Cantos

Cantos produces corporate videos. It is owned by Brunswick Group and the CEO is Lucy Parker. Lucy Parker is the brother of Alan Parker of Brunswick, and a former TV documentary producer 'who chairs corporate imaging company Trinity Management'[1].

It was launched in 2001 :

"The new communications channel for corporates and institutional investors has been developed by a newly formed company, Cantos Communications. Backed by Cazenove, the UK broker, and Brunswick, a UK financial communications group, the web-based service will initially focus on European companies."(Financial News of May 21, 2001)

Cantos sponsored the 6th annual conference of the Institute of Economic Affairs in February 2005 and Parker addressed the conference on pensions.[2]

Address and phone number

Cantos Communications Ltd 16, Lincoln's Inn Fields Holborn London WC2A 3ED Tel: 020 7936 1333

This is the same address as Brunswick

According to the Financial Times (July 3, 2001):

"What it is without the spin is PR TV. It is a video service for chief executives. Rather than have their message filtered through journalists or analysts, CEOs can have Cantos Communications, which is part owned by Brunswick and Cazenove, the investment bank, make a video of them or other senior staff addressing the main issues facing

the company. Cantos will give investors, analysts and journalists the chance to see the CEO, with sleeves rolled up in his or her natural habitat, telling it like it is - without interruption, distortion or heckling. The video clip can then be distributed over the internet or in tape form to people who want a piece of the average chief executive, but get little or no "face-time".

"It has produced 12 paid-for "in depth videos" for eight clients,

including Invensys, the industrial group, and Safeway, Mothercare and WH Smith, the retail groups. There are about 45 staff."