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EurActiv estimates that over 10,000 European Public Affairs specialists are active in Brussels. These include organisations providing monitoring, information, research, communication and lobbying services. They have become indispensable partners of the European civil society, now recognized to include also business circles. These specialists work mainly for three categories of the 'Community of EU Actors (TM) ': EU-level trade federations (ca 3,000), direct corporate representations (ca 300), and numerous consultancies under the category Professionals. Consultancies tend to work with all EU Actors; they range from global full-service networks with an EU affairs subsidiary to individual experts.

acumen public affairs

Baseline & Remarks:

acumen public affairs is an independent consultancy set up in 2010 to combine the very best of big agency experience with hands-on senior support. The three founding partners have an unrivalled track record in public affairs and strategic communications gained over more than 50 years of working for corporations, governments, trade associations, NGOs and international institutions in Brussels, Geneva and beyond. acumen public affairs' aim is to provide clients with value adding strategic counsel and high quality execution – by the same people. acumen public affairs believes in the power of taking an integrated approach to advocacy and communication to achieve outcomes that have a tangible impact on business performance. We have a track record of developing winning strategies that are sustainable, by identifying a confluence of interest among key stakeholders. In other words, we are skilled at squaring the circle between the private and public sectors and ordinary citizens by addressing the human aspects of issues in a regulatory or business context.

Key partners: 

Elaine Cruikshanks, Abigail Jones, Giles Keane  (Partners)

Expertise: 

Our main areas of focus are:Public affairs, Media relations, Communications strategy development, Messaging and positioning, Training, Issues and crisis preparedness and management.

Sectors in which we have particular experience include:Healthcare and pharmaceuticals, Agriculture, Food and Consumer Policy, Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Humanitarian and Development Aid, Transport, Competition policy, ICT, International Trade and Diplomacy.

AGEP Association Management

Baseline & Remarks:

AGEP Association Management is one of Brussels' most established and respected association management companies. Since 1989 we have provided flexible, tailored services to a wide range of trade associations, many of which are highly regarded by the EU Institutions. Our skill is in bringing together companies and bodies with common interests in order to share business, commercial and technical expertise and establish common positions.AGEP Association Management’s infrastructure also enables it to take care of all the administration required in the setting up and running of an association - from membership management to peer engagement and dialogue. Modern associations take an active role in shaping and driving the policy agenda. They have a clear vision of the position they wish to create for their industry and engage in a proactive dialogue with stakeholders. AGEP Association Management consultants counsel clients on the development and delivery of winning advocacy and communications strategies and provide the insights and analysis needed to further the sector’s agenda in Europe.

Key partners: 

Alain Beaumont (Managing Director), Helen Benson, Susanne Meyer, Sam Rowe Jean-Christophe Kremer, Youri Skaskevitch & Aurora Vicente

Expertise: 

AGEP Association Management works with European associations, representing sectors at both national and pan-European level. We offer specialist services in:

  • Scientific and Regulatory affairs
  • Trade policy
  • Market organisation
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Communications and Media Relations.

AGEP Association Management manages associations across a wide range of sectors and has built specific expertise in the food industry, with clients including foodstuffs, drinks, fish, food ingredients and fruit and vegetables.

Burson-Marsteller

Baseline & Remarks:

Burson-Marsteller Brussels is the leading public affairs and communications consultancy. We help companies and organisations to influence the development and implementation of EU public policy, design and implement media and communications campaigns in Brussels and across the EU, with our network of 27 offices.  

Key partners: 

David Earnshaw (CEO),Karen Massin (COO), Lawrie McLaren (Head of the Environment Team and Chair, EMEA Corporate Responsibility Practice), Olivier de Matos (Head of the Government Relations Team), Ane Sofie Böhm Nielsen (Head of the Healthcare team), Dennis Landsbert-Noon (Chair, EMEA Media Practice). Robert Mack (Chair, EMEA Public Affairs)

Expertise: 

Areas include: Energy  |  Environment and Climate Change | Healthcare, Food and Nutrition | Information and Communications Technology | Transport | Food and Consumer issues | Competition Policy | Financial Services | Government Policy and legislative relations  | Sport and Olympics

Services include: Public Affairs | Media Relations | Corporate Communications & Crisis Preparedness | Media, Crisis and Public Affairs Training | Digital and Design| Corporate Responsibility | Video production.

