Graham writes........
This weekend our clients were in the news frequently. A few highlights include Duncan Bannatyne who featured in the Sunday Times Rich List - he was one of the few people who has increased his fortune in these difficult times. Also Pimlico Plumbers had a number of stories in the media including a feature on BBC TV news following the budget and one in the Sun and the Sunday Times after it released its annual results. One of our IT clients, the specialist software firm Crisp Thinking (which was founded by Adam Hildreth the former CBI young entrepreneur of the year) has featured in national and international media with features in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. Crisp Thinking designs software that protects children from online threats and is the UK's foremost online child protection specialist. In designing software that works with all manner of internet programmes and selling its solutions to the US market it brings to life a 21st Century example of taking coals to Newcastle.

Finally congratulations to our landlord - and a longstanding client - Marchday plc. The firm has now won two coveted awards for the provision of fanstastic office accommodation at its Memphis Building at Lingfield Point in Darlington. You'll be seeing more of this story in the media as the regeneration going on at Lingfield point hasn't stopped despite the recession and we are proud to promote it.

Post-Budget 'Question Time'

Graham writes.....

Today I've taken part in a fun event that raised the profile of three of our clients - the Institute of Directors, Lingfield Point and Arlington Financial. The event was a Budget 'Question Time', based on the BBC TV show. It was attended by dozens of business leaders in the North East and filmed for a 30 minute web TV programme which will appear on the websites of local newspapers and our own broadbandtvchannel.co.uk. You'll know if I spoke well by looking at the link http://www.broadbandtvchannel.co.uk/clip.asp?clipid=441 but the event was a PR success and shows the benefit of bringing clients with different interests together. In terms of publicity and attendance it worked well and our local TV crew did an excellent job. I have actually been a panelist on the real Question Time in 2004 (during a special on the North East Regional Assembly campaign) and assisted when my client Duncan Bannatyne was a guest last year. He was very good and took the trouble to bounce ideas off me in the car on the way to the recording. I can testify that guests really don't know what the questions are, but a solid knowledge of the process should enable you to predict the most difficult ones - which we did when Duncan appeared.

First blog

Welcome to the first blog from the Recognition Bloggers. Our firm is located in the North East and the West Midlands with offices in Darlington and Lichfield. Our clients are from many different walks of life and business. They include the famous multi-millionaire Duncan Bannatyne and his group of companies which we have served for obver 15 years. Also we work with national chains such as Busy Bees Nurseries, Southern Cross Healthcare, Rok plc - the nation's local builder, The Priory, Just Learning Nurseries, and Four Seasons Healthcare.

We also work for a number of professional firms and some businesses with unusual products and services including a firm of baliffs, the Wensleydale Creamery (known for Wallace & Gromitt's famous Wensleydale cheese) and the Stephenson Group which has made soap products in Leeds since the 19th century.

At our Darlington office we have a working TV studio and a radio studio. These produce numerous web videos, some of which you can see via this blog.

We have an extensive network of contacts in the media politics and business and over the coming months will be making regular posts from the front line in PR detailing how we have been promoting various clients on a day to day basis.