Eligo International Limited

Eligo International is a dynamic and well-established public relations and public affairs company offering its clients innovative, creative and competitively priced communications solutions. Our experienced team of communications experts are engaged in developing and pro-actively executing the communications needs of statesmen and public figures, governments, diplomatic missions, senior corporate and industry leaders at home and abroad.

From our inception, this has embraced all aspects of client communications including media relations, issues and crisis management, economic, trade, tourism and cultural promotion, co-ordination of VIP visits, as well as personal profiling and reputation management programmes.

Our high-level assignments, which can range from one off short-term projects to multi-year programmes, are run from Eligo’s Central London headquarters and through its strategic partners around the world.

Founded in 1997 by Anthony Bailey, Eligo International has led the way in three principal disciplines – international diplomacy, reputation management and public affairs. We are recognised for our discreet hands-on frank advice and ultimately, for the results we produce.

International Diplomacy and its communications needs

For governments, diplomatic missions and other official bodies, Eligo leads the way in co-ordinating and implementing the many complex communications requirements needed in today’s 24 hour global diplomatic environment. The company, whose executives often come from prominent government, diplomatic and parliamentary backgrounds, has become an important addition globally to a government’s or diplomatic mission’s function of promoting and enhancing bilateral ties.

Eligo International have worked in unison with its clients to achieve key objectives and to maximise client opportunities. This includes work at international forums such as the European Union in Brussels, the GATT/WTO summits in Geneva and Marrakech, as well as at Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings. In the trade and tourism arena we have developed ministerial strategies from the World Travel Market in London to the International Tourism Exchange in Berlin. The company is also active in building client’s political and parliamentary links with national parliaments and governments as well as improving economic and political environments across six continents.

Our expert media team have developed and successfully launched media campaigns for government bodies and diplomatic missions which have raised the awareness of a country’s economic, political, cultural, tourism, opportunities and attractiveness. We have also in times of