Cabinet DN

Baseline & Remarks:

Cabinet DN is one of the largest and most successful independent consultancies in Brussels. cDN offers public affairs and media services to clients seeking to influence the European Union. With a team of 30 multilingual consultants and external advisors, cabinet DN provides pan-European Public Affairs and Public Relations services to clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies and large trade associations to innovative market entrants and NGOs. Together with them, cDN delivers tangible results across many productive sectors including financial services, information technology, biotech, pharmaceuticals, energy, media and agriculture.

Key partners: 

Timme Bertolt Dossing and Jacob Lund Nielsen

Expertise: 

Cabinet DN offers advice to clients from a number of high-profile Senior Advisors with hands-on experience in shaping EU environmental and industrial policy, including former Prime Minister John Bruton and former MEPs Christian Rovsing and John Purvis. Cabinet DN’s international and politically experienced staff is seasoned in providing ’value added’ public affairs and policy advice by leveraging their political networks in the EU institutions and the Member States. Cabinet DN was founded in 2004 by Timme Dossing and Jacob Lund Nielsen, putting the DN and the N into cabinet DN. The company is still owned by them. The management philosophy is Scandinavian, with an emphasis on openness, responsibility and results. We reside in our very own 19th century townhouse in the heart of the European Quarter. Cabinet DN is a member of the WE Global Alliance Network, it is listed in the European Commission’s Interest Group Register and accredited with the European Parliament.  

CEC Government Relations

Baseline & Remarks:

Established in 1993, we are the lobbying agency of choice for Western companies seeking to promote their public affairs agenda in Central Europe. We work for a range of top multinationals from the US, Europe and Asia operating throughout Central Europe, managing their public affairs relationships at the local, national, regional and European level. Central European countries also now play a crucial role in shaping the Brussels agenda, and with the Hungarian and Polish Presidencies of the EU, 2011 is the year of Central Europe. We work with EU policymakers from Central Europe nationally, in the European Parliament and with their respective national representations in Brussels. CEC helps you to understand the new Central European players in the EU, and to access them effectively by leveraging our own two-decades long presence in the region.  

Key partners: 

Marek Matraszek (Founding Partner), Bartosz Kwiatkowski (Advisor to the Board), Marek Kotlarski (Director for Public Affairs); Anna Borys-Karwacka (Director for Public Relations)

Expertise: 

Energy and Environment; Defence and Security; IT; Financial Services; Automotive and Transport; Chemicals; Media Relations; Corporate Communications & Crisis Management.

Grayling

Baseline & Remarks:

Grayling is the second largest independent global Public Relations, Public Affairs, Investor Relations and Events consultancy in the world. We have 70 offices in 40 locations in the US, Western and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, the Middle East and Asia Pacific with a strong network of preferred partners in other parts of the world. Situated in the heart of Brussels’ EU quarter, Grayling Belgium is a leading and fully integrated communications consultancy. Our multinational and multilingual office (we can work in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Slovak, Bulgarian, Japanese and many more) employs 30 dynamic consultants who manage the perception and reputation of a varied group of clients, including blue chips, multinationals, Belgian SMEs, trade associations, and coalitions.

Key partners: 

Russell Patten (CEO Brussels and Head of PA Western Europe) Jessica Adkins (Director), Delphine Millot (Director), Lieneke Slegers (Director)

Expertise: 

We are experts in Public Relations, Public Affairs, Investor Relations, Association Management and Events. Whilst we cover most EU policy and legislative areas, we are a leading consultancy in Environment, Energy and Transport; Health and Pharmaceuticals; Food, Agriculture and Fisheries; Trade and Competition; Consumer Protection, ICT and Digital. With the recent adoption of the Lisbon Treaty, the EU’s powers are expanding in such a way that it is now crucial to lobby both in Brussels and the EU Member States, and with Grayling’s unique European footprint of 40 offices spread throughout the EU we are best placed to serve your needs both at the pan-European and national levels. At Grayling in Brussels, we have the experience, the expertise, and the passion to go beyond our client expectations and our approach, “A different kind of thinking for a different kind of world”, is nowhere truer than here at the heart of Europe.

