March 2009 – News
 
  •  Newsflash! PNPR is delighted to report that we have won the Marketing Award at the Surrey Business Awards. This is a great honour, given the calibre of businesses competing in the county’s most prestigious contest like Allianz Insurance, The Guildford Spectrum Leisure Complex and Specsavers. Sponsors included Deloitte, HSBC and Royal Mail. The award follows our being finalists last year as Small Business of the Year and also our being short-listed this year for Innovation in Business.
     
    • PNPR is also delighted to announce our new client, Tutor Doctors, tutors who help young people from the earliest ages up to A Levels. TDs are already a highly successful operation in Canada.
    • With a very short turnaround of just three days Vanessa Green achieved significant national coverage for our new client, The Whiteley Clinic in Guildford. The brief was to secure as much national coverage as possible for the first UK  operation under a local anaesthetic to stop excessive sweating from the armpits.
    • The Mail on Sunday gave the story nearly half a page.
    • The Mailonline website gave it a whole page.
    • The Telegraph website did likewise.
    • Capital Radio featured the story and The Daily Star followed up with a picture news item.
    • For our client Alun Heslop of Chair Creative, we achieved coverage in Diarmuid Gavin’s Garden Designs magazine in the April edition. 
    • For Alun we also hit the Surrey Times in the 7th March edition for his participation in the Spring Exhibition at Chalk Hill Contemporary Art. 
    • Coverage appeared too in 13th March edition of the Surrey Advertiser, featuring Alun’s participation in the same exhibition. Tamsin Williams of PNPR also ensured that the Advertiser’s art critic, Bea Philpotts, chatted to Alun at the Chalk Hill Preview.
    • Sasha Nathanson continued to help Seymours with their Property Clinic in the Surrey Advertiser which appeared over nearly a whole page in the House and Garden supplement. She also supplied weekly comments to the property pages.
    • Paul Nathanson secured the five part series on BBC Radio for our client Kate Craig-Wood. This featured her campaign for changes in the NHS treatment of transgirls. This also appeared on the BBC Southern Counties website as a full page with interview links.