2008 Programme

Below is the 2008 programme. Whilst the majority of these dates will be at the City Marketing Suite, there will be some variations, so please check the venue and also the timing – there are both evening and lunchtime events. Please also ensure that you book your place before the meeting to ensure that any changes in the programme can be advised, and for security reasons your details are listed.

• Tuesday 14 October Speaker Lunch
  Damian Reece, Head of Business,The Telegraph – ICAEW
  


• Tuesday 11 November Speaker Lunch
  David Wighton, Times Business Editor - ICAEW
  
  
• Wednesday 19 November
  Annual Dinner – Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times – St Stephen's Club

For further information, please contact sueowen@corporate-financial.com or visit http://www.corporate-financial.com where links to a booking form will appear when available.

C+FG lunch Tuesday 11 November

David Wighton, Business and City Editor, The Times

Venue: ICAEW

David Wighton became business and city editor of The Times in March of this year. His early career was spent at the Investors Chronicle and the Daily Telegraph reporting on companies. He then moved to the Financial Times where he stayed for 14 years. He started there as a reporter on UK company news, then reported on utilities and later politics. He became UK companies editor in 2000 and the following year financial news editor. In 2002, he moved to New York to take up the post of US News Editor and in 2004 became New York Bureau Chief and US banking editor.

This meeting will take place at 12.30pm (sandwich lunch will be served) for 1 o'clock on 11 November at the ICAEW - Chartered Accountants' Hall, One Moorgate Place, EC2R 6EA.

To book a place, please click here for an application form or contact Sue Owen at sueowen@corporate-financial.com.

C+FG Annual Dinner, Wednesday 19 November 2008
Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times

We are delighted that Financial Times Editor Lionel Barber has accepted our invitation to speak at our Annual Dinner on Wednesday 19 November at St Stephen’s Club, 34 Queen Anne’s Gate,  London SW1H 9AB at 6.45pm for 7.30pm.  Dress is lounge suits.

Lionel Barber was appointed editor of the Financial Times in November 2005. Since then he has maintained the circulation of the paper against a background of declining sales of the broadsheets and he has built up readership and income for the website.

Before taking over as editor, he was the Financial Times' US managing editor, based in New York, with responsibility for the US edition, and for all US news on FT.com. Prior to the move to the US he was the editor of the FT's Continental European edition (2000-2002) news editor (1998-2000), Brussels bureau chief (1992-1998), and both Washington correspondent and US editor (1986-1992).

Lionel Barber began his career in journalism in 1978 as a reporter for The Scotsman. In 1981, he moved to The Sunday Times, where he was a business correspondent.
He has written several books and has lectured widely on US foreign policy, transatlantic relations, European security and monetary union in the US and Europe. He graduated from Oxford University with a joint honours degree in German and modern history.

Individual guests are most welcome at £85 each or tables of 10 are available at £850.  The price includes a half bottle of wine per head; further bottles of wine can be purchased.  Places are limited and we expect the event to be a sell-out, so please apply quickly. To book a place, please click here for an application form or contact Sue Owen at sueowen@corporate-financial.com.

Calendar for 2008

• Tuesday 14 October Speaker Lunch – Damian Reece, Head of Business,The Telegraph – ICAEW
• Tuesday 11 November Speaker Lunch – David Wighton, Times Business Editor - ICAEW
• Wednesday 19 November – Annual Dinner – Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times – St Stephen's Club

For updated information and booking forms, see http://www.corporate-financial.com or contact Sue Owen sueowen@corporate-financial.com ; 01483 771932; 2 Greenways, Pembroke Road, Woking, Surrey GU22 7DY.

Past events

C+FG lunch Tuesday 14 October

Damian Reece, Head of Business, The Telegraph Group

Venue: ICAEW

We are delighted to welcome as our lunchtime speaker on 14 October, Damian Reece, the Telegraph Group’s Head of Business, a job that was created a year ago, and which covers the Daily, Sunday and website.

Damian has spent much of his career at the Telegraph Group having been Deputy then City Editor at the daily paper. He had previously worked for seven years at the Sunday Telegraph covering personal finance and consumer industries. He also had spells as City Editor of The Independent and at Sunday Business.

