Specialist practices
We have assembled our group of complementary practices to support our clients in their dealings with their principal stakeholders in business: the people who invest in companies, the media who write about them, the analysts who form opinion on valuations, the politicians and regulators responsible for the rules of the game, and their employees. Setting the direction on business strategy is the insight provided by our strategic research company. Maintaining clarity and consistency of message is our award winning creative reporting and brand business who have embraced social media as a core skill.
Our main practices are:
- Business communications
- Capital markets, inc M&A and IPOs
- Financial PR and IR
- Brand building PR
- Corporate communications
- Risk, issues and crisis management
- Coaching
- Government and regulatory affairs
- Competition policy
- Local stakeholder consultation and engagement
- Branding, design, reporting and digital including social media
- Employee engagement
- Strategic research
Industry sectors
Our Business Communications team, the College Hill original Financial PR and IR business practice, has been structured along industry sector lines for over a decade.
These specialist teams follow their industries on a global basis and bring to clients a fluency in the issues and trends that are driving sector dynamics.
As a result of this long-established sector approach, our teams have built strong relationships with the investing institutions, analysts, business media and experts who also specialise. These relationships are a powerful benefit to our clients.
Our main sector teams cover :
Financial Services
Industrials Retail & Luxury Brands
Leisure & Consumer
Technology, Media & Telecoms
Natural Resources, Energy & Renewables
Life Sciences
Fast Growth Economies
Food and Drink
Risk, Issues & Crisis Management
At the core of College Group is a broadly-based business communications consultancy, College Hill, which provides strategic and logistical support to clients through its financial PR and investor relations consultancy services. Our highly-experienced consultants offer clients the strategic support and implementation needed at times of change – such as during transactions or a crisis – as well as day-to-day management of their valuation, reputation and ultimately their business objectives. Being organised in industry sector teams keeps our teams in daily contact with sector dynamics and helps build strong relationships with analysts and media following their sector.
Services
Financial PR
Brand Building & PR
Investor Relations
Capital Markets: M&A, IPOs
B2B Communications
Media Relations
Thought Leadership
Emerging Markets
Reputation Management
Risk, Issues & Crisis Management
Coaching
Business success is more than ever dependent upon the decisions and views of politicians and regulators. Winning businesses actively engage with the wider policy- forming community, be it in Whitehall, Brussels or on Capitol Hill.
By advising clients of political and regulatory changes that will impact their business and when, with whom and how to engage on policy issues, College Public Policy consultants help their clients' bottom lines to grow and prosper.
Services
Government Relations
Lobbying
Public Affairs
Regulatory Advice
Policy Research & Analysis
Public Procurement and PPP
Strategic Political Counsel
Local Government & Planning
Public Consultation
Select Committee Support
Trade & Competition Policy
Political Monitoring
Creative implementation in support of strategic positioning is a fundamentally important part of a company’s ability to communicate effectively. With increasing emphasis on digital delivery and audience segmentation, understanding communications complexities is crucial in building reputation and value.
The College provides creativity, analysis and informed insight to deliver innovative, integrated strategies and execution specialising in brand, reporting and digital.
Our access to sector and practice specialists across the College Group gives us unrivalled access to market opinion and insight, adding tangible and measurable value to our clients’ business. These include some of the world's largest organisations, who we help to build long-term relationships with their key stakeholders.
Services
Brand Strategy
Design & Content
Reporting
Digital / Social Media
Employee and customer engagement is more than a nice to have; compelling research shows a hard link between engagement and bottom line success
Instinctif are at the forefront of latest engagement thinking, developing campaigns, infrastructure and messaging that deliver measureable success for some of the worlds leading companies. The instinctif team includes experienced business managers and communication experts with the skills to design and deliver programmes in support of change, transormation or simply to drive best in class performance.
Services
Employee Engagement
Internal Communications
Customer Engagement
Business Performance
Design
Consultancy
Strategic Planning
The most successful strategies are those which meet and anticipate change. We believe in the power of truth as a driver of change recognising it, understanding it, and creating it.
We help our clients build profitable brand and business strategies, based on insight into the way people think, feel and behave – the deep and distinctive truths our clients need to know to help their brands succeed.
Truth brings together an eclectic mix of expertise in business strategy, brand development, innovation and communications. This mix means that we are not tied to any one method – we have the freedom to focus on delivering the best solution to the challenge.
Services
Market Research
Strategic Insights
Market Understanding
Segmentation
Change Management
Management Consultancy