Hill+Knowlton Strategies

Baseline & Remarks:

At Hill+Knowlton Strategies, we ensure that our clients communicate their points of view to the audiences that matter. We have been helping clients to navigate the Brussels media and policy scenes for over four decades. With a team of 50 people from 13 countries speaking 16 languages, there’s no issue or challenge that we haven’t faced. Our diverse and dynamic team consistently delivers bold campaigns with real, commercial return. We believe that good communications means simplicity, creativity and concrete results. Relationships matter, and details count. In an environment where many prefer to play it safe, H+K Belgium dares to be bold.

Key partners: 

Thomas Tindemans (CEO and Managing Director EU Public Affairs), Melanie Faithfull Kent (COO and Managing Director Communications),  Katia Delvaille (Managing Director Belgium PR),   Ulrich Adam (Director), Glen Hodgson (Director), Michael Voordeckers (Director),  Ann Becker (Director)

Expertise: 

Corporations. Governments. NGOs, Trade associations. Member States. There are a lot of players with something to say to European policymakers. At H+K we have the expertise to connect you with the people who matter. Achieving positive regulatory results depends not only on a thorough understanding of EU political and regulatory processes but also on having knowledge of specific business sectors and the key players and personalities involved in each. Our consultants are strong in both of these areas, and we have the creativity and relationships to leverage our understanding and knowledge into results. We help connect individuals and organisations with Europe’s key decision-makers. Give us a call. We have the connections to get you connected right away.

Kellen Europe

Baseline & Remarks:

Kellen Europe's primary objective is to provide key professional services to European and global business associations , individual membership organisations and special interest groups. We are dedicated to the concept of Association Management in Europe. Kellen Europe provides association management, strategic advice, government affairs, market research and European representation services to associations and corporations worldwide.

Kellen Clients benefit from specialised association management knowledge, enriched service offering and privileged links with EU and US-based decision-makers.

Key partners: 

Alfons Westgeest (Managing Partner), Maria Teresa Scardigli (Vice-President)

Expertise: 

Association management, strategic advice, communications, meetings management, government affairs, benchmarking studies and other professional advice to associations and corporations worldwide.

Kreab Gavin Anderson

Baseline & Remarks:

Kreab Gavin Anderson is a world leading communications concultancy with over 350 professionals of 40 nationalities serving more than 500 retained clients in 25 countries. Kreab Gavin Anderson advise clients on issues of strategic importance in business, finance and politics, helping clients to solve complex communications challenges and achieve their strategic goals. Kreab Gavin Anderson's offer includes a broad range of integrated services, advising on high-stake financial, corporate and public affairs communications. The Kreab Gavin Anderson Brussels office focuses on European Affairs, helping clients to understand and influence EU policy.

Key partners: 

Karl Isaksson (Managing Partner), Hannalena Ivarsson (Deputy Managing Partner), Henning Christophersen (Senior Partner), Georg Danell (Senior Partner),John Houston (Senior Partner), Sebastian Remøy (Senior Partner

Expertise: 

Competition; corporate governance; energy; environment; EU foreign policy and cooperation; EU funding; financial services; health and consumer protection; pharmaceuticals; research and development; retail and food; taxation; telecommunications and new technologies; trade; transport.

Ogilvy

Baseline & Remarks:

Ogilvy Public Relations Brussels is a full-service, strategic communications consultancy. Part of the Ogilvy Group, we offer clients one-stop access to integrated marketing and communications expertise. As the EU communication hub, we work with EU policy makers and opinion leaders, EU and local media corps, businesses and associations.

