PR firm FD Int’l opens office here - Singapore

PR firm FD Int’l opens office here - Singapore

By WEE JUN KAI

FINANCIAL and corporate public relations firm Financial Dynamics International (FD) is setting up shop in Singapore and has appointed The Business Times’ former Jakarta correspondent and Yale graduate Laurel Teo its Singapore vice-president.
‘Singapore is a key centre for any international consultancy that is serious about doing business in Asia, and we see a local presence as a core strategic component of our regional development,’ said FD’s Asia chief executive Diana Footitt.

Since its launch in the second quarter of 2005, FD’s Asia-Pacific team has grown to some 50 consultants across five offices, including two firms acquired in China and Australia last September.

Group chief executive Charles Watson says FD will offer multinational and local companies a range of services which he terms as ‘boardroom communications’.

Through its global network, including offices in Dubai and Bahrain, Mr Watson reckons FD can help companies in the region before and after an initial public offering (IPO).

FD prides itself on hiring consultants who are familiar with each region and ’sensitive to local political issues’, he said.

FD is a market leader in merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory work. It was named 2007 Financial Public Relations Agency of the Year by the Financial Times newspaper and MergerMarkets.
It also received the Gold Sabre Award for ‘Best Investor Relations Programme’ consecutively for the last three years.

Current clients include the South Africa-listed Standard Bank, RGM International and the Dubai Mercantile Exchange.
Source : Business Times - 15 Feb 2008

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