Case Studies – Entrepreneurs and Business PR

Duncan Bannatyne 

Duncan Bannatyne, is one of Britain’s most respected and well recognised entrepreneurs and philanthropists. His business interests include hotels, health clubs, spas, media, TV, stage schools, property and transport. However, Duncan is most famous for being a founder member of the hit BBC series Dragon’s Den. Duncan came to PHA Media to handle his personal PR relations. 

Greg Secker 

Greg is an ex city trader who decided to start his own company, Knowledge to Action, which is based in London and teaches people to trade on the Foreign Exchange markets. PHA Media were enlisted  to help raise both Greg’s personal profile and the profile of his business. We also work closely with Greg to increase media awareness of his charity initiative, Flying Trader, where Greg calls trades from his helicopter above the City and all brokerage fees go to Barnardos and the Ubuntu Education Fund in South Africa.

Jamie Waller

Jamie Waller  is best known for being the face of  of hit BBC shows ‘Beat the Baliff’ and ‘Enforcer’s.’ Following his early media success Jamie has spent several years building his business – The JBW Group – into one of the UK’s leading debt management organisations. Jamie approached PHA Media seeking representation and guidance , following a number of requests asking him to step back into the media spotlight.

John Griffin

Secret Millionaire John Griffin is known as, ‘The Minicab Monarch,’ after building  Addison Lee into Europe’s largest taxi fleet with over 3,000 vehicles and turnover approaching £200 million. John came to PHA Media to build upon the success of his appearance on the hit Channel 4 show to create a media presence around his success with Addison Lee.

Lee McQueen

After winning the Apprentice in 2008, Lee McQueen went on to work under Lord Sugar for two years before establishing his first solo business project – Raw Talent Academy. Raw Talent Academy aims to provide SME’s and corporate organisations with the vehicle to build internal sales academies into long term staffing plans and to encourage organisations to look at the wider raw talent we have in the UK and not just graduates.

Mandy Haberman 

Mandy Haberman is a successful entrepreneur, UK inventor and an inspirational mum. She is the inventor of the Haberman Feeder and the AnywayUp Cup®, the world’s first non-spill cup for children. The cup has had phenomenal worldwide success selling millions of units a year.  Mandy has won many prestigious awards for her innovative inventions and was named British Female Inventor of the Year in 2000 and recognized by HM Queen Elizabeth as a ‘Pioneer to the Life of the Nation’ in 2003.

Mark Lovell 

Mark Lovell is an entrepreneurial business leader who has led the strategy for the growth of A4e over the last twenty years. Having joined as its first employee, he is now A4e’s Executive Chairman. Mark has taken the company from a start-up to a £250m-turnover business that employs over 3,500 people internationally. A4e is a leading force in global public service reform, with over 250 branches including international outlets with services as far afield as India and Australia. 

Maxxim Consulting 

Maxxim Consulting are one of the UK’s most dynamic and innovative consultancy firms, working with prestigious clients such as The Royal Mail, Oxford University and The Prince’s Trust. Maxxim came to PHA Media to help raise their media profile and the profile of their partners, Claire Arnold, Tim Ringo and Sozen Leimon. 

Nicolas Jervis

Nicholas Jervis is one of the UK’s leading legal entrepreneurs. Formally a practising solicitor for 14 years, Nicholas now heads up Loyalty Law, one of the UK’s top claims firms. Nicholas came to PHA Media to help him to raise his profile as a legal entrepreneur and to help raise public awareness of Loyalty Law’s services.

Nicholas Trimmatis

Nicholas Trimmatis is a high-end property developer who has been involved in luxury property for 17 years. The Property PR team at PHA Media were tasked with raising Nicholas’s personal profile, raising the profile of his development in Beaufort Gardens, and assisting with branding and website material.

Nigel Botterill

Nigel Botterill is the founder of the Entrepreneurs Circle – one of the UK’s leading organisations dedicated at helping entrepreneurs. Over the years Nigel has helped over 2000 people set up businesses across the UK and has some incredible success stories. He is also well known for setting up the UK’s leading franchise ‘thebestof’ and is one of the top directories for small businesses in the country.

Rich Martell

Rich Martell is the UK’s answer to Mark Zuckerberg, running one of the UK’s most successful start-up companies in the infamous  ‘Silicon Roundabout’ region of London. One of the most exciting and dynamic internet entrepreneurs in the UK, Rich hit the headlines in 2010, when during his university days he set up the website FitFinder. In early 2011, Floxx was launched and the location based social network has gone from strength to strength. 

Rob Lloyd 

Rob Lloyd is a millionaire property developer. Outside of business he is most recognised  as taking part in the hit Channel 4 TV series, Secret Millionaire. As part of the show, Rob left the property game behind to go undercover in the protestant Shankill Road in Belfast. PHA Media were tasked with raising Rob’s personal profile, enhancing the visibility of his business assets and drawing media attention to the legal case surrounding a corrupt property lawyer that he is fighting to bring to justice.

Liam Dom & Sam Chaudhary

Liam Dom and  Sam Chaudhary are two successful entrepreneurs who have extensive experience across the education and technology sectors. Together, they created ClassDojo – a unique and innovative real-time behaviour management tool for teachers.  Sam and Dom chose PHA Media to raise their profile in both the UK and USA and to position them as education and technology experts. 

Sam Malin 

Sam Malin is the pioneer behind the oil industry in Madagascar. Before establishing Avana in 2008, he founded Madagascar Oil and was the originator of its giant heavy oil field projects. As its CEO, he built it from scratch into a $1¼ billion dollar company. Sam came to PHA Media to help increase awareness of his new company, The Avana Group, and to enhance his reputation in the media as an oil industry expert. 

Simon Dolan

Simon Dolan is the owner of SJD Accountancy,  one of the UK’s fastest growing accountancy firms. The company specialises in the contractor sector and owner Simon  is a regular media commentator on issues relating to the single person company and entrepreneurs.  Thanks to PHA Media, Simon has also found fame at the UK’s first ‘Twitter Dragon,’ inviting entrepreneurs to pitch   their innovative business ideas to him via twitter in 140 characters or less.

 Terry Koutsious

Terry Koutsious is the  founder of  quirky and innovative website fivesquids.co.uk . Today, the site is rapidly becoming one of  the fastest growing online communities, where people share their unique skills, knowledge and expertise – all for just £5. Terry  came to PHA Media to help increase traffic and drive new members to the website – with terrific results.

Vin- X 

Specialist fine wine investment broker, Vin-X Limited,  give their investors the opportunity to own some of the best performing investment wines in the world. Vin -X came to PHA Media to increase public awareness of the benefits of wine as an alternative investment option and to raise the profile of their brand.