New Type of Lawsuit Poses PR, IR Challenge
Some companies settle to avoid disruption
Corporate investor relations and public relations officers know that dealing with securities lawsuits is an inevitable cost of business as a public company. This past year saw a new type of lawsuit that has created headaches for a number of companies, including Microsoft, Cisco and Clorox. I wrote an article about this that appears in [...]
Do you work for or advise a fast-growing company that is thinking about going public? Or a privately owned business that has had difficulty finding the capital it needs to grow? Help is on the way in the form of a new law intended to spur job creation by relaxing the regulatory burdens of raising [...]
INVESTOhio brings companies and investors together
Fahlgren Mortine Investor Relations Sponsors Investor Conference
CEOs, CFOs and investor relations officers from 14 Ohio companies came together with money managers, analysts and investment professionals today at the INVESTOhio Equity Conference at the Easton Hilton hotel, across the street from our home base in Columbus. Fahlgren Mortine’s investor relations practice was proud to be a sponsor of the conference, which gave [...]
Cleveland Rocks 2010: Rockin’ PR in the C.L.E.
PRSA awards recognize this year's outstanding work
I’m proud to report back from the 2010 PRSA Cleveland Rocks luncheon that the Fahlgren Mortine Cleveland office earned six awards on behalf of six different clients. The honors recognized outstanding campaign and project work in various categories including business-to-business marketing, brand and reputation management, brochures, media kits and advertorials. (more…)
Neil Mortine and Kathy Cupper Obert Fahlgren, Edward Howard to Join Public Relations Businesses Alignment Forms Independent Powerhouse: Largest Firm in Ohio and Top 30 Nationally The acquisition, which joins the capabilities of Fahlgren Mortine Public Relations and Edward Howard, is expected to close during the first quarter of 2010 although integration and coordinated new [...]
The irony is that the topic being argued over is probably not visible to those to whom it matters most. The first shot was fired this morning when a few of the IR professionals on Twitter started sharing a Brunswick Group news release and presentation that reported the results of an online survey of about 500 [...]
Deloitte Consulting published an interesting study that was reported on in the April issue of the Harvard Business Review in an article titled “Are ‘Great’ Companies Just Lucky?” The report and more widely available coverage must have had business success book authors everywhere feeling momentary panic to think that their lists and insights may have [...]
Last month, we had the pleasure of attending the Central Ohio PRSA PRism Award luncheon. The annual awards ceremony recognizes the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the crème de la crème among central Ohio public relations firms and professionals. (Think of it as the Academy Awards, only without the red carpet, [...]
“Risk” is probably one of the large words in business news tag clouds these days. A NIRI newsletter called it the “word du jour in boardrooms and on the minds of institutional investors.” A September 15 story on CFO.com says that, after relative finance department obscurity, risk managers will be offered a seat at the [...]