Adhoc PR is a small, personal PR agency that has been operating since 1996. They specialize in social media marketing, PR, content creation, and strategic communications for brands in the retail, food, and hospitality industries. Their services include media relations, copywriting, social media management, marketing strategies, product launches, and crisis communications. They have experience working with a variety of foodservice, venue, hotel, and restaurant brands.

1. snapshots
A taste of what we do
September 2014

2. Why choose adhoc pr?
We are small, personal and passionate about what we do
•We tell the story of your brand, using a creative web ofsocial mediamarketing, trade and consumer PR,blogger relations, video and image content.
•Est. in 1996, we have a solid track record working for small and large brands in retail, food and hospitality sectors.
•We are offer a bespoke, personal and open service (no hidden costs)
•We are good lateral thinkers –we like to spot the slot!
•We believe that the best communications campaign is delivered by combining PR and social media strategies
•Our media relations skills stretch across a variety of channels including; Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram as well as traditional media -national and trade press print and broadcast

3. our services
•Media relations (print, broadcast, digital)
•Copywriting(features, blogs, brochures, newsletters, websites, competitions and advertorials)
•Content management storytelling online through social media
•Marketing strategies & Communication plans
•Social mediaimplementation and management
•Product launches
•Sponsorship
•Internal/employee relations
•Crisis management & Media training
•Awards
•Photography(corporate and creative)

4. brands we have worked with
•Foodservice -Baxter Storey, Compass Restaurant Associates, CH&Co, Creativevents, Creative Taste, All Leisure, Express Cafes, Vacherin
•Venues-RIBA Venues, London Zoo, New Connaught Rooms, Vertigo (Tower 42), Vinopolis, It’s the Agency, BMA House, Brooklands Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery Café, Greenwich Park, Whitechapel Gallery, 20 Bedford Way
•Hotels -Sofitel Heathrow T5, BarceloHotels, Holiday Inn (IHG), Hand Picked Hotels, StaybridgeSuites, The Leathes Head Country House Hotel, The Vanbrugh House Hotel, Conrad London St James, Hilton London Bankside
•Restaurants -Brasserie Roux, Rhodes 24, Rhodes W1, Restaurant at RIBA

5. Food service case studies

6. Baxter Storey
•Launch of Wilson Storey Halliday (now Baxter Storey)
•Also featured in The Times & The Telegraph business sections

7. Compass Group
FT magazine
The launch of Restaurant Associates caused a big stir but the challenge was to gain coverage outside the trade press

8. Compass Group
Liverpool Daily Post

9. Compass Group
The Times 2 Food

10. CH&Co –it’s the Agency
•Launch of competitive venues agency -It’s The Agency
•Creation of partnership with Benefit cosmetics for launch party
•Creation of signature photography for brand

11. CH&Co -Amanda Ursell Catey winner
•PR campaign helps form key partnership with Amanda Urselljournalist, nutritionist and TV presenter
•CH&Coawarded Food Service Cateyin 2013

12. CH&Co in Olive magazine for RIBA

14. Creative Taste –Grand Designs Live 2014, ExCeL

15. Creative Taste #inthepicture
•Creation of #inthepicture campaign to launch Creative Taste at Dulwich Picture Gallery bringing together art and food
•Over 100 guests attended including key catering press
•Coverage achieved in over 6 trade titles

16. Creativevents -Greenwich Park

17. We can help raise the profile of your business within the business/trade press read by your potential customers…
FSM magazine, key interview and business feature about Creativevents

18. Express Cafes
•Support with website news/newsletter content
•News distribution and editorial opportunities

19. Venue case studies

20. putting you on the front page
Sofitel and designer of Khuan Chew venue case study front page and feature in
Conference & Incentive Travel magazine

21. Whitechapel Gallery
6 page front cover feature in FM World for Whitechapel Gallery

22. Whitechapel Gallery - Maria Elia

23. Whitechapel Gallery

24. Gary Rhodes W1
•Launch of private dining rooms at Rhodes W1 restaurant at The Cumberland hotel
•Event organising for launch party for over 300 with key food and trade press attending
•Coverage in; Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Metro, City AM, Cosmopolitan.co.uk

