News Archive
London, January 11, 2021: Shepard Fox to support AXA XL in raising its profile in India and Brazil
Shepard Fox has been commissioned by AXA XL, a division of global insurance company AXA, to continue to help raise its profile in India and Brazil via media relations and content editing services, and position the company as a thought leader in managing corporate risks. AXA XL is specializing in property and casualty insurances for mid-size and international companies, as well as in covering specialty risks such as satellite, marine, and fine art insurance. Shepard Fox provides local PR support in India and Brazil via its local offices in New Delhi and Sao Paulo, respectively, while reporting to global HQ of AXA XL in London. The services comprise the localization of media content such as press releases and feature articles, building and maintaining media relationships, screening local markets for media opportunities, as well as media monitoring.
Munich, December 10, 2020: Study reveals largest innovation clusters for fourth industrial revolution technologies all located in Asia or US – Shepard Fox promotes study via media relations in China, Japan, South Korea, the US
A study published by the European Patent Office (EPO) shows that innovation in fourth industrial revolution (4IR) technologies has accelerated significantly worldwide. Global patent filings for these technologies, which concern smart connected objects and span the Internet of Things, big data, 5G, and artificial intelligence (AI), grew at an average annual rate of almost 20% – nearly five times faster than the average of all technology fields.
The study also shows that innovation is concentrated in certain regional clusters of innovation around the world, The top 20 4IR clusters are jointly responsible for well over half of all innovations. The regional ranking is topped by 13 Asian and US clusters, followed by seven clusters located in Europe and the Middle East.
Shepard Fox supported the EPO in generating media content on the basis of the study, producing local press releases in the respective language for China, Japan, South Korea, the U.S., as well as for European countries including Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands. Furthermore Shepard Fox supported the EPO by local distribution of the press releases, reaching out to key media in each of the countries as well as by arranging media interviews with the authors of the study, and monitoring media for media coverage.
Munich, October 19, 2020: Key posts on German top supervisory boards are still reserved for men, study shows – Shepard Fox supports leadership advisory Russell Reynolds in promoting study via media relations
Two years after having reached the statutory women’s quota of 30% in Germany’s top 30 supervisory boards, numbers of women are stagnating at 32.9 percent. This has Germany ranked seventh in Europe. Still, supervisory board power structures have changed little, if at all. There is the only one woman among the top 30 supervisory board chairs. Only 12 percent of committee chairs are women.
This is the result of a survey done by global leadership advisory and search firm Russell Reynolds Associates. For the past ten years the company, which specialises in recruiting candidates for top-executive positions and boards, has been analysing the composition of DAX-30 supervisory boards by conducting an annual survey.
Shepard Fox supports Russell Reynolds in promoting the results of the study by creating media releases and social media content summarizing the main results of the study as well as by distributing the press releases to key media, arranging media interviews with the authors of the study and by monitoring media for coverage.
Zurich, September 27, 2020: Shepard Fox Communications mourns death of Wolfgang Clement, Chairman of the Advisory Board
Shepard Fox deeply mourns the death of our Advisory Board Chairman, Wolfgang Clement.
Wolfgang encouraged and supported the foundation of Shepard Fox Communications in 2007. Without him, the company would not be here today. He accepted to become Advisory Board Chairman right from the start.
Two years after leaving his German Federal government role as Minister of Economics and Labor in 2005, he co-founded and led a labour market research institute in London. In cooperation with universities and think tanks around the world, the institute launched studies and surveys on how demographics changed labour markets and how employment and labour would evolve in the 21st century.
Shepard Fox supported the institute with global media relations, editing and localising the content of the studies and surveys into Asian and European languages, and organising press conferences and panel discussions across Europe and Asia to present the findings of the research studies.
With the passing of Wolfgang, we have lost our closest adviser and greatest mentor, as well as an unmatched role model for integrity and reliability, for inspiring motivation, courage and confidence in people, for being faithful to one’s convictions, unwavering in arguing for one’s beliefs, for clarity of thought and language, for always following one’s words with deeds, and for being the hardest worker we have ever known. We also lose our great friend, who we could always count on and who would never let us down, no matter what. We miss him already.
We send our sincere condolences to his family – with whom he was very close – and to his wide network of friends and colleagues in Germany and across the world.