Key partners: 

Jeff Chertack (Managing Director),Laure VanHauwaert (Head of corporate and consumer communications),Deepika Sandhu (Director of Public Affairs)

Expertise: 

Ogilvy designs and implements tailored communications programmes that generate awareness and drive change. Our multinational team of experts brings experience in corporate and public communications, public affairs and internal communications with speciality in health, sustainability and the environment and trade. Communication services offered include: brand positioning and reputation management, coalition-building, corporate responsibility communications, crisis and issue management, media relations, behaviour change marketing, digital strategy and strategic communication planning.

Serviceplan

Baseline & Remarks:

The Serviceplan Group is Europes largest owner-managed agency. Over the last 40 years, Serviceplan has evolved into an agency group that is unique in combining all modern communication disciplines under one roof. Our vision is to provide the most efficient agency model for fully integrated national and international communications. That means combining global thinking with local action. In order to guarantee outstanding performance in the execution of our campaigns, we are represented with our own agencies and multinational teams in all significant economic areas in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia. Together, all Serviceplan companies currently have more than 1000 employees whose work regularly wins awards at national and international creative competitions.

Key partners: 

Jörg Ihlau (Managing Director Consulting, Serviceplan Public Opinion), Jochen Rösch (Business Development Serviceplan Group)

Expertise: 

Our system of fully integrated agencies and partner firms provides experts for all relevant communication disciplines. Whether they are specialists for public relations and political campaigns or media planning, green marketing and CSR or sponsoring and rights, research and Insight-based consulting, web designers or creative professionals – at Serviceplan, everybody acts in concert.  

Other consultancies

Alonso & Asociados

Euroservices Development

Anna Macdougald EU Public Affairs

Eurotec Consulting

APCO Europe

eustrategy.net

Archimede

FIPRA

Association Global Services

Fleishman-Hillard

Athenora

Furrer et Hugi

Barabino & Partners Europe S.A.

GBat Beckenham

BERKLEY

GBat Beckenham

Brussels Direct

Gellis Communications

Business Environment Europe

Gibbels Public Affairs

C.B. Europa

GPlus Europe

Cambre Associates

Group Deloitte & Touche

Chelgate Europe

Hanover Communications

Cicero Consulting

Houston Consulting Europe

Clan Public Affairs

I.R.I.S. DocShare

Communications Group

Impetus Europe Consulting Group

Consultancy Europe Associates

INTEC Strategic Advice GmbH

Creadvocacy

Interel Group

DEVELOPMENT Solutions

International Relations Consulting

Didier (J.M.) and Associates European Affairs

IP Strategies

diplomat communications

Jaypro Associates Limited

diplomat communications

Josef Zieleniec & Partners

DLA Piper - Global Government Relations

JPA International Affairs & Consultancy

Eamonn Bates

Kern European Affairs

Ecofys

L Consult: Conseil Affaires Européennes

Ecotec Research and Consulting

LATIMER EUROPA

Edelman Public Relations Worldwide

Longin & Associes

EPPA

Luther Pendragon Brussels

Equality Consulting Ltd.

Markets Europe

EU.select

Nicholas Phillips Associates

EURALIA

PACT European Affairs

Eurinco

Pantheion

Euro P.A. Consulting

PIMEC

EUROHUB

PLATO Kommunikation

EUROMED

PLEON

Europe Analytica

PNO Consultants GmbH

European Advisory Services

Porter Novelli Brussels

European Affairs Consulting Group Berlin

Praaning Meines Consultancy Group

European Consulting Company

Prime PR

European Contact Service

Prisma Consulting Group

European Development Projects

PRM - European Lobbyists

European Energy and Telecom Consulting

Project Europa

European Intermediation

Publicis Consulting

European Project

Qed Communication

European Regional Affairs Consultants

TGG

European Research Associates

Thorvik International Consulting

European Strategy and Lobbying

TREMBLAY

EuroRSCG C&O -European Affairs

Weber Shandwick

EuroRSCG C&O -European Affairs

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