Six months into the merger of STMP Marketing with Charles Consultants we can report positive news on many fronts – we have expanded our client base with well know names such as Tecan and Affymetrix, as well as smaller start ups such as Akubio and Apatech. We have expanded our staff with Andy Blank, in the web team and have two new positions available.

To accommodate our expansion in London we are moving on 15th May to new larger premises in the prestigious Media Centre – a dedicated community for PR, media and communications companies. More...

Times remain tough with many companies that make profits issuing profits warnings and those companies that don’t still finding fund raising hard and investors harsh. However as we move through spring, the war is behind us and the concern over SARS underlines the role that life science companies can have in finding cures for new disease. We are seeing glimmers that folks are looking up and forward, with the smart companies now putting into place proactive communications programmes.

Even if we have all been a little swamped by DNA 50 celebrations, it is amazing just how much has been done in the 50 years since the structure of DNA was elucidated and we can only look forward to all participating in the developments that will occur over the next 50 years.

Sue Charles, CEO

As a result of expansion, the London office of Northbank Communications is moving to larger facilities in the prestigious Media Centre. Located in London’s fashionable media area of Fitzrovia, The Media Centre is a purpose-designed business centre for PR, media and creative businesses. As well as individual units, the centre provides central facilities for meetings, video conferencing and business support. For networking and social activities there is a bar and restaurant. In addition to the centre in London there is a centre in Berlin, providing Northbank with a base in Berlin as well as its existing branch office in Munich, Germany. More...

Registration is now open to Biotechnology Investment Today’s (BIT) Restoring Investor Confidence London Seminar, an event sponsored by Northbank Communications. It takes place on June 5 at the London Stock Exchange, immediately prior to the The techMARK mediscience^® Awards Dinner, as part of the CEO, CFO BioBusiness Seminar and investor network series.

The Restoring Investor Confidence Seminar is designed with high-level CEO and CFO’s in mind and focuses on private equity and investment for biotech companies. The seminar will feature briefings from global investment leaders, peer level consultative briefing from world-class experts on strategy for CEOs and networking with leading VCs, business angels, investment banks, big pharma funds and institutional investors. In addition to Northbank, the event is co-sponsored by Ernst & Young, the London Stock Exchange and Stringer Saul. The seminar is free to attend, although registration is by invitation only. Delegates will receive a complimentary copy of Ernst & Young’s 2003 European biotechnology report.

Places are limited. To receive a confirmed invitation, anyone interested must register at http://www.investinbiotech.com.

The seminar is part of a series of seminars that have taken place in New York, 22nd April, Zurich, 14th May and are scheduled for San Francisco and Munich later in the year.

Since February Northbank has …. been appointed by Affymetrix to handle its PR in Europe and will be implementing the first projects during April and May… won metaGen as a new client and will be working on selected PR projects for them…won the contract to provide PR and communications support to Akubio…been appointed by CSols to provide market research…been hired by Arakis to develop its new website…been working with Axxima on the editing of its annual report… been appointed by ACSC to work on new corporate identity and selected PR projects….been appointed by Fluent Europe to design, copywrite and produce a brochure.