Hanmer & Partners bags a slew of new accounts

Televisionpoint.com Correspondent
Hanmer & Partners Communications has bagged the Public Relations mandates for a slew of top corporate clients over the past 3 months. In all, Hanmer Public Relations has won 40 new mandates in the quarter, which went by.

Some of the notable wins including those accounts won in multi-agency pitches include Aviva Offshore Services, Breadtalk Group Ltd., Emirates Airlines, Enam Securities Pvt. Ltd., General Motors India Pvt. Ltd., Global Broadcast News Ltd. (CNN-IBN), Indian Institute of Management (IIM - Lucknow), LG's IT & GSM Business, LifeCell, Optimix Asset Management Company (An ING Company), Sahara Aamby Valley Lake City & Starcom MediaVest.

Hanmer & Partners is already working as the public relations agency for prestigious clients such as Nirma, Kinetic Motor Company, CNBC-TV18, LG Electronics, Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Company Ltd, Gujarat Ambuja Cements Limited, Goodlass Nerolac, Mudra Communications, Western Union Money Transfer, HDFC Mutual Fund, Baume & Mercier, Discovery Network, Star Gold, Star Utsav and SpiceJet Ltd, amongst others.

Over the part few years, Hanmer & Partners has set up several strategic initiatives thereby bringing together, on a single platter, a range of services being a first in the country for a Public Relations Consultancy. In addition to Hanmer Public Relations which continues to be the core business and will remain so, Hanmer Interactive, the Digital communication division was launched in 2004. Hanmer Reach, India's first regional PR network (also in 2004), which is now active in 20 cities and adds to the already existing 11-city network.

Hanmer Events, which today is a profitable events & promotions division conceptualizing and delivering events across the length and breadth of India and soon overseas, came into existence in 2002. And finally Hanmer Advertising, a full service, fully accredited Advertising Agency which was run under a different name until recently when the Hanmer & Partners Management team decided to \"dub\" all brands Hanmer and bring them under a common umbrella which finally happened in the autumn of 2005.

Speaking about this meteoric rise, Sunil Gautam, Managing Director, Hanmer & Partners evinces "Within a short span of six years, we have notched up an impressive list of clients across various practices. Today, we work with some of the world's best and India's leading corporate entities. It is to the team's credit that Hanmer & Partners is among the fastest growing Public Relations Consultancies in India today."

Hanmer & Partners, with a presence in 31 cities in India, offers a bouquet of services including strategic counseling, corporate image management, brand support, financial public relations, events and promotions, and crisis communications, apart from media relations.

The company is also the sole affiliate of Manning, Selvage & Lee, US, (part of the Publicis Group) which is one of the leading global public relation firms, and has an alliance with advertising firms Saatchi & Saatchi, Ambience Publicis, Publicis India, Mudra Communications and Network Advertising.