Regester Larkin
Regester Larkin is a London-based PR firm. According to its website, 'Businesses are operating in an environment of unprecedented scepticism, risk aversion and lack of trust. This is compounded by a 24/7 media, the Internet and sophisticated anti-business and anti-technology activism.' [3]
It helps companies meet this challenge via its 'specialist reputation management consultancy'. It has helped 'some of the world's largest companies successfully manage internal and external issues and crises ranging from accidents and fires to sustained NGO campaigns and intrusive media attention.' Its website at one point featured an image of ears of corn alongside an oil platform, a chemical works and a paper headed 'HAZARDOUS WASTE'.
Clients
Among the clients which Regester Larkin has helped to defend their corporate reputations are Aventis CropScience, Aventis Pharma, Bayer Inc and Pfizer - a major advocate of biotechnology.[4]Regester Larkin is also listed as having 'worked with' SmithKline Beecham, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, and ICI. [5]
Another client is the BioIndustry Association. Regester Larkin Ltd was also previously listed as member of the BioIndustry Association: 'the authoritative voice of UK biotechnology' whose motto is 'Promoting UK biotechnology'.[6] According to the BioIndustry Association's Director of Public Affairs, 'Regester Larkin's workshops on managing risk issues are invaluable for developing appropriate communication strategies.'
2006
In August 2006 Regester Larkin stated it had 'helped some of the world's largest companies prepare for and respond to difficult issues and crises. Our current portfolio of clients includes FTSE 100 companies in the oil and gas industry, public utilities, travel, pharmaceutical and telecommunications sectors. Our services are also retained by government departments, non-departmental public bodies and local authorities.listed the following as having been clients'.[7] Regester Larkin specifically listed the following:
Cable & Wireless | Kodak UK | Vodafone | BioIndustry Association | Shell Chemicals | Shell Renewables | TOTAL (UK Ltd) | BG Group | Vizzavi Europe | BG International | Interoute Telecommunications | AOL UK[7]
2008
In December 2008 Regester Larkin noted that: 'For issues of confidentiality we are unable to provide a complete list of our clients. However, below is a sample of some of the organisations that use our reputation management services.'
3M | Air Products | American Airlines | Association of Colleges | BAA | Baxter Healthcare | BBC | BG Group | BHP Billiton | The British Library | BT | Burger King | Church of England | ExxonMobil | Financial Services Authority | General Motors | Hess | Karachaganak Petroleum Operating | London & Quadrant Housing Trust | MySpace | National Grid | Nestle Middle East | Nexen | OMV | Petro-Canada | Pinsent Masons | Premier Oil | Qualifications & Curriculum Authority | RSA | Schering Plough | Shell | South Eastern Trains | Standard Chartered Bank | The Crown Estate | Tetley Group | Thames Water | Total | TUI Travel PLC | Xstrata | Yorkshire Water | [8]
People
Among Regester Larkin's former employees are Tracey Brown, the director of the controversial pro-GM lobby group Sense About Science, Ellen Raphael who also went on to work for Sense About Science, and Harry Swan who joined Regester Larkin from Monsanto. Swan's staff profile read, 'Working for Monsanto at the height of the controversy surrounding GMOs, Harry gained firsthand experience of crisis and issues management. He built up an expertise in scientific communication which he now applies to clients such as the BioIndustry Association.'
Regester Larkin was co-founded by Mike Regester and Judy Larkin in 1994. Larkin's experience includes working for Bayer, British Nuclear Fuels Limited and Shell. Larkin is a 'former head of corporate relations for Logica plc', and has held board level positions with a number of major UK and US consultancies and has worked extensively in Europe, the United States and Australasia. [9][10] She is a board member of the Washington DC-based Issue Management Council whose members include Bivings Group, AstraZeneca, and GlaxoSmithKline. Its 'partners' include Shell and the Philip Morris Management Corporation.[11]
Judy Larkin is also a Fellow of the Royal Institution (RI). In July 2000 she took part in 'Interrogating the Precautionary Principle [12], an Institute of Ideas event at the Royal Institution. This was billed as: 'eminent scientists, social scientists and writers will question the premises of the precautionary principle'. The event was 'convened' by Susan Greenfield of the RI, and Tony Gilland and Helene Guldberg of the LM network. Tracey Brown and Ellen Raphael who went on to work for Regester Larkin both contributed to LM and are part of the LM network, as is the Institute of Ideas.
Former Monsanto man Harry Swan, when a Risk Management Consultant for Regester Larkin, represented the company at a Science Media Centre meeting at the RI.[13]
Contact
- Website: http://www.regesterlarkin.com/
- Regester Larkin Energy: http://www.regesterlarkinenergy.com/
Notes
- ↑ Retrieved from the Regester Larkin Website on 2 May 2011, http://www.regesterlarkin.com/
- ↑ Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 7 August 2003 http://replay.web.archive.org/20020807002303/http://www.regesterlarkin.com/
- ↑ Regester Larkin
- ↑ Regester Larkin, Clients
- ↑ Regester Larkin, Krisennavigator - Institut für Krisenforschung
- ↑ members
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Regester Larkin Clients, Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 26 August 2006 on 2 May 2011
- ↑ Regester Larkin clients, Retrieved from the Internet archive of 21 December 2008 on 2 may 2011
- ↑ Regester Larkin, Judy Larkin, Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 26 August 2006 on 2 May 2011
- ↑ Nuclear Industry Association Judy Larkin | Wednesday, 02 August 2006, Director, Regester Larkin
- ↑ members
- ↑ Future Foundation Interrogating the Precautionary Principle Friday 14 July 2000, The Royal Institution of Great Britain , Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 4 March 2003 on 1 May 2011
- ↑ Science Media Centre, About Us: Risk