He wrote the Sunday Telegraph Guide to Family Finance (1996) and has won various awards including Business Journalist of the Year (Fast Moving Consumer Goods), Personal Finance Journalist of the Year, Trade Journalist of the Year and Technical Unit Trust Journalist of the Year. He started in journalism in trade and personal finance magazines.

The meeting will take place at 12.30pm (sandwich lunch will be served) for 1pm on 14 October at the ICAEW, Chartered Accountants' Hall, One Moorgate Place, EC2R 6EA.

To book a place, please click here for an application form or contact Sue Owen at sueowen@corporate-financial.com.

C+FG Speaker Lunch – Julian Bailey, Multi Media Editor, BBC Business Editor and Economic News

Venue: City Conference Centre, 80 Coleman Street, London EC2R 5BJ (new venue)
Time: 12.30pm (sandwich lunch will be served) for 1 o'clock
Cost: £15 members; £20 non members

We are delighted that Julian Bailey, Multi Media Editor, BBC Business and Economic News, our guest speaker at the lunchtime meeting on Tuesday 8 July.

The meeting will be held at the City Conference Centre, 80 Coleman Street, London EC2R 5BJ, at 12.30pm for 1pm and will finish by 2pm. Sandwiches will be provided.

The BBC re-structured its news services earlier this year in order to integrate further news across television, radio and the website. Julian Bailey will talk about how best to sell business and economic news stories into the BBC in the new era to maximise exposure across the networks. He will cover how we should approach the BBC, what the BBC is looking for from its business and economics news stories and future plans for BBC Business and Economic News.

Before taking on his present job, Julian worked as Editor – Radio Programmes in the Business and Economics Unit.  Last year he was nominated for the Business Journalist of the Year Awards, Best Broadcast Feature. The previous year he won the Business Journalist of the Year Award in the “breaking news” category for his programme on the demise of Rover. In 2005, he won a silver Sony Radio Award for News Programme of the Year for producing Weekend Business: the Battle for Marks & Spencer.

For details of the Corporate + Financial Group's lunch time speaker meetings and other events, visit
www.corporate-financial.com or email sueowen@corporate-financial.com

You can download a form and information for the speaker lunches from http://www.corporate-financial.com/events/speaker.html

Annual summer party

Venue: St James's Square Gardens, CIPR 32 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4JR
Time: 6.30-8.30PM
Refreshments - Drinks Reception and Canapés

The Corporate + Financial Group Summer Party is a rare opportunity for the industry to meet informally on a large scale. We are delighted that this year's C+FG Summer Party will be held in the unique St James's Square Gardens at the CIPR. Come and enjoy a glass of wine in the relaxed gathering of the PR community and their guests.

Guests at the Summer Party will this year be able to enjoy a complimentary 6 months temporary membership of the CIPR Corporate + Financial Group.

Cost: Corporate + Financial Group members £25 each, All other attendees £35 each

Please return all acceptances, payable to 'CIPR Corporate + Financial Group' and mail to: Sue Owen, Corporate + Financial Group, 2 Greenways, Pembroke Road, Woking, Surrey, GU22 7DY. Please include the name of attendee, company, and contact address, email and phone number

Tel/Fax 01483 771932: E-mail: sueowen@corporate-financial.com : http://www.corporate-financial.com

Booking forms can be found at http://www.corporate-financial.com The Corporate + Financial Group are grateful to both VMA Group Search and Selection and Precise Media for sponsorship of the event

Understanding the tools needed to respond to Internet Crisis

Discussion led by Ashley Hurst, Associate, Media Litigation Group, Olswang

The Corporate and Financial Group is hosting a discussion on the tools PR professionals need to understand in order to respond to internet crisis. Given how easy it is now for negative campaigns or slurs on companies/individuals on social networking websites, blogs and internet discussion forums, it is becoming increasingly important for PR professionals to have a thorough understanding of the legal issues involved before embarking on PR strategy and tactics.
 
The discussion will be led by Ashley Hurst, Associate in the Media Litigation Group at Olswang, who will share a legal perspective with us. Mr Hurst specialises in dispute resolution in the media sector, focusing on defamation, privacy, breach of confidence and image rights.

This meeting will take place at 12.30pm (sandwich lunch will be served) for 1 o'clock on 13 May 2008 at the City Marketing Suite, Basinghall Street London EC2.

