A week that began with a lukewarm reception for the fiscal stimulus package contained in Alistair Darling’s pre-budget report seems set to end with our beaten and battered economy no closer to getting itself up off the canvas. In London today more than 30 stores have staged special 7am openings in an attempt to ensure [...]
Archive for the ‘Reputation’ Category
Heaven knows I’m miserable now…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Public Relations, Reputation, tagged Alitalia, BA, Economy, Recession, The Smiths on 28 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cars
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Politics, Public Relations, Reputation, tagged Cars, Detroit, Gary Numan, Richard Edelman on 19 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On one level, the current debate over the fate of the Big 3 Detroit car companies – and specifically whether the US Government should extend a further $25bn of public money to help the industry weather its own current financial crisis – puts me in mind of the “what have the Roman’s ever done for [...]
Suspicious minds…
Posted in Banking, Credit Crunch, Economy, Media, Public Relations, Reputation, tagged Cedric Brown, Clinton Manning, Daily Mirror, HBoS, News of the World, Public Relations, Sunday Mail on 10 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is no situation so bad that can’t be made even worse with a “lavish staff blowout” as yesterday’s News of the World front page story about HBoS’s Annual Star Gala event, which took place in Edinburgh last week, and the Sunday Mail’s exclusive about the bank’s planned December event in Birmingham for 1,500 mortgage [...]
Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Hedge Funds, Reputation, tagged Credit Crunch, Hedge Funds, International Standard Asset Management, Man Group, Stanley Fink on 29 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
Other than the banks themselves, no sector has been closer to the frontline of the Credit Crunch than the Hedge Fund industry which has found itself in the unwelcome role of chief scapegoat for the collapse of the financial world as we previously knew it. This is an object lesson in what happens when an [...]
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Politics, Reputation, tagged Chelsea Football Club, Credit Crunch, George Osborne, Oleg Deripaska, Peter Mandelson, Political Donations on 27 October 2008 | 2 Comments »
My inaugural blog post (Never mind the Economics) looked at the issue of perception and reality but as this is an issue that sits at the heart of PR and communications I make no apologies for returning to it again today, following a weekend of heated media debate about the links of the UK’s business [...]
Hate to say I told you so…
Posted in Economy, Politics, Reputation, tagged BBC, Bloomberg, Conservatives, David Cameron, Nick Robinson, Tory Party on 17 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Regular readers (both of you) will recall my post earlier in the week (I’m still standing…) that predicted David Cameron’s Conservative party would be eager to break free of their self-imposed supportive stance towards the Government’s economic stability proposals and re-establish their credentials as a party of opposition by, well, opposing things. This morning’s speech [...]
I heard it through the grapevine…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Media, Reputation, tagged BBC, Credit Crunch, FT, ITN, Observer, Recession on 16 October 2008 | 2 Comments »
The semi-nationalisation of a UK banking sector brought to its knees by a sustained collapse in trust and the rapid development of an unstoppable wave of negative (and possibly malicious) sentiment highlights the fact that this is the first recession of the digital age. For several years the NGO sector has led the way in [...]
Some guys have all the luck…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Media, Reputation, tagged BBC, churnalism, Flat Earth News, Nick Davies, Robert Peston on 15 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At times over the last couple of weeks it’s felt like Robert Peston, the BBC’s business editor, has generated as many headlines as the credit crunch with which his name has become almost synonymous. “The most powerful business journalist I have known in my lifetime” said Stephen Glover in the Independent at the weekend, while [...]
Diamonds (and PR gaffes) are forever…
Posted in Edelman, Reputation, tagged Edelman, Gerald Ratner, Henley Business School, Jo Sheldon, John Madejski, Reputation on 10 October 2008 | 4 Comments »
Breaking away – if it’s possible – from the collapsing world economy, an interesting flyer lands on my desk for the 2008 Reputation Conference at the John Madejski Centre for Reputation at Henley Business School. The keynote speaker is one Gerald Ratner who certainly knows a thing or two about demolishing reputations – but is he [...]
