We do humbly resolve…

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

As we all met around the kettle yesterday morning, on our first day back in the office after the holidays, discussion inevitably turned to New Year’s resolutions. This is a conversation that never fails to depress me. I can only look back in abject horror at the mockery 2011 made ...

A GCSE student’s view of PR

Monday, October 24th, 2011

We were delighted to welcome 15-year-old Anya Draycott to Peppermint PR last week, as she completed a week’s work experience as part of her year 11 studies. We thought we’d go the whole hog and give her a blog spot too! Over to Anya... Last week, I was fortunate enough ...

Does reading Grazia make us thick?

Monday, June 20th, 2011

Are middle-class women losing their intellectual edge by wallowing in celeb news rather than current affairs? That’s the question that continued to rumble in the weekend papers following the recent publication of  Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World by American lawyer and television commentator ...

The tweet that lost a client

Friday, June 17th, 2011

News that an LA-based PR agency was unceremoniously dumped this week after it sent a thoughtless tweet comes as no surprise. The company in question – Redner Group – got sacked by its biggest client, a video game publisher, after its MD tweeted it would punish bad reviews of its ...

Another PR achievement? We’d like to think so

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

  As PR consultants, we’re a creative bunch of people who enjoy developing ideas that will grab attention. We’re also self-confessed word geeks who have lots of fun playing around with syntax and grammar. My name’s Lucy and I’m a word geek. There – I’ve said it. We love coining a new ...