Who We Are

Fleishman-Hillard Vanguard is a great team of experienced professionals. In our agency, communications is about delivering results for our clients at the point of impact.

We have an outstanding track record, plus extensive experience, consulting and strategic planning capabilities, execution excellence, and management and personnel with a wealth of knowledge and experience. We nurture our long-term relationships with local, federal, regional, and international media, including news, business, vertical, lifestyle, glossy, online and broadcast. We also use a wide network of contacts with opinion leaders, trendsetters, and decision-makers. Our clients are our best credentials, and we are honored to work with local and global market leaders in many categories.

Fleishman-Hillard Vanguard practices ethical and politically correct public relations and supports raising the level of public relations professionalism in Russia. We hold individual and corporate memberships in many local and international organizations, including IPRA, IABC, PRSA, Russian Public Relations Association, and Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. We are a founding member of AKOS. Today, Elena Fadeeva, general director of Fleishman-Hillard Vanguard, is the chairwoman of the board of this organization for 2008-2009.

AKOS is the Russian Consultancies Association – the country organization of International Communications Consultancy Organization (ICCO), which was founded in 1986 and currently unites 28 national associations. There are more than 1,000 agencies and 25,000 PR professionals under an ICCO roof today. (www.akospr.ru).

AKOS was founded March 16, 1999. The association consists of Russian public relations agencies working in the field of public relations, corporate and marketing communications, and investor relations. AKOS unites 25 of the largest and most professional companies today, which are responsible for 50 percent of the Russian public relations services market. AKOS members employ more than 1,500 PR professionals (www.akospr.ru).

Globally, Fleishman-Hillard is known for the delivery of successful communications campaigns for its clients. That was true in the 1940s, when the company was founded, and is still true today in the complex media landscape that clients face. Throughout its history, Fleishman-Hillard has focused on its motto: “To make ourselves as valuable to our clients as they are to us…”®

Throughout the years, Fleishman-Hillard has won an unprecedented 94 Silver Anvil Awards, 84 CIPRA/SABRE Awards, and numerous other international awards. In 2006, the agency received the Outstanding Program of the Year Award in the U.S. and European SABRE competitions. And in 2007, Fleishman-Hillard was named Best Large Agency to Work For by Paul Holmes of The Holmes Report.

In 2008, John D. Graham, Fleishman-Hillard chairman of the board, has become the first agency recipient of the SABRE Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Public Relations.