News - March 2008

February was a very packed month for PNPR. We celebrated our 10th anniversary with two parties. The first at the Surrey Business Awards where we were finalists in the Best Small Business section, out of a possible 60,000 SMEs.

Secondly, we celebrated at Guildford’s beautiful 17th century Burchatts Barn with 50 clients, media and family. We held a raffle for our charity, The Normandy Community Therapy Garden, raising £300 and there was much merry-making as people arrived dressed as 10 year-olds. The theme for the 10th Birthday bash was Be Ten!

PNPR is also delighted to announce signing up with an excellent Surrey business, RTfact Ltd., the interior design company, specialising in beautiful Chinese silk flowers

We also signed up with three more Seymours estate agency offices, having worked with Seymours Guildford for 8 years. The new offices are in Burpham; Worplesdon Road, Guildford, and Godalming

Nicky Brown was busy liaising with Industrial Fuels and Power magazine regarding the final proof and layout of an in-depth feature written on behalf of Evonik Power Minerals, due for publication in March

She also drafted a 2,000 word article for World Cement magazine and liaising with Evonik and the journal regarding the feature, due for publication in March …

… and liaised with Evonik and World Coal magazine regarding a 2,000 word article and drafting article

Finally, Nicky attended the ‘Ecobuild 2008 - Innovations for the Built Environment’ exhibition at Earls Court, London

Kate McCarthy achieved for SDS’s David Shelton a double bill in this month's leading trade magazine, Showhouse. Namely, his regular column and he was also quoted on P.5 about the demise of Ujima

Sasha Nathanson had continuing talks with leading Surrey developers and architects about possible work with PNPR GREEN

Lunch meeting between Sasha and Paul Nathanson and Caroline Bullock, Business Editor of the Surrey Advertiser, to discuss ideas

Sasha wrote and presented a 10 minute talk at Guildford’s BEST business group

Vanessa Green was busy setting up meetings for Andrew Dunsmore’s Picture Partnership Studio in Croydon with PR agencies for possible assignments

Paul Nathanson, lastly, set up interviews with the FT and Sunday Times for our new client, Kate Craig-Wood, MD of the highly successful web hosting company, Memset

He also wrote and secured publication in the business pages of the Surrey Advertiser the third column on Business Travel Tips for our client, Convention Travel. This was about avoiding cultural blunders when doing business abroad

Paul also achieved the lead story in the Advertiser business pages on our client, Keith Howell-Jones, one of the owner  partners in Howell-Jones rhw solicitors in Surrey.