More BME PR practitioners – and one BME Prime Minister
July 26th - 2010
by Gabriel St Aimee, Intern at Northern Lights PR Without intending to evangelise, PR is needed for the BME community, not just for diversi...
Stephen Martin, CEO Clugston Group
Stephen Martin, CEO of the Clugston Group, filmed a new Channel 4 reality TV programme “Undercover Boss”. Northern Lights were appointed to maximise the PR potential. We created a campaign to position Clugston as a leader in the construction and logistics sector – to support winning tenders - and ensure that media coverage was not a one-week flash but had life long before and after the series finished.

Media coverage ranged from a feature in the FT, all the main trade publications, regional TV and radio and business magazines such as HR Director. Business benefits include being asked to joint venture with a major developer; to speak at Lancaster House to business leaders and by Prince Charles to discuss corporate social responsibility in construction.