On February 28th, the 4th Good Governance Forum Awards were held in Barcelona, with the participation of the president of the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), Sebastián Albella, the president of ATREVIA and the Good Governance Forum, Núria Vilanova and IESE professor, Joan Roure. The event was also attended by the CEO of Neinor Homes, Juan Velayos, and the executive director of CaixaBank’s and counsel to the Presidency, Juan Carlos Gallego. They collected awards for their companies, due to the...

The presence of women in listed companies of the continuous market has increased by 15% during 2017, adding to a total of 258 female directors, which represent 19.15% of the total 1,347 existing members of Boards of Directors. Though, significant, this increase still leaves women far from positions with executive functions and places the whole continuum very far from complying with the recommendation included in the Code of Good Governance of the CNMV, of having a 30% of female executives...

The Observatory of Internal Communication and Corporate Identity has awarded AXA, Vodafone, Tragsa, El Corte Ingles, DKV, Avianca and Habitissimo for their internal communication and corporate identity projects in 2017. The jury, composed of members of the Board of Directors and the Advisory Board of the Observatory of Internal Communication and Corporate Identity, has awarded 7 strategic communication projects aimed at the internal public that set trends in innovation and excellence. AXA has received the award for Best Internal Communication Campaign,...

We at ATREVIA just celebrated the 19-year-old anniversary of our Portugal office. We continue to advance steadily thanks to our commitment to innovation, extensive experience in 14 areas of PR and communication, the constant search for new services that adapt to the needs of our customers and to internationalization. We closed this 2017 with a global turnover of 19.7 million euros, an increase of 12% from 2016, with a multidisciplinary team that already reached more than 350 professionals in 16...

ATREVIA has been ranked top fourth consultant in the Corporate Responsibility and Governance ranking of the Corporate Reputation Business Monitor (MERCO) in Spain, a reputational evaluation instrument launched in 2000 whose process and results are subject to independent review by part of KPMG. A recognition of our effort and believe in the empowerment of communication as a transformational tool; generating knowledge, building relationships and betting on initiatives that imply progress and joint understanding. We recently presented the report, From Communication...

Last Friday, we celebrated our 19th anniversary with our colleagues in Lisbon and Oporto. For almost two decades under the direction of the president of ATREVIA Portugal, Ana Margarida, the team has continued to grow facing new projects and gaining the trust of large national and international clients. To the celebration in the offices located in the Avenida da Liberdade, business and financial heart of Lisbon, attended the entire board of directors formed by the president and founder of ATREVIA, Núria Vilanova;...

The XIII Report on Stockholders’ General Meetings of Companies in the IBEX has been presented, a study prepared by the Good Governance and the Stockholders Forum, led by ATREVIA and IESE. Attendance to the Association of Economic Information Journalists (APIE) was made by José Ramón Pin, co-chair of the Good Governance and Stockholders Forum and IESE professor, Asun Soriano, director of the Good Governance and Stockholders Forum and CEO of ATREVIA and Susana Graupera, director of forum studies. The purpose...

Asun Soriano, CEO of ATREVIA, has participated as a jury of the Fundación Secretariado Gitano 2017 Awards that recognize the commitment and effort of people or entities that develop an outstanding work in the defense and support of the Roma community. The external jury in charge of selecting the winners of this edition has been completed by Juan Manuel Solano, Human Resources Director, Southern Europe Division of the Gestamp engineering business group; Carmen García, President of the Tomillo Foundation, Francisco...

Alex Rodríguez, Digital Director of ATREVIA, has participated in a new Digital Talent series of IPMARK and Zoomin TV, to talk about the growing complexity of managing communication crises in a hyperconnected world. “The rules of the game have changed, there are new channels and actors involved in crisis management, all your stakeholders are in permanent connection in an inter-channel system, which requires companies to be more honest,” he says. He has also highlighted the importance of having a clear brand voice. In...

This weeks Top Communication magazine has published ATREVIA’s and WiZink work in their special: The Best Communication Campaigns of 2017. From ATREVIA we accepted the challenge of managing the change that led to the acquisition of the retail banking division Citi in Spain by Banco Popular, one of the most important financial entities in Spain. With this acquisition the bank wanted to become a modern, innovative, very technological company, with a fresh and neighboring image. This could not be achieved...

Next February 1st, there will be a breakfast held on: How technology is revolutionizing the health sector and what are the advantages it brings to patients, doctors and other health participants, the event is organized by tech company KABEL and ATREVIA. Cristina Rodiera, Health Department director at ATREVIA, will begin the presentation by discussing the advantages and benefits that technology provides to both the patient and to the professionals of the sector. José Tomás González, Marketing, Business Development & Partnerships...