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No signs of the seven year itch from this boutique-turned- integrated communications agency

SINGAPORE, 7 AUGUST 2019 – PRecious Communications, a multi-award winning integrated communications agency, celebrated its seventh anniversary alongside #FriendsofPRecious who have been supporting the company through the years, including alumni, friends, as well as clients both past and present.

From humble beginnings in 2012, the agency was just a one-person show with no formal office. In just seven short years, PRecious Communications has since grown into an integrated communications agency that employees 50 people, spread across its offices in Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.

The Growth Mindset

Believing that people are the key ingredient to success, PRecious Communications plans to further its headcount by the end of 2019. To support long-term growth and meet the demands of its growing client base, the agency has welcomed Sangeeta Sakhrani to the senior leadership team as Human Resource Director (Southeast Asia), overseeing hiring across all regions. Sangeeta brings more than twelve years of experience to PRecious Communications, with expertise in the areas of recruitment, employee relations, training, change management, project management, and organisational structure. Read more

Partners with BioSpectrum Asia & PRCA SEA to launch the most comprehensive look-book focusing on how next decade holds for this exciting sector 

29thJuly, 2019, Singapore — SPAG (www.spag.asia) , Asia’s most innovative integrated healthcare advocacy and public relations firm today announced that it has partnered with BioSpectrum Asia and PRCA SEA to undertake first-of-its-kind APAC Healthcare Communications Outlook report. The release of the report with support from KPMG will take place on 2nd October 2019 during an event in Singapore.

“The APAC region is re-shaping in terms of healthcare and complexities associated with it. New business models, multitude of stakeholders, regulations and changing world dynamics are defining the trajectory for future. Effective & impactful communication in such times is critical but often an overlooked consideration”, says Aman Gupta, Managing Partner, SPAG and the brain behind this intent.

The report aims to seek views from some of the best thought leaders in space and understand challenges, opportunities and trends that will define communications outlook in next decade (2020-30). It will be based on the context of an everchanging Asian healthcare space and an overhaul in demand-supply, business models, regulations, data and technology, more than ever. With customer centricity, innovation, partnerships, collaboration, revolutionary R&D, all being essentials, organizations will need to be more flexible in dealing with disruption. Read more

The Public Relations and Communications Association Southeast Asia (PRCA SEA), is delighted to announce Maverick as its first Indonesian member.

Maverick is a communications consultancy based in Jakarta that specialises in making the complex sound simple, and the simple sound important.

Founded in 1969, the PRCA represents over 30,000 practitioners in 66 countries around the world, with offices in the UK, Singapore, and Dubai. It is the world’s largest PR Association.

PRCA Southeast Asia works to build connections between agencies across the region and around the world, aligning them under common standards. It also hosts training and events which tackle issues around facing the industry regionally and globally. Read more

The PRCA Southeast Asia PR and Communications Board was launched today, with 15 elected members, drawn from across the region.

Chaired by Lee Nugent CMPRCA, Regional Director, Archetype, the Board Members are:

• Angela Sim MPRCA, Marketing Director, Affluence PR
• Deepa Balji MPRCA, Executive Director, Marketing and Communications, Publicis Groupe Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa
• Susanna Hughes MPRCA, Director of Communications, Appier
• Ng Keng Wee MPRCA, Technology Lead, Singapore, WE Communications
• Clāra Ly-Le MPRCA, Managing Director, ELOQ Communications
• Tom Evrard MPRCA, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting
• Joleena Seah MPRCA, Director, Southeast Asia, GHC Asia
• Lauren Myers-Cavanagh MPRCA, Director, Special Projects, Edelman
• Andrew Wong MPRCA, Director, Blue Totem Communications
• Kelly Johnston MPRCA, Managing Director, Southeast Asia, MHP Communications
• Lena Soh Ng MPRCA, CEO, Huntington Communications
• Ong Hock Chuan MPRCA, Co-Founder, Maverick
• Poh Leng YU, MPRCA, Co-Founder, Singapore PR Network
• Steffen Egelund, MPRCA, Managing Partner, CARMA ASIA
• Eva Sogbanmu, Executive Director, Communications, Asia Pacific, JLL

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The PRCA and PRWeek are today launching the first PR and Communications Census for the Asia-Pacific region, in conjunction with research partner YouGov.

The PR and Communications Census Asia-Pacific survey is open from today. Click here to take part: https://start.yougov.com/refer/vdg4HPLDz21ybk

The results, which will be launched this Autumn, will provide the most comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the PR and communications industry across Asia Pacific.

The PR and Communications Census 2019 Asia Pacific will reveal authoritative demographics and diversity figures, salaries, the gender pay gap, industry prospects, and the industry’s evaluation preferences. Not to mention how PR professionals feel about the pressing issues of growth, revenues, and budgets. Read more