Scope

What the practice covers

Media relations

Sustained journalist relationships across business, trade, and consumer press, with placements earned on relevance, not volume.

Reputation management

Proactive narrative-building and issue anticipation for brands and leadership teams operating under scrutiny.

Executive visibility & thought leadership

Bylines, speaking platforms, and media positioning that build a leader's public credibility over time.

Crisis & issues management

Response protocols, message discipline, and stakeholder communication built before a crisis hits, not during one.

Digital & content strategy

Owned-channel content, digital PR, and content calendars aligned to the same evidence-led narrative as earned media.

Corporate communications

Internal and external messaging alignment for major announcements, leadership transitions, and organisational change.

Proof points

Media reach that holds up to scrutiny

Evidence over adjectives: critical-level contacts across print, AV and digital media, with an industry-leading lead time and response time.

25+
Years of media & crisis communications experience
75+
Clients served across sectors
6
Crisis communications mandates, incl. three global clients
12+
Sectors covered, from FMCG to governance & policy
Deep dive

How each service area runs

Media Relations & Public Relations

Ongoing pitching, press-day management, and journalist relationship-building across the outlets that matter to your sector, measured by placement quality, not clip count.

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Critical
Level contacts across print, AV & digital media

Crisis & Issues Management

Pre-built response protocols, message-testing, and rapid-response support, so the first hours of a crisis are planned, not improvised. Track record includes global mandates for listed and unlisted companies alike.

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6
Crisis mandates spanning the UK, USA, Switzerland and India

IP & USP Creation

25+ years of showcasing the intellectual property of clients, building category leadership through communication alone in categories like podiatry, insurance broking, DRM software, and heritage education.

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Niche
Category leadership built where none existed before
Selected work

Case studies across the practice

Media relations, brand building, corporate affairs, and crisis, each represented here. The full case library is on the Case Studies page.

Brand Building

One of India's largest footwear manufacturers

Fashion
Credential added, without diluting the brand's core equity

The brand was seen as reliable, comfortable and value for money, but not fashionable. A nationwide media campaign spotlighted the fashion quotient of a new range, from styling and colour to material quality, backed by designer tie-ups and fashion-week visibility, while every touchpoint stayed anchored in the brand's existing strengths.

Sector: Manufacturing & Industrials
Brand Reinforcement

A premier Indian business school, ranked among the top IIMs

Peer parity
Recognised among the leaders in its peer group for mind and media space

The institute needed to close the media-visibility gap with its closest peer schools. A sustained nationwide campaign gave the media direct access to faculty research, student activity, placements and campus milestones, with the Director's views on education policy placed regularly and consistently.

Sector: Education
Brand Building

An early entrant into insurance broking, and its online arm

25,000+
Registrants in 6 months, PR-led online campaign

Category-creation media positioning for a new insurance-broking business, CEO thought-leadership placement, and a PR-led customer acquisition campaign for its online retail arm.

Sector: BFSI & Finance
Corporate Affairs

One of India's largest telecom operators

Policy shift
Regulatory framework reworked in client's favour

Competitive intelligence and corporate affairs support that helped reshape the telecom regulatory framework, and secured an informal truce with competitors.

Sector: Governance, Policy & NGOs
Personal Branding

A lawyer and real estate company executive

12 months
To global industry recognition

A thought-leadership and social media programme, built on LinkedIn and X, establishing the client as a sought-after voice on real estate regulation.

Sector: Real Estate, Lighting & Sanitaryware
Channel & Brand Building

A global IT security (unified threat management) leader

40%
Of the company's global media coverage, from India

A dual-audience PR campaign targeting IT decision-makers and channel partners, making the India market the company's most active PR region worldwide.

Sector: IT & Technology
Policy Impact

A listed research house focused on small and mid caps

3
Long-pending policy interventions secured

Media and analyst pressure that helped move regulators on stock-exchange rules affecting retail investor participation.

Sector: BFSI & Finance
Crisis Communication

A national standards body, United Kingdom

Global
Mandate, agency of record

Post-crisis media monitoring and a media sensitisation programme.

Sector: Governance / Policy
Crisis Communication

A large industrial manufacturing group

Contained
Labour unrest managed without escalation

Crisis communication plan for the group, media training for crisis situations, and management of labour unrest.

Sector: Manufacturing & Industrials
FAQ

Common questions

What's the difference between PR and reputation management?

Public relations focuses on earning coverage and managing media relationships for specific moments, such as a launch, an announcement, or a campaign. Reputation management is the ongoing, proactive work of shaping how a brand or leader is perceived over time, including anticipating and preparing for issues before they surface.

How is crisis communications different from day-to-day PR?

Crisis communications runs on pre-built protocols (message discipline, stakeholder sequencing, and rapid response) designed and rehearsed before an issue occurs, so the organisation isn't improvising under pressure when it matters most.

What does a corporate PR agency actually do day to day?

Day to day, a corporate PR agency pitches stories and manages journalist relationships, drafts and places executive commentary and thought leadership, monitors media and social conversation for reputation risk, and keeps crisis protocols current so the organisation can respond quickly when needed.

Does Finese PR handle both media relations and digital content?

Yes. Finese PR's corporate and public relations practice covers media relations, executive visibility and thought leadership, crisis and issues management, and digital and content strategy as one integrated practice, not as separate add-on services.

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