all launched their local election campaigns this week. […]
In the US it is said that the media covers business as if it is sport – or sports as they would have it. One company is up, and executive is down, there’s always time for a recovery. In the UK it is going the same way. Except the coverage doesn’t resemble cricket, rugby or […]
“Ex-PM Silvio #Berlusconi confronted by topless women with Enough Berlusconi scrawled on them at polls http://bbc.in/YOaVKz #elezioni2013”. This was, by far, the most striking BBC News tweet of yesterday, when the news agenda was otherwise dominated by the Pope’s last message and speculation about Oscar winners. Love him or loathe him, Berlusconi is unforgettable […]
