Oslo, 31. januar 2012 – Rådgivnings- og kommunikasjonsselskapet First House fortsetter sin fremgang. I 2011 økte selskapets inntekter med vel 40 prosent og resultatmarginen opprettholdes.

Byråinntekten for 2011 ble litt over 48 millioner kroner, og resultat før skatt endte på vel 9,5 millioner kroner.

-    Vi er meget fornøyd med både veksten og resultatet for 2011. Det bekrefter at vår kompetanse er etterspurt, og at tilfredsheten er stor blant våre kunder, sier partner og daglig leder Per Høiby.

Selskapets samlede driftsinntekter i 2011 økte med 35,8 prosent til 53,9 millioner kroner. Det er en økning på mer enn 14 millioner kroner fra året før. Korrigert for innkjøpte tjenester og varekostnader på 5,8 millioner kroner, endte den totale byråinntekten på 48,0 millioner. Det er en økning på 41,9 prosent fra året før.

-    Den solide veksten reflekterer at våre tjenester er etterspurt, og mangfoldet i vår kundemasse viser at vi treffer bredt. Blant våre oppdragsgivere finnes både store nasjonale og internasjonale foretak og mindre regionale bedrifter. I tillegg har vi oppdrag også for organisasjoner og offentlige virksomheter. Uten høy kvalitet i vår rådgivning og våre leveranser, hadde vi ikke klart å skape disse resultatene i løpet av de to årene som er gått siden oppstarten, sier Høiby.

Resultat før skatt for 2011 ble vel 9,5 millioner kroner, tilsvarende 19,9 prosent av byråinntekten. Dette er en økning på 38,5 prosent fra året før, samtidig som driftsmarginen er opprettholdt på samme, høye nivå.

-    Det gode resultatet er oppnådd gjennom svært dyktige medarbeidere. First House skal utvides med enda flere gode hoder i året som kommer. Vi får mange henvendelser som bekrefter at vi blir sett på som en attraktiv arbeidsplass, og hos oss skal både arbeidsoppgaver og betingelsene for øvrig speile at vi er ledende på vårt felt, sier Høiby.

Selskapet sysselsatte i gjennomsnitt 18,5 årsverk i 2011 mot 13,5 i 2010.

For mer informasjon:
Per Høiby, adm. direktør og partner i First House, mobil 994 55 225, e-post: ph@firsthouse.no

Kort om First House
First House er et rådgivningsselskap med senior kompetanse og fokus på analyse, strategi og gjennomføring for oppdragsgivere innen privat og offentlig sektor. Selskapet tilbyr sine tjenester med basis i fire fundamenter: Finansiell kommunikasjon, politisk kommunikasjon, virksomhetskommunikasjon herunder media- og krisehåndtering i tillegg til nysatsningen First House Media. First House Media tilbyr rådgivning på strategisk og operasjonelt nivå innenfor mediebransjen. First House hadde sin oppstart i januar 2010, og selskapet har nå 21 fast ansatte og 7 assosierte partnere. Selskapets byråinntekt var på 48 millioner kroner i 2011, og resultatet før skatt var på 9,5 millioner kroner. First House er en del av FIPRA og har dermed tilgang til et fremragende internasjonalt nettverk med rådgivere i mer enn 50 land, herunder samtlige land i Norden og EU. Nesten alle rådgivere i FIPRA har erfaring fra politisk virksomhet, som statsråder, statssekretærer, parlamentarikere eller departementalt byråkrati, eller fra fremstående posisjoner innen næringsliv, forbrukerorganisasjoner, frivillige, humanitære og miljøorganisasjoner (NGOs). First House er medlem i bransjeforeningen Norske Informasjonsrådgivere, Norsk Investor Relations forening og Abelia. For mer informasjon www.firsthouse.no

The specialist division has recently been appointed by leading fitted furniture specialists Sharps bedrooms, to conduct a social media campaign aiming to engage with a wider audience and further improve the brand’s online presence.

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Work is also already underway in helping online graduate recruitment specialists iPloy to recruit graduates as well as attracting employers to their service. iPloy is an online first in the recruitment industry, offering graduates the tools needed to land the perfect job, whilst enabling employers to make an informed decision before arranging a first interview, by offering digital CV’s, the ability to skype with the candidate, see a photo or even a video of a prospective candidate.

As a result of the new contracts, the team recently welcomed a new recruit to the Willoughby fold, Stephen Graham (pictured) who has just recently graduated with an MA in International Marketing (Dist.) from the University of Birmingham.

