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Abchat: Weekly Wrap Up: Co-op’s Comeback: Value vs Values
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Friday, 10 April 2015. Weekly Wrap Up: Co-op’s Comeback: Value vs Values. The Co-operative Group, the UK’s biggest mutual owned by 8.5 million people, announced this week that it has returned to profit. This development will likely surprise anyone who remembers when chief executive Richard Pennycook was forced to admit that, '2013 was a disastrous year, the worst in our 150-year history'. In short, it was a very public, very ugly meltdown. During this short Easter week, Abchaps hosted a Market Lunch, att...
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Abchat: Weekly Wrap Up: An Affair to Forget
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Friday, 17 April 2015. Weekly Wrap Up: An Affair to Forget. The Company’s Head of International Relations, Christoph Kraemer, told Bloomberg. That “Europe is the only region where we have a real chance of doing an IPO”. Why is that? Even though half of the adultery site’s users are based in the United States, Kraemer claims they have to list in London because Europe is more tolerant of adultery. Except that’s not exactly true, according to the Pew Research Centre. In the UK, Ashley Madison is currently b...
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Abchat: Weekly Wrap Up: This will blow your mind
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Friday, 20 March 2015. Weekly Wrap Up: This will blow your mind. With a headline like that, how could you NOT read this blog post? After all, that’s the point of click bait, the internet phenomenon made popular by websites such as Upworthy and Buzzfeed. Click bait essentially exploits the curiosity gap by omitting a key piece of information to entice someone to click and/or keep reading. So it came as somewhat of a surprise this week when Business Insider. On the other hand, if your headline is incredibl...
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Abchat: Weekly Wrap Up: The Biggest Loser this Election
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Friday, 8 May 2015. Weekly Wrap Up: The Biggest Loser this Election. Before the polls even opened on Thursday, there was already a clear loser in the UK general election: banks. Regardless of which party takes power, it seems that UK bank earnings are set to be hit by a wave of new legislation that could result in a rising bank levy, ring-fencing of operations, and even capping of retail banking market shares. Recently felt compelled to warn politicians against treating banks like a “cash cow”. So perhap...
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Abchat: Is PR ready for the digital revolution?
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015. Is PR ready for the digital revolution? Humankind has benefitted immeasurably from change and progress, and there is perhaps no greater example than the industrial revolution. But there are always winners and losers when it comes to change and progress. And that is important to remember now that we are in the third industrial revolution – the digital one. One of the key takeaways of the conference is that a digital silo isn’t enough – the PR industry has to fully embra...Weekly Wr...
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Abchat: Weekly Wrap Up: The Anti-immigrant Immigrant
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Friday, 15 May 2015. Weekly Wrap Up: The Anti-immigrant Immigrant. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney inadvertently put himself in the running to become UKIP’s new leader this week while delivering the quarterly Inflation Report. Never mind that Carney comes from a country built on the backs of immigrants, somehow the Bank’s forecast of economic conditions in the UK was translated into an anti-immigration rant by some newspapers. It seems the Canadian banker fell victim to the UK media’s drive fo...
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Abchat: Weekly Wrap Up: Steering tech coverage in the right direction
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Friday, 13 February 2015. Weekly Wrap Up: Steering tech coverage in the right direction. It looks like soon Britons won’t have to worry about driving home from the pub after having had a few too many. At least that’s what the Daily Mail coverage of the UK Government’s decision to allow driverless cars to be tested on public roads suggests. Still, the Daily Mail. And it wasn’t just the Daily Mail that presented driverless technology in the most horrifying way possible. The Telegraph. This headline refers ...
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Abchat: February 2015
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Friday, 27 February 2015. Weekly Wrap Up: Throwback to 1999. The financial world is, on the surface, abuzz this week as the FTSE 100 broke two records that have stood for over 15 years. On Tuesday, the FTSE 100 reached a new intraday high of 6,958.89 and also bettered its previous closing record by finishing the day at 6,949.63. While this is undoubtedly good news, undertones of uncertainty remain over what the repercussions of this success might be. A monthly late opening of the Natural History Museum.
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Abchat: Weekly Wrap Up: Minimise risk to your Corporate Reputation
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Friday, 27 March 2015. Weekly Wrap Up: Minimise risk to your Corporate Reputation. The value of a good corporate reputation cannot be understated. It’s one of the main reasons businesses invest in communications and public relations. That’s why tracking media trends and watching for developments that signal risks, as well as opportunities, should be part of any corporate communications strategy. Simon MacKinnon has been appointed Asia strategy adviser at the asset management firm Old Mutual Global Invest...
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Abchat: Weekly Wrap Up: A booster for energy companies’ PR
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Friday, 20 February 2015. Weekly Wrap Up: A booster for energy companies’ PR. Public contempt for UK energy companies has hit an all-time high since the Great Recession. In fact, energy bosses managed to achieve the impossible: they became an even greater embodiment of greed than the bankers who actually caused the financial crisis. So how did energy companies knock banks off the top position and assume the role of public enemy number one? This makes the recent drop in oil price a very interesting turn o...
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