ICCO invites consultancies and networks with an international agenda to join as Direct Members

APCO

Company Name: APCO
Contact Name: Paula Bradley
Address: 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20004
United States
Phone Number: +1.202.778.1000
Website: www.apcoworldwide.com

About APCO

In a rapidly evolving global context and a time of transformational change, APCO provides valuable support to our clients’ enterprises while benefiting society. Through compelling narratives and creative solutions, APCO enables clients to achieve their objectives effectively and efficiently.

Operating responsibly is at the top of APCO’s priorities. Our teams across the globe uphold strong ethics and integrity, ensuring adherence to standards of good governance and financial stewardship. Furthermore, APCO actively supports local communities and diligently manage our environmental footprint. We are committed to operating in compliance with local laws in all markets they serve, while also adhering to industry codes of conduct as signatories. By striving to meet stakeholder expectations, our aim is to engage with clients who share our high standards of integrity and accountability.

With APCO, you can expect a professional and principled partner dedicated to adding value to your enterprise in an ever-changing landscape.

Grayling

Company Name: Grayling
Contact Name: Sarah Schoefield
Address: 29 – 35 Lexington Street
London
W1F 9AH
United Kingdom
Phone Number: 020 7025 7500
Website: www.grayling.com

About Grayling

Our international reach enables us to provide fully integrated communications across every major market. Our local presence allows us to create effective, bespoke programmes in every region.

From the global citizen to the local community, we integrate our activities and we influence.

Grayling is committed to delivering the highest standard of communications services to our clients, through effective use of data-driven insight, creativity and experience. Armed with powerful ideas we execute across multiple channels and devices, worldwide, at unprecedented speed. We describe this as the Grayling Effect.

Our clients operate in a wide range of sectors including Energy, Environment & Sustainability; Healthcare; Technology & Telecommunications; Consumer Brands; Financial Services; Transport & Logistics and Government & Public Sector. Leveraging our network of highly qualified and experienced consultants ensures our work across sectors and geographies is always exceptional.

Hill + Knowlton Strategies

Company Name: Hill+Knowlton Strategies
Contact Name: Simon Whitehead
Address: The Buckley Building
49 Clerkenwell Green
London
EC1R 0EB
United Kingdom
Phone Number: 020 7413 3000
Fax Number: 020 7413 3111
Website: www.hkstrategies.co.uk

About Hill+Knowlton Strategies

H+K Strategies UK works to improve every one of our client’s brand value, reputation and bottom line. We do this by creating insight driven, narrative content delivered through multiple channels. Our work shapes conversations and educates on issues. We directly engage audiences to drive advocacy, inspire action, mobilise constituents and mitigate reputational risk.
H+K Strategies has more than 200 years combined experience working in the media, agencies, and as clients in-house. They lead 230+ of the brightest and best people in our business to provide clients with clear strategic advice, standout creative ideas, and outstanding results. In 2010 we became the first (and are still the only) large UK agency to organise ourselves around industry sectors, providing our clients with deep knowledge into their industry alongside a breadth of service expertise. Sectors we specialise in range from consumer packaged goods, energy + industrials, financial + professional services to food + drink, retail + leisure, public + third sector, sports and technology. Each sector team includes corporate and consumer communications, digital and social media, government affairs, stakeholder communications and issues and crisis management. A fully integrated approach that ensures our clients’ programmes can have maximum impact. Our client satisfaction is 92%.

Ogilvy

Company Name: Ogilvy
Contact Name: Joanna Oosthuizen, Ogilvy and WPP Team Leader
Address: Sea Containers, 18 Upper Ground, London SE1 9RQ
Phone Number: +44(0)20 3193 3000
Website: www.ogilvy.com

About Ogilvy

Here at Ogilvy we pride ourselves on the ethos CAN meets DO.

