PNoy's comms team morphs into 'crisis' PR firm
http://interaksyon.com/business/1372...crisis-pr-firm
Half a year after leaving Malacanang, the top PNoy communications officials have regrouped to embark on a new mission - offering strategic and "crisis" communications counseling and reputational management for corporate and other paying clients.
Aquino administration spokespersons Edwin Lacierda, Abigail Valte, and Manuel Quezon III have formed the DDI-TBM Consultancy Corp. doing business as DDI Strategic Communications, pitching their Malacanang experience and their political and media connections to their target clients.
"I and our company, DDI Strategic Communications, are fully equipped with assisting our clients navigate through the new media landscape and providing a strategic communications framework and solutions to improve their reputation in the public eye as well as craft a crisis communications package that prepare them to handle a crisis before, during or after it happens," said Lacierda in their new Facebook page.
According to the grapevine, the new venture has a paid-up capital of P2. 5 million, with Lacierda, as chief executive officer, contributing nearly P1.5 million, Valte another P1 million, and Quezon, as one of the five incorporators-founding directors, shelling out P75,000.
DDI Strategic Communications listed its principal office at 11 Brixton St. in Barangay Kapitolyo, Pasig, sharing the same address as that of sports store chain Stoked, HitchPro Philippines, and Filstar Distributors/Hallmark cards.
Despite being prolific Twitter users, Valte and Quezon did not return emails seeking comment about their shared office address, the provenance of their corporate name and, more important, the challenges of attracting corporate clients given their group's continuing opposition to the Duterte administration.
Another Aquino-era spokesman, former broadcaster Ricky Carandang, said he was not affiliated with DDI in any way, having "retired from politics" with his return to the Lopez Group.
And despite their similar acronyms and line of business, the US-based Development Dimensions International (DDI), clarified that neither the Pittsburgh headquarters of the global human resources consulting firm nor its Manila branch is related to Lacierda's DDI operations.
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http://interaksyon.com/business/1372...crisis-pr-firm
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Half a year after leaving Malacanang, the top PNoy communications officials have regrouped to embark on a new mission - offering strategic and "crisis" communications counseling and reputational management for corporate and other paying clients.
Aquino administration spokespersons Edwin Lacierda, Abigail Valte, and Manuel Quezon III have formed the DDI-TBM Consultancy Corp. doing business as DDI Strategic Communications, pitching their Malacanang experience and their political and media connections to their target clients.
"I and our company, DDI Strategic Communications, are fully equipped with assisting our clients navigate through the new media landscape and providing a strategic communications framework and solutions to improve their reputation in the public eye as well as craft a crisis communications package that prepare them to handle a crisis before, during or after it happens," said Lacierda in their new Facebook page.
According to the grapevine, the new venture has a paid-up capital of P2. 5 million, with Lacierda, as chief executive officer, contributing nearly P1.5 million, Valte another P1 million, and Quezon, as one of the five incorporators-founding directors, shelling out P75,000.
DDI Strategic Communications listed its principal office at 11 Brixton St. in Barangay Kapitolyo, Pasig, sharing the same address as that of sports store chain Stoked, HitchPro Philippines, and Filstar Distributors/Hallmark cards.
Despite being prolific Twitter users, Valte and Quezon did not return emails seeking comment about their shared office address, the provenance of their corporate name and, more important, the challenges of attracting corporate clients given their group's continuing opposition to the Duterte administration.
Another Aquino-era spokesman, former broadcaster Ricky Carandang, said he was not affiliated with DDI in any way, having "retired from politics" with his return to the Lopez Group.
And despite their similar acronyms and line of business, the US-based Development Dimensions International (DDI), clarified that neither the Pittsburgh headquarters of the global human resources consulting firm nor its Manila branch is related to Lacierda's DDI operations.