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I’m sure most of you have heard of the recent instance of JC Penney’s new line-up of T-shirts, which landed the brand on the RidicuList (http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/09/01/ac-ridiculist-jcpenney.cnn). The story is worth attention as it tackles three important elements that a big brand, such as JC Penney should have given better consideration: 1.   Brand image 2.   Corporate social responsibility [...]

Japan’s tragedy, the next real global crisis after the BP Horizon oil spill, is on everyone’s mind at the moment. It’s all over the news and your friends and family are probably googling “Chernobyl” and “thyroid gland cancer in neighboring countries” obsessively. From a PR perspective, BP’s ex-CEO Tony Hayward’s response to the oil spill [...]

Paul Holmes – founder and Editor-In-Chief of The Holmes Report – gave a talk at the Beirut PR Forum earlier this month which was so entirely bang on that I couldn’t even live tweet it, I could only sit there and absorb every word. In my world, this is a rarity. While he covered a [...]

Over the past few days, I have been doing a lot of reading on crisis communications management. The main thing that has caught my attention is the manner in which brands either stand up or hide from the media in times of crisis. Or better still feed the hungry beast, as David Letterman did. Stand [...]

Toyota’s back on course, but damage control an uphill battle was one of the story headlines in ragan.com, with footage of the interview of Toyota’s head of U.S. operations, Jim Lentz on NBC’s The Today Show. International news today shows that Toyota is definitely not back on course with the news of some of its cars [...]

On Tuesday 8th March, International Women’s Day (http://www.internationalwomensday.com) was celebrated around the world.  Flowers or other presents were given by family, friends co-workers and by companies, National Holidays ...