Munich, September 22, 2020: Rapid rise in battery innovation playing key role in clean energy transition – Shepard Fox supports European Patent Office and International Energy Agency in global promotion of study
Improving the capacity to store electricity is playing a key role in the transition to clean energy technologies. Between 2005 and 2018, patenting activity in batteries and other electricity storage technologies grew at an average annual rate of 14% worldwide, four times faster than the average of all technology fields, according to a joint study published today by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the International Energy Agency (IEA). The report, Innovation in batteries and electricity storage – a global analysis based on patent data, also shows that batteries account for nearly 90% of all patenting activity in the area of electricity storage. – Shepard Fox is supporting the European Patent Office in promoting the key findings of the study via a global media campaign across Europe, Japan, South Korea, China and the United States, including the creation and distribution of localized press releases, reaching out to tier-1 general and business media, and arranging media interviews for online, print, radio and TV coverage with the authors of the study.
httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkh2NFlG1h4
Sao Paulo, August 17, 2020: COVID-19: como o seguro pode ajudar na luta médica contra a pandemia – Shepard Fox supports global insurer AXA in localizing media content for South American markets
In the fight against COVID-19, the search for a vaccine is a major international effort. Behind the scenes, insurance companies and their risk engineers are involved in this effort too, as clinical trials require insurance coverage. In a feature article, insurance company AXA explains how insurances help in the medical fight against the pandemic. The article is part of an ongoing series of thought leadership pieces on managing risks, published by the insurer. – Shepard Fox supports AXA in Brazil by translating and localizing media content like press releases and feature articles and by placing such content with Brazilian business media and insurance industry trade publications (see sample below).
Feature article English: COVID-19; how insurance can help in the medical fight against the pandemic
Feature article Portuguese: COVID-19: como o seguro pode ajudar na luta médica contra a pandemia
Munich, July 13, 2020: Europe is a global hub for innovation in 3D printing, new study from European Patent Office EPO shows – Shepard Fox supports the EPO in communicating study’s findings to media
Patent applications for additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, increased at an average annual rate of 36% in recent years, a new study from the European Patent Office (EPO) shows. This is more than ten times greater than the average yearly growth of all applications at the Office combined in the same period (3.5%). The steep rise in 3D innovations has the potential to help redesign global supply chains, making them more resilient. The report was published today during a virtual EPO conference. – Shepard Fox supports the EPO in promoting both the conference and the study by creating localized press releases for European countries as well as for the United States, and distributing the releases to media outlets. Further support comprises arranging and facilitating media interviews with EPO experts, answering media requests as well as media monitoring.
Sample U.S. media coverage by Bloomberg newswire
Download executive summary of EPO 3D printing study
httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7IgVhSAOPc
Eindhoven, Netherlands, July 7, 2020: A tech device revolution: video cameras turn into smart cameras – Shepard Fox supports Bosch in communicating the benefits of open platform cameras
It is a revolution of a tech device everybody knows: the video camera, often associated with security applications. Just as the mobile phone turned into a smart phone, video cameras are turning into smart cameras, thanks to a shift away from proprietary software to open platforms. Bosch is one of the first camera manufacturers to introduce a new generation of open platform cameras, called Inteox, combining an open operating system (OS) with the ability to add apps from an app store as needed. App developers can now add new possibilities of applying cameras. – Shepard Fox supports Bosch by creating feature articles, social media posts and press releases on the benefits of its new generation of smart cameras.
Sample media coverage in trade publication “securityinformed.com”
INTEOX New generation of Bosch open platform cameras
LinkedIn post on new generation of smart cameras
Munich, June 22, 2020: As Lufthansa leaves German top stock index, female quota in boards of largest companies drops – Russell Reynolds presents new research – Shepard Fox supports leadership consultancy via content creation
Today is historic day in Germany corporate history. German airline Lufthansa is kicked out of the German stock index DAX, which comprises Germany’s top 30 blue chip companies. New corporations are joining the DAX index as well the mid-cap index M-DAX. Research by Russell Reynolds shows that the newcomers to the two top leagues of listed companies have a striking impact on the overall composition of Boards: they lower the quota of women on the executive boards of the 90 largest German corporations. The research by Russell Reynolds further reveals that this has been happening for the past two years whenever the two leading German stock indices were reshuffled. – Shepard Fox supported the executive search firm by creating media content from the research findings, writing press releases and social media content as well as via contacting media and media monitoring.
Sample media coverage from German news magazine “Spiegel”
Sample media coverage from German newspaper “Suddeutsche Zeitung”
Sample media coverage by German Public Television “ARD”
Dublin/New Delhi, June 8, 2020: AXA XL appoints new CEO for Asia and Europe – Shepard Fox supports AXA via media relations in Asia, distributing announcement of appointment to trade and business media
AXA XL, the Property & Casualty and special risk division of leading global insurance company AXA, has announced the appointment of Xavier Vevry as CEO Asia and Europe. Shepard Fox supported AXA by distributing the press release in India to business and insurance trade media as well as by following up with journalists and by monitoring media for media coverage.
Media coverage in Indian business paper Economic Times
