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PRBI Announces New Leadership – Founder of Brunnen to Guide International Growth

The leadership of PR Boutiques International (PRBI) for 2024–2025 has been elected. Taru Nikulainen, Founder and Partner of Brunnen Communications, has been appointed to guide PRBI's international growth.

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12.1.

Brunnen ranked as the best comms agency in Finland for understanding the clients’ business, reliability and ethics – National Survey 2023

In 2023, market research company Taloustutkimus conducted a survey on the image and competence of pr and communication service providers in Finland. The survey was answered by corporate decision-makers and executives who buy communications services. Brunnen Communications was rated as the best in terms of understanding the client's business, reliability and ethics.

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30.11.

Brunnenille kolme voittoa Finnish Comms Awardsissa

Three wins for Brunnen at the national Finnish Comms Awards

Brunnen's communication work won three awards in the main category of the Finnish Comms Awards, the biggest and the most influential competition of the comms consultancy industry in Finland. Communication partnership with Habita was chosen as the Strategic Communication Consultancy of the Year. Together with HSY and TerraWise, the first place was won in the Organizational Communication category, and with OX2 in the Communication Training and Simulations category.

News

17.11.

Strategy urges for strategy communication

After a bundle of workshops, a new business strategy is finally ready. Congratulations! But to be honest, the real work is still ahead. Even a brilliant business strategy is very easy to kill before it gets to take off, and the easiest recipe for this is to forget your own people when communicating the strategy. This serious mistake is still unfortunately common failure in many organizations.

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Lessons learned from my year in a client organization

The end of 2022 also brought to a close my one-year post as one of our international clients’ Interim Communications Manager. I spent approximately one third of my time covering for an Internal Communication Manager who was on family leave. The experience was eye-opening and inspiring. So what did I learn and what tips could I give to someone thinking about leasing an external expert on a fixed-term contract?

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Stakeholder-oriented project communication brought manageability to wind power projects

OX2, one of the Europe’s leading developers of renewable energy sources chose Brunnen as its partner in Finland almost five years ago. Our common goal was to create optimal conditions for the success of wind power projects. Strategic communication and stakeholder expectation management were harnessed at the heart of the infrastructure projects.

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Health technology developer decided to attract new talent by building better visibility and stronger brand

Varian is a major player in Finland’s software development market. When the company partnered up with Brunnen at the start of 2019, its priority was to recruit new talent. The team of 250 professionals was looking to grow by 40 new experts.

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Urbaser achieved its goals through determined communication

Environmental management company Urbaser Oy and Brunnen teamed up a couple of years back. A strong strategic partnership in communication and systematic brand visibility efforts have assisted Urbaser in achieving its revenue goals.

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Business and communication – higher performance through better leadership and strategic communication

What role does communication play in your business? Do your executives know how to use comms to really promote your organization? Has all its potential been harnessed in the pursuit of a common vision, or are you stuck in the rut of routines?

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A bold spokesperson adds a breath of fresh air to the real estate market

Communication partnership: Habita & Brunnen Brunnen has been the communication partner of Finland’s largest independent real estate agency, Habita, for eight years. Since the beginning, the partnership has been characterized by 100% transparency and trust in succeeding together.

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Now it’s time to celebrate! We won three golds and Brunnen is the Comms Agency of the Year 2022

The Finnish Comms Awards, the top-quality, most prestigious communications event in Finland, culminated yesterday with a superb awards gala. Three of our client cases received awards as the best PR assignments of 2022! On top of this, the jury voted Brunnen as the Comms Agency of the Year 2022.

News

15.11.

Brunnen has been named a finalist in the highly appreciated SABRE Awards PR agency competition

Exceptionally great news! We have been named a finalist in the SABRE Awards 2022 EMEA PR agency competition. Our work with Finnish Kennel Club 'Covid caused a dog ownership boom, but a dog is not a toy' communicated against unethical puppy farming.

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28.4.

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