25. ‘Brooklands Museum Concorde weddings’
Creativevents -Brooklands Museum

26. RIBA Venues
•Launch and build the profile RIBA restaurant to consumers
•Chef profiles, menus and restaurant reviews…
•Achieved Event top 20 venuestatus
•Results–achieved results in over 100 titles in just 7 months with an audience reach of over 2million

27. RIBA Wedding case studies
‘RIBA art deco weddings’

28. RIBA Venues, key editorial feature and credits in
Square Meal Weddings magazine
Square Meal Weddings

29. The Four Sisters Bar -profile raising & partnerships
•Appointed for short 3 month autumn project to launch new menu and raise awareness of the bar in key drink/cocktail titles
•Challenge–competing against established bars along Upper Street
•Result–achieved a fruitful partnership with Divine Chocolate to promote chocolate drinks menu for Chocolate Week (October 2013)
•Campaign reached an audience of over 2,189,000

31. thinking outside the box!
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32. Who do we know?

33. Deborah Parritt
•Over 20 years communications experience in the travel, leisure and hospitality industry.
•Specialist in creating photo opportunities, achievingnational press and broadcasting coverage by encapsulating good stories in arresting images.
•Involved with large international companies such as the InterContinental Hotels Group, Choice Hotels Europe and the All Leisure division of Compass Group. Fun campaigns have included launching the first British grown tea at Kensington Palace, launching Rhodes Twenty Four with Gary Rhodes, launching Albert Roux at Sofitel Heathrow and arranging for the Book Programme to be broadcast from Vinopolis. Deborah also helped to launch the Hoxton Apprentice –brain child of celebrity chef Prue Leith.
•Deborah knows London’s venue scene intimately and launched the It’s the Agency venue collection for CH&Co. When she worked with Vacherin on the launch of the newly restyled Whitechapel Art Gallery she collaborated with chef Maria Elia to achieve record press coverage for the dining aspect of the venue as well as a front page feature story in FMJ.A highlight of her work with Creative Taste has been the involvement with Dulwich Picture Gallery launch party and talking about the ingenious ways Creativevents have for disposing of waste.On a volunteer basis Deborah works with Keats Community Library as their unofficial PR adviser and occasionally washes up after family meals at the local youth project, the Winch.
•Deborah’s hobbies mostly relate to eating out and travelling. She tries to mitigate the inevitable consequences by walking her beloved border terrier.

34. Lisa Ronchetti
•Worked for some of the world’s leading brands in a property, hospitality, travel and F&B
•Experienced in developing strategy and content for digital PR campaigns including setting up and managing blogs and managing social media
•Client experience includes; Creativevents, Holiday Inn London Stratford City, Staybridge Suites, Sofitel London Heathrow T5, Hand Picked Hotels, Barcelo Hotels, Strand Palace Hotel, Brooklands Museum, Macdonald Hotels & Resorts
•Fun campaigns include celebrating the 1styear anniversary of Holiday Inn London Stratford City by challenging the hotel staff to a step challenge, creating London’s first chocolate dim sum afternoon tea and achieving record PR coverage including national food reviews for award winning Grand Imperial London -a la carte restaurant based at The Grosvenor Hotel, Victoria
•Taking the head of events at BMA House onto BBC London radio for a foodie slot about Brazilian BBQ food with presenter Gaby Roslyn
•Launched smaller start ups online including career mentor and coach, Penny Davenport, securing exclusive features with the Financial Times, Marie Claire and Men’s Health
•Memorable moments include teaching The London Paper to speak Italian for the launch of La Dolce Vita show, rubbing shoulders with Gary Rhodes at The Cumberland, Esther Rantzan in North London, working with celebrity chef Gino d’Acampo and meeting Ronnie Corbett on a press trip to Marrakech.
•Fluent in Italian and basic French language skills.
•Lisa loves to travel and enjoys blogging about sausage dogs.

35. talk to us, we like a challenge!
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