SECURI-GUARD NATIONAL MEDIA COVERAGE
DATE: 13/11/08
CLIENT: Securi-Guard Ltd - South West's largest independent supplier of security services.
BRIEF: Securi-Guard employed
PRCODE's services to maintain its public profile, particularly across local and regional media, but when the company was involved in tracking a stolen JCB digger across the UK and Europe we maximised the potential for much wider coverage.
SOLUTION: Given the strength of the story,
PRCODE chose to target the national media first to give the company a profile outside the region, its core business area. The strategy was then to focus on specialist and trade press and finally, local and regional. The publicity material was backed up by a number of key messages, to reinforce Securi-Guard's services to its sector:
KEY MESSAGES:
- Highlighting work of the Alarm Receiving Centre
- Skills of Securi-Guard staff in tracking stolen JCB
- Praise for the company's role in its recovery
- Reinforcing the scale of Securi-Guard's guarding and monitoring
BENEFITS: Significant national newspaper coverage in the Times, Daily Mirror and the Daily Telegraph's on-line section gave Securi-Guard a major public profile. This was supplemented by key specialist and trade coverage and local and regional press, including broadcast exposure through local BBC TV and its on-line news site.
TESTIMONIAL: Everyone at Securi-Guard was hugely impressed with the extent of coverage PRCODE achieved in relation to this press and Pr opportunity. While local and regional coverage is a priority to us, to gain national exposure on such a scale is extremely beneficial to us as a business.
Scott Boyd, Managing Director, Operations Securi-Guard.