12/29/2007

The year of corporate governance

 

 

As 2007 is coming to an end, the year  could be described as that of corporate governance due to the popularity and dimension of corporate governance in company investor relations. In short, there is no example that illustrates this better than one full page advertisement that appeared in the FT of october 17 captioned "Open letter to the shareholders of HSBC PL."  Which we can describe as a lacerating critic of the management of HSBC, by an institutional investor if we remember that, Knight Vinke Asset Management  sent a petition to prime minister dominique de villepin on the fusion of gdf-gdf.

12/22/2007

A reference material

The first campaign, globalisation, the web and thre race for the white house by Garrett Graff will for a long time be a material of reference to all those invloved in campaign planning and public relations.

12/14/2007

Smoking

 

 

The pressure group droit des non furmeurs inserted an advertisement in the 11 december issue of Direct Soir. The ad is illustrated with the photo of a boy smoking a stick of cigarette on the other end of the filter with this headline: non smokers are on the worst side of smoking. With this sign off message  there are 4000 chemical elements in a cigarette and 5o of these elements can cause the cancer. The advertisement is very simple and the message is penetrating.