The cost of the meeting is £15 per head for members and £20 for non C+FG members. Please note that it is not possible for us to accept reservations by telephone. You must reply, with payment as soon as possible. If you cannot draw a company cheque in time, please send a personal one. Entry may be refused to those who have not paid. Please note we do not issue confirmation of booking or invoices; if a receipt is required it will be emailed.

For security reasons the name, position and company of your guests must be completed.
For details of the Corporate + Financial Group's lunch time speaker meetings, contact Sue Owen, 2 Greenways, Pembroke Road, Woking, Surrey GU22 7DY  Telephone: 01483 771932 
Email sueowen@corporate-financial.com or for information and booking forms please visit http://www.corporate-financial.com

CIPR Corporate + Financial Group lunch time meeting 12 February 2008

Venue: City Marketing Suite, Basinghall Street London
Date: Tuesday 12 February 2008
Speaker: Alex Brummer, City Editor, Daily Mail

Alex Brummer has been City Editor for the Daily Mail since 2000. During his 30 years’ experience working in the media, he has won over eight awards which include the World Forum Leadership Forum Business Journalist of the Year and Commentator of the Year in 2006 as well as the 2002 Worldwork Media Awards Newspaper Journalist of the Year. He has written biographies of Lord Hanson and Lord Weinstock. He is a regular panellist and speaker including the BBC Financial World This Week and at Jewish events.

Alex Brummer started his media career at J Walter Thomson and Haymarket Publishing between 1970 and 1972. He then went to work for the Guardian as the Financial Correspondent. He was the main reporter on the fringe banking crisis of 1973/4 and the 1976 sterling crisis. After six years in this position he became the US Financial and Washington Correspondent for the Guardian. He then took up positions as a Foreign Editor and Financial Editor and completed his 26 year tenure at the Guardian as Associate Editor. He worked as Consultant Editor for the Financial Mail on Sunday between 1999 and 2000. Sponsored by Hanson Search

Follow this link for a booking form .

For details of the Corporate + Financial Group's lunch time speaker meetings, contact Sue Owen, 2 Greenways, Pembroke Road, Woking, Surrey GU22 7DY Telephone: 01483 771932 
Email sueowen@corporate-financial.com or visit http://www.corporate-financial.com

The next event will be the evening event at Olswang on 12 March. 
Details of our events can be found on our website when available http://www.corporate-financial.com

CIPR Corporate + Financial Group Speaker Lunch

Andrew Hill is City Editor of the Financial Times and Editor of the Lombard column. He joined the FT in 1988 as a UK companies reporter, and has been a Brussels correspondent, Milan correspondent, Foreign News Editor and Deputy Foreign Editor. From September 1999 until July 2003, he was the FT's New York Bureau Chief, US Business Editor and a member of the paper's US editorial board.

Whilst in New York, he was a regular speaker on business reporting at the NYU School of Journalism.

This year he was short listed for the London Press Club Annual Awards Business Journalist of the Year and a Nominee for Best Commentator at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards. His article 'The decline and fall of the cult of equity' was included in the 2003 book 'The Best Business Stories of the Year'.

Details of our events can be found on our website when available www.corporate-financial.com. Please note that it is not possible for us to accept reservations by telephone. You must reply, with payment as soon as possible. If you cannot draw a company cheque in time, please send a personal one. Entry may be refused to those who have not paid. Please note we do not issue confirmation of booking or invoices; if a receipt is required it will be emailed. 

For security reasons the name, position and company of your guests must be completed. 

There shall also be an Annual Dinner on 6th November at The Commonwealth Club with guest speaker Evan Davis, BBC Economics Editor. There are still some places available, but going fast.

Venue: City Marketing Suite, Basinghall Street London EC2

Time: 12.30pm (sandwich lunch will be served) for 1pm

Contact: email: sueowen@corporate-financial; tel 01483 771932

CIPR Corporate + Financial Group Annual Dinner

Time: 6.45pm for 7.30pm

Venue:The Commonwealth Club, 25 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5AP

The CIPR Corporate + Financial Group is delighted to announce that BBC Economics Editor, Evan Davis, has accepted our invitation to speak at our annual dinner on Tuesday 6 November. The dinner will be held at The Commonwealth Club, 25 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5AP, at 6.45pm for 7.30pm. Dress is lounge suits.