Jane Ainsworth, managing director at Willoughby PR said, “In addition to adding some fantastic new brands to the WPR stable and welcoming Stephen, we have launched a brand new, all singing, all dancing WPR Digital website created by our very own in-house art director. Whilst this has been a challenging year, WPR Digital has enjoyed steadily increasing success. We are all very optimistic and excited about where we are headed in the coming year.”

Willoughby PR is a multi award winning, top 150 Midlands based traditional and digital PR agency, working for clients the UK over across print, broadcast, digital and social media channels.

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Etter vulkanutbruddet i Eyjafjallajøkull i april 2010, falt antallet besøkende til Island betydelig. På grunn av dette, ble turistkampanjen Inspired by Iceland lansert, med det formålet  å øke det positive bildet av landet, og dermed oppmuntre folk til å besøke Island igjen.

Inspired by Iceland´s viktigste fokus var, og er fortsatt, å vise Island sine mange unike og tiltalende egenskaper gjennom enkeltpersoner som deler sine historier og minner fra landet. I tillegg har de organisert og holdt mange arrangementer over hele landet, blant annet på nettet, som viser Island sin kultur og vakre natur.

I juni 2010, ble Inspired by Iceland kampanjen satt i gang med en omfangsrik begivenhet, ”Iceland hour”. Hele Islands befolkning fikk muligheten, i en time, til å inspirere og oppmuntre folk over hele verden til å oppleve Island gjennom meldinger på nettet. Over en million meldinger og e-kort  ble sent, og Inspired by Iceland videoen ble lastet ned over en million ganger samme dagen. Twitter nådde over fem millioner personer ved samme anledning.

En annen betydelig prestasjon var ” Iceland Inspires” konserten, som ble holdt i sentrum av Reykjavik 1.juli 2010. Utekonserten, med blant annet Damien Rice, ble streamet live over nettet, som ga seere muligheten til å følge med hvor som helst i verden. Konserten viste seg til å bli en stor suksess med over nittitusen besøkende, fra femtito forskjellige land, som koblet seg på inspired by Iceland sin nettside.

På grunn av Inspired by Iceland sin suksess, har reiselivskampanjen fått en del anerkjennelse. De har blant annet vunnet ICCA prisen 2010, ble nominert til ”The Global Effie” prisen i Juni i år, i tillegg til å bli nominert til to priser på ”The European Excellence” prisen.

En stor økning i positiv omtale om Island, fra global media, er mye på grunn av Inspired by Iceland sin suksess. For eksempel, kort tid etter lanseringen av kampanjen, stemte USA TODAY Island som et topp reisemål for året 2011, og Lonely Planet listet Islands Westfjords som en av sine ”Topp 10 regioner å reise til i 2011” I tillegg ble Reykjavik valgt som det beste feriemålet for julen 2011 av CNN´s reiseside, CNNGO.

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For mer informasjon om Inspired by Iceland kampanjen, se www.inspiredbyiceland.com eller følg med på Twitter og Facebook.

Atlantic Studios at the Asbru Enterprise Park in Iceland offers filmmakers a wide variety of facilities including a 2,200 m² soundstage with an extra 2,800 m² for support areas, a 480 seat theatre for screenings and a swimming pool for ocean scenes. The studio is situated in a 5,000 m² aircraft hanger and with a surrounding 7,000 m² fenced studio lot.

Kadeco, owners of the Asbru Enterprise Park, recently announced that Promote Iceland would be marketing the film production studio after the two companies signed a contract in agreement. Promote Iceland will now be in charge of marketing Atlantic Studios in order to attract foreign film production companies and advertising agencies to Iceland.

The Iceland film studio is located just 5 minutes from Keflavik International Airport which has direct flights to major cities such as London, Copenhagen and New York.

Since its beginning, Atlantic Studios has accommodated the filming of several movies including The Good Heart, The Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre and Rokland. Additionally, large international productions such as Flags Of Our Father and Batman Begins have filmed on location in the beautiful Icelandic countryside.

For additional information about the hiring the film production studio in Iceland contact Kadeco on +354-425-2100 or info@kadeco.is and for additional information about the Asbru Enterprise Park, visit www.asbru.is/english/.

About Kadeco and Promote Iceland

Kadeco is a development company specialised in real-estate development, competitiveness and entrepreneurial development. Since 2006, Kadeco has led the transformation of the Keflavik navy base into the Asbru Enterprise Park.

Promote Iceland offers the services of marketing professionals and consultants in Iceland and abroad.Promote Iceland helps companies sell their products, services, and know-how in the international marketplace.

