Onyx, a business communications consultancy.
Onyx builds and protects the reputation of businesses through effective communications and strategic partnerships.
Our team has decades of experience working with everyone from start-ups to corporates, running businesses, advising government, creating PR strategies, working as journalists and engaging stakeholders across industry and the public sector.
Onyx offers a wide range of skills and services.
Reputation Management
Content Creation
Brand Review
Press Office and Media Relations
Comms Support
Crisis Management
Project and Campaign Planning and Delivery
Building Mutually Beneficial Partnerships
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Do you value your ‘people’, but use and abuse your contractors and suppliers? Why does that matter? In the nineteenth century organisations commonly believed that the command and control approach was the only way to manage people; business was no place for emotion. Employees were treated as little more than slaves by their employers and were worked as long and as… Read More
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Women make up just 14.4% of all people working in STE(A)M in the UK (The Guardian, March 2018). We have a keen interest in this subject as our Founder and MD, Anne Cantelo, led research and change programmes back in the early noughties and today we work with some of the leading female pioneers. What… Read More
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Recruiters don’t always have the best reputation. There are thousands of recruitment companies out there, all competing for the best candidates and the commission for placing them. But too many focus on slotting as many people as possible into roles without worrying about whether that’s right for the person or the recruiting organisation. If this… Read More
Continue ReadingI’ve worked with many agencies over the last 30 years, both large and small.,
We engaged Onyx because they combine communications skills with a very good understanding of business and some great contacts and experience.
We were astonished at the results Onyx achieved for us. They exceeded our expectations in every way. They were also fun and easy to work with. We recommend them wholeheartedly.
Onyx quickly understood our brief and were immediately engaged and pro-active. They were enthusiastic promoters of the event and, perhaps as importantly, were reassuring and attentive to our shortlisted entrepreneurs, some of whom had little experience in dealing with the media.
It was a pleasure working with Anne and her team on what was quite a big task of getting coverage for our new app in a very short space of time.
They provided great feedback throughout the project and worked hard on delivering against a pretty difficult brief.
All involved at Onyx maintained a professional approach and always acted in the best interests of us as a client – going the extra mile to support us.
