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By Maisey McGinnis Pre-pandemic, I always pictured what my first internship experience might look like: commuting to a fancy office building in downtown Los Angeles or Century City, sitting around a big conference room table at company staff meetings, and maybe even attending a lunch or two with local reporters,...

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In the News, Minding Media, Public Relations

PondelWilkinson’s CEO Roger Pondel was among the speakers of a panel discussion hosted by the Association For Corporate Growth – Silicon Valley that provided keen insight on the impact of social justice movements on corporate brands and reputations. Click to watch the full discussion below.

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In the News, Thoughts from Pondel
Roger Pondel of PondelWilkinson provides commentary for the San Fernando Business Journal's special report titled, "Public Companies Prosper in Pandemic."...
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Investor Talk, Thoughts from Pondel, Uncategorized

This article was originally published by national news wire service BusinessWire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, on its global blog July 9. If you’re familiar with the British sci-fi fantasy series, Doctor Who, you know that a common plot device is the use of “perception filters,” in which aliens attempt to alter reality...

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In the News, In-The-Know IRO, Investor Talk, Market Talk, Uncategorized
It is nearly impossible these days to avoid SPACs, which many know by now stands for Special Purpose Acquisition Companies. Roger Pondel and Laurie Berman of PondelWilkinson explore the rise and future success of SPACs....
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Investor Talk, Market Talk, Public Relations, Thoughts from Pondel
Over the recent months, PondelWilkinson conducted an anecdotal survey among those with whom we regularly interface – corporate executives, analysts, business journalists, investors, among others....
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Thoughts from Pondel

Each year, the Wilkinson Memorial Scholarship is awarded to a first-year strategic public relations graduate student with an interest in corporate/investor relations and reputation management. We recently had the pleasure to meet this year’s scholarship award recipient, Madeline Leon, a graduate student at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism,...

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By this stage in the pandemic, most of you have spent time working from home. According to Deloitte, more than 40 percent of U.S. workers were working from home full-time as of June 2020. Further, on average, CEOs expect 36 percent of their employees to be working remotely in January...

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Having days of ups and downs? Divisiveness and polarization causing the blues? You are not alone. A national survey we just commissioned on behalf of a client that provides tele-counseling to hundreds of anxious and stressed-out people each week shows that nearly 8 in 10 Americans are worried about the...

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I hope this email finds you well. We all have come across this frustrating opening salvo at one time or another from some unknown person, touting a product or service that is of very little or no interest. The good news is that email marketing campaigns have evolved. Technology and...

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A Matter of Compliance, Investor Talk, Thoughts from Pondel
The proposed new SEC Form 13-F rules represent a huge step backwards to a time when issuers and the investing public had very little information about stock ownership....
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In-The-Know IRO, Market Talk, Thoughts from Pondel

Those who live in Southern California fully understand the terms “May gray” and “June gloom.” It’s that time of year when the sun comes out late afternoon. The temperature isn’t that cold, but gloominess permeates the air and stays around for most of the daylight hours. Most people hate it....

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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” The words were spoken by Martin Luther King Jr. It is in that spirit, and at this sad time for our country, we put our core communications expertise to work with messages...

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In-The-Know IRO, Investor Talk, Uncategorized

While activist activity was down a bit in the first quarter of 2020, compared with last year’s first quarter, according to Activist Insight’s “Shareholder Activism in Q1 2020” report, there were still plenty of shareholder demands made of public companies. By sector, industrials was the largest group impacted by activism,...

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If history has taught us anything, it’s that we should learn from it. Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), financial markets continue to be rattled, as the U.S. and other global economies desperately try to respond to the pandemic. Global travel, entertainment, sporting events and conferences all are being...

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As part of our “back-to-basics” blog series on the foundational tenants of our business, we

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Leveraging a perception audit and investor day to achieve a 50% market cap gain.
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Inside the strategy that turned skepticism into market momentum.
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We recently had the distinct pleasure of meeting with Samantha Campos-Esquivel, a graduate student at