This comes after a very successful 2010 for Leeds based Bedfords, who decided it was time to expand its business network across the UK. As a member shareholder of the logistics network, Bedfords decided to make the move and invest fully in LinQ Alliance.

LinQ Alliance is a national logistics service provider focused on supplying cost effective supply chain management solutions. The network brings together a group of the country’s leading regional transport and distribution companies, and will remain under the same name, managing its existing networks and assets.

Bedfords has continued to grow over the last 12 months and shows no signs of slowing down with this latest acquisition. The company is renowned for its commitment to ensuring its service is on time and has an outstanding track record for accuracy and reliability.

Steff Pfadenhauer, Managing Director of Bedfords, said: “It is a logical move for us as we continue our move from being a regionally recognised haulier to a national one. We doubled in size last year and hope to do so again within the next two or three years, and the purchase of LinQ Alliance is part of that growth strategy. We have been members and shareholders in LinQ Alliance from the start, recognising the worth of working together with like minded companies to provide cost effective supply chain management solutions. We will continue the good work of LinQ Alliance, servicing customers and working with partners as before.”

For more information, visit http://www.bedfordstransport.co.uk/

Den årlige konference om sociale medier og internetmarkedsføring – Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference (RIMC) – vil blive afholdt den 11. marts 2011 i Smaralind Business Centre. RIMC er et essentielt netværksværktøj for markedsførings- og reklameentusiaster, webredaktører, salgs- og markedsføringschefer samt direktører for små og store virksomheder.

Under konferencen vil internationale talere inden for medier og markedsføring kaste lys over en række problemstillinger, som markedsføringsfolk står over for i dag. Disse eksperter kommer fra kendte virksomheder som Facebook, AOL, Yahoo! UK, Wall Street Journal, SAP og Hotels.com. Alle forelæsninger vil blive gennemført og præsenteret på engelsk.

Dette års talere omfatter: Rich Kelly, Facebook, Head of Mid Market Sales EMEA; Alex Bennert, Cindy Krum, forfatter og adm. dir. for Rank Mobile; Liana “Li” Evans, medstifter/adm. dir. for LiBeck Integrated Marketing, Wall Street Journal, Chief Search Strategist; David Main, Dominion Marine, Head of Search Marketing; Rand Fishkin, adm. dir./medstifter, SEOmoz; Oscar Carreras, Hotels.com, SEO Manager; Simon Heseltine, AOL Inc., Principal Marketing Manager News & Information Division; Alain Heureux, bestyrelsesformand/adm. dir., IAB Europe samt Preston Carey, Yandex, Business Development Manager USA/EU.

I årenes løb har arrangementet i gennemsnit tiltrukket 250 personer. RIMC afholdes i 2011 for ottende gang og bliver den største og mest succesrige internetmarkedsføringskonference i Island nogensinde.

Tidligere talere omfatter: Chris Sherman, Search Engine Land; Bill Hunt, IBM; Shari Thurow, Omni Marketing; Anne Kennedy, Beyond Ink; Mark Killingley, NFL; Sion Portman, NIKE; Ben Chapman, BBC; Adam Lasnik, Google; Mel Carson, Microsoft; Andy Atkins Kruger, WebCertain og Dennis Mortensen, Yahoo Analytics for blot at nævne nogle få.

I forbindelse med RIMC-konferencen vil der blive afholdt RIMC EXPO, hvor en lang række virksomheder udstiller deres produkter og tjenester inden for reklame, PR og internet. Dette weekendarrangement giver fremragende muligheder for P2P-netværksarbejde og for at få indblik i den seneste udvikling inden for markedsføring og reklame. RIMC EXPO 2010 havde mellem 12.000 og 15.000 deltagende i løbet af en weekend.

Hvis du vil vide mere om RIMC 2011, kan du gå ind på www.rimc.is/en

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Iceland’s center for entrepreneurship and enterprise park, Asbru has recently launched its new updated website. The website now has developed its usability for Asbru’s potential customers, allowing them to find the services they need more efficiently.

The Asbru Enterprise Park was formed at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) abandoned its military base in Keflavik, Iceland in 2006; with this departure, over 900 local people were left unemployed. However, the community looked at the possible opportunities with the space and consequently established the park.

Asbru has developed its website usability, helping the enterprise park in continuing to push its constant customer satisfaction and development.

The Enterprise Park prides itself in offering a varied selection of entrepreneurship, education and business facilities, including academic programs, aviation training, fitness development, medical tourism projects and Iceland’s first international data centre.

For further details on entrepreneurship and the Asbru Enterprise Park visit, http://asbru.is/English/