Clients come to us with a broad range of  business challenges and problems and we formulate a specialist team around them to transform their business. This isn’t just about coming up with great ideas, it’s the execution, the measurement and the ability to start a conversation around these ideas that place our clients ahead of their competitors. Our building has been designed to ensure  teams are fluid, 100% agile and can be combined in an infinite way to best suit our clients’ needs. These bespoke teams are formed from experts across the marketing field;  PR, Content Creation, Video Production, SEO, Customer Engagement & Advertising, all sharing in the Ogilvy culture – no warring tribes.

We couple our ability to dream up big ideas with a commitment to delivery, our bespoke teams share a common operating system that runs right across every discipline and every specialism- when we say we DO it means we deliver across all channels, fast.  Our collaborative way of working has been designed to extend prototyping from products to all kinds of creative ideas, from all corners of the agency. Born from the desire to ‘think & do simultaneously’, Makerspace provides the opportunity for ideas to be brought to life through products, content, experiences, films & apps – & furthermore tested & given feedback on, in house early in the creative process. With the relationship between making & creating at the helm of Makerspace, clients are given the opportunity to capitalize on culturally relevant ideas with minimal downtime.

We are always open to conversations about new challenges – whether that’s within the UK or across the globe with 538 offices, over a third in the BRIC countries, we are ready to help you expand wherever you need or want to. And you can find out more about our network here.

If you would like to know more about where CAN meets DO get in touch.

Weber Shandwick

Company Name: Weber Shandwick
Address: 2 Waterhouse Square
140 Holborn
London
EC1N 2AE
Phone Number: +44 20 7067 0000
Website: www.webershandwick.com

About Weber Shandwick:

Weber Shandwick is a leading global communications and engagement firm in 79 cities across 34 countries, with a network extending to 127 cities in 81 countries. The firm’s diverse team of strategists, analysts, producers, designers, developers and campaign activators has won the most prestigious awards in the world for innovative, creative approaches and impactful work. Weber Shandwick was the only public relations agency included on the Ad Age Agency A-list in 2014 and 2015 and the only PR firm designated an A-List Standout in 2017.

Weber Shandwick was honoured as PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015 and 2016, The Holmes Report’s Global Agency of the Year in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2015 and The Holmes Report’s Global Digital Agency of the Year in 2016. The firm deploys deep expertise across sectors and specialty areas, including consumer services, corporate social responsibility, financial communications and crisis management, using propriety social, digital and analytics methodologies.

Twitter: @WS_EMEA

thenetworkone

Company Name: thenetworkone
Address: 3rd Floor, 48 Beak Street
Soho, London W1F 9RL
Website:  www.thenetworkone.com

thenetworkone provides customized networks of independent agencies for a growing number of leading international companies. Clients have included Alliance Boots, Audi, Bacardi, Dyson, Exxon Mobil, Honda, Johnson & Johnson, Lego, Lufthansa, Nokia, Prudential Asia, Rosetta Stone and Technogym.

thenetworkone also helps independent agency networks and individual firms to develop their own business, through providing international partners, resources and professional development programs.

thenetworkone now works with more than 800 individually accredited marketing and communications agencies in 106 countries, including more than 200 PR firms; as well as a growing number of independent agency networks.

In 2012, thenetworkone was the Founding Sponsor of the Independent PR Firms Forum at the Holmes Global PR Summit in Miami and in 2015 became a Founding Member of the ICCO Direct membership program.

PROI Worldwide

Company Name: PROI Worldwide
Contact Name: Jeff Altheide, Global Managing Director
Address: 125 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 2600
Chicago, IL 60606
Phone Number: +1 847-712-9150
Website: www.proi.com

About PROI Worldwide

PROI Worldwide harnesses the collective power of the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurial communications firms. By sharing global insights and best practices, PROI agencies remain best in market trendsetters, supporting the drive to deliver the most impactful communications campaigns for their clients. In 2020, PROI encompassed 80 partners with 6,900 employees in more than 165 cities and 55 countries. With combined revenue of more than US$913 million, PROI ranked 5th among consolidated communications groups, and was the only one that is based on a unique partnership of independent business people.

ICCO invites consultancies and networks with an international agenda to join as Direct Members