Evan Davis was appointed as the BBC’s Economics Editor in October 2001. He is responsible for reporting and analysing economic developments on a range of programmes on BBC radio and television particularly the Ten O’clock News and the Today Programme. In his blog, Evanomics, he discusses subjects ranging from road pricing, care for the elderly, the Budget and how to choose wine. Previously he was the economics editor for Newsnight.  Before joining the BBC he worked with the Institute of Fiscal Studies and London Business School. He has won many awards including Business Journalist of the Year, Best Communicator and the Harold Wincott Business Broadcaster of the Year award. He is also well known for his appearances as a presenter on Dragons’ Den and The Bottom Line.

Mani Pillai, C+FG chairman, and the C+FG Committee

For further information, see www.corporate-financial.com or contact

Lunch Time Meeting

Time: 12.30pm for 1pm

Venue: City Marketing Suite, Basinghall Street London EC2

Marcus Wright, Dow Jones Newswires, and Emily Nelson, The Wall Street Journal Europe

We are delighted that, for our lunch-time event on 9 October, Marcus Wright and Emily Nelson are able to do a Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal Europe “double-act”. Marcus, senior editor, Dow Jones Newswires EMEA, will talk about the workings of the newswire; while Emily, London bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, will talk about the Journal from the perspective of the London office. They will also cover the inter-relationship between the two news operations.

Following a long career with Dow Jones, Marcus moved into his current post last year. As well as London, he has worked for Dow Jones Newswires in New York, Bahrain and Singapore and was previously senior editor for the Asia Pacific region. Emily took on her current role earlier this year, having previously been The Wall Street Journal's deputy bureau chief in London. Before moving here in 2004, she spent nine years with the Journal in the US.

This meeting will take place at 12.30pm (sandwich lunch will be served) for 1 o'clock on 9 October 2007 in the City Marketing Suite, Basinghall Street London EC2.

C+FG guest speaker, Alex Brummer, City Editor, Daily Mail

Venue: Venue: City Marketing Suite, Basinghall Street, London EC2

Alex Brummer has been City Editor for the Daily Mail since 2000. During his 30 years’ experience working in the media, he has won over eight awards which include the World Forum Leadership Forum Business Journalist of the Year and Commentator of the Year in 2006 as well as the 2002 Worldwork Media Awards Newspaper Journalist of the Year. He has written biographies of Lord Hanson and Lord Weinstock. He is a regular panelist and speaker including the BBC Financial World This Week and at Jewish events.

Alex Brummer started his media career at J Walter Thomson and Haymarket Publishing between 1970 and 1972. He then went to work for the Guardian as the Financial Correspondent. He was the main reporter on the fringe banking crisis of 1973/4 and the 1976 sterling crisis. After six years in this position he became the US Financial and Washington Correspondent for the Guardian. He then took up positions as a Foreign Editor and Financial Editor and completed his 26 year tenure at the Guardian as Associate Editor. He worked as Consultant Editor for the Financial Mail on Sunday between 1999 and 2000.

C+FG Annual Summer Party

Venue: St James's Square Gardens, CIPR, 32 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4JR

The Corporate + Financial Group Summer Party is a rare opportunity for the industry to meet informally on a large scale. We are delighted that this year's C+FG Summer Party will be held in the unique St James's Square Gardens at the CIPR. Come and enjoy a glass of wine in the relaxed gathering of the PR community and their guests. Guests at the Summer Party will be able to enjoy a complimentary 6 months temporary membership of the CIPR Corporate + Financial Group.

The Corporate + Financial Group are grateful to VMA Group Search and Selection for sponsorship of the event.

VMA Group - Leading the Search for Talent in Corporate & Financial PR
For the last three decades VMA Group has led the way in Communications + PR recruitment across the markets. Our Corporate and Financial Services practices are growing their teams with the appointment of highly talented consultants, whilst our new office in Manchester is quickly becoming the leader in Communications recruitment in the North of England. Our VMA Search practice continues to offer a unique specialist search service, unrivalled in the market. For more information, please see our website: www.vmagroup.co.uk

C+FG Evening Event - Lord Chadlington

Venue: Vantis, 66 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2HQ

Lord Chadlington has for many years been instrumental in leading the growth of the UK PR industry. As Peter Gummer, he founded Shandwick and built it into one of the premier global financial and corporate PR firms, then sold the company and started all over again with Huntsworth, which he has built into a £225m market cap business in less than 6 years. A lifelong PR practitioner, Peter Chadlington has been at the centre of business and political events for over twenty years, helping a range of companies achieve their communications objectives while creating his own, hugely successful, business model.

A member of the C&FG's advisory board, Lord Chadlington will talk about the opportunities and difficulties of running a public company in PR and will show how he has built Huntsworth, which today is a world class communications group with public relations at its core, global in scale but rooted in domestic excellence.

CIPR Corporate + Financial Group and PR Newswire Meet the Media event

Tuesday 24 April 2007,

Venue: Gladstone Library, One Whitehall Place, Whitehall, London SW1A 2HD
Speaker: Julia Finch, City Editor, The Guardian

The purpose of our Meet the Media events are to put you in front of key media contacts to find out how their respective publications work. Provide you with an insight into their specialist areas, give advice on achieving coverage and inform you on effective targeting of journalists within their sector.

PR Newswire and CIPR Corporate + Financial Group are excited to announce our guest speaker for this event will be Julia Finch, City Editor, The Guardian. Julia will be talking about the paper, and what PR Newswire clients should be doing to attract their attention.

Julia attended the London School of Economics, where she completed a Bsc Economics with Honours.

She worked at the Daily Express from 1987 - 1997. Positions held include: Personal Finance Editor; Deputy City Editor and Women's Editor. During her time at the Daily Express, she was awarded the title of Personal Finance Journalist of the Year (1991).

In 1997, Julia moved to the Guardian as a financial reporter, and has since filled the position of City Editor.

C+FG and PR Newswire joint Event

PR Newswire and the CIPR Corporate + Financial Group Meet the Media event

Venue: Gladstone Library, One Whitehall Place, Whitehall, London SW1A 2HD
Speaker: Michael Wilson, Business Editor of Sky News

Our Meet the Media events put you in front of key media contacts to find out how their respective publications work, provide you with an insight into their specialist areas, give advice on achieving coverage and inform you on effective targeting of journalists within their sector.

PR Newswire and CIPR Corporate + Financial Group are excited to announce our guest speaker for this event will be Michael Wilson, Business Editor of Sky News, Britain's award-winning 24-hour news channel.

Michael originally joined Sky Television in 1989. In 1992 he left to present GMTV's early morning news and business hour. He then returned to Sky as Business Editor in 1995, and launched Sky Business Report, the news channel's daily evening money programme. Since then he has anchored nearly all of Sky's coverage of major business events - from Budget specials to market crashes.

Michael has a long pedigree in news, business and current affairs. Before Sky he was a reporter and presenter on Thames TV's flagship This Week and in 1987 he helped found Thames ' award-winning The City Programme, where he worked as a reporter and main presenter.

In the 1990s he also presented London News Radio's Breakfast Show and helped launch Reuters Financial Television.

C+FG Speaker Lunch

Venue: City Marketing Suite, Basinghall Street, London EC2
Speaker: Lawson Muncaster, Managing Director, City A.M.

Lawson started his career at Scottish TV before moving to London to work for Eurosport where he was promoted to sales director across the UK in 1996. In 1997 Lawson became sales director with outdoor contractor Mills and Allen but by 1999 was lured back to television as sales director for CNN.

In 2000 Lawson moved away from television for the second time, moving to Metro International as Vice President, Global Sales. He left in 2004.

In September 2005, he and Jens Torpe launched a new paper aimed exclusively at London's business and financial areas - CITY A.M.

The free daily business tabloid covers "business with personality", providing not only business news and analysis but also leisure, lifestyle and sports editorial. Brand extensions include a CITY P.M. podcast and mobizine.

The paper is distributed by hand from 6am, Monday to Friday, at key commuter points as office workers pour into City of London and Canary Wharf districts. Total distribution peaked at 93,737 in 2006 and is set to reach 100,000 within the first quarter of 2007.

Lawson’s passions are his family, CITY A.M., golf and Celtic FC.