Fishburn Hedges

01.06.2009

Fishburn Hedges Group has acquired specialist corporate reporting firm, Pauffley, it was announced today.  Pauffley will combine with design and brand identity company, FHD, to create a new top 50 design consultancy, which has ambitious development plans, in particular the strengthening of its digital offer.

The to-be-named company will be based within Fishburn Hedges Group’s offices in central London, with a physical move likely in early July.  The management team will be headed by FHD’s Adrian Day and Pauffley’s Patrick Eastwood, as managing director and deputy managing director respectively.

Day said: “The fit is excellent, as Pauffley’s experience and reputation in corporate reporting take us to a different level and, importantly, provide us with a much better platform for developing our overall digital offer.”

Eastwood said: “Pauffley’s clients and our people will benefit from being part of a larger, more diverse group with a wider range of opportunities, especially FHD’s experience in brand development and design.  Our combined client portfolio will clearly benefit from a wider offering with deeper expertise, drawn from Fishburn Hedges Group, one of the UK’s most experienced and successful marketing and communications agencies.”

Fishburn Hedges Group CEO, Neil Hedges said: “The world of business communications is changing fast and entering a bold new, interactive age.  The combination of Pauffley and FHD provides us with the perfect platform on which to invest for this exciting future.”

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About the Fishburn Hedges Group

The Fishburn Hedges Group includes Fishburn Hedges, design and branding business FHD, consumer PR business Seventy Seven and a to-be-named digital marketing business.  It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of advertising and marketing services group Abbott Mead Vickers Group and of Omnicom, the US-quoted communication group. The firm has achieved a top 20 placing in the Financial Times’ ‘Best Companies to work for’ for each of the last seven years.

About FHD

FHD is a leading UK design firm. Established in 1991, the company specialises in providing corporate branding, brand engagement and reporting services and its clients span FTSE100 businesses, government bodies and not-for-profit firms, and include the Co-operative Group, Invensys, the Audit Commission and Network Rail.

FHD has an experienced team bringing together knowledge about a wide range of industry sectors, gained both in other agencies and in-house. Part of the Fishburn Hedges Group, FHD is also able to offer clients access to expertise in public relations, stakeholder and internal communications and public affairs. FHD is able to leverage the wider experience of the Group both on an informal basis and to provide fully integrated client campaigns.

About Pauffley

Pauffley is a specialist design agency with 25 years' experience helping some of Europe's leading organisations engage their stories with business-critical audiences. These stakeholders include investors, employees, shareholders and local communities.

The projects they help them with include annual reports, CSR reports, corporate brochures, employee engagement programmes, codes of conduct, brands and visual identities and websites.

They provide clients with a range of services, including best practice and communications consultancy, design and art direction, print management, web design and technical consultancy.

Pauffley's current clients include Barclays, Cable & Wireless, Cinven, Prudential, Schroders and Spire Healthcare