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.
Over the recent months, PondelWilkinson conducted an anecdotal survey among those with whom we regularly interface – corporate executives, analysts, business journalists, investors, among others.
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, who is now studying to […]
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 2022, up from 13 percent […]
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 country’s future. The survey also […]
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 social media are enabling email […]
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.
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. This year, at least for […]
“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 of universal resolve toward bringing […]
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, followed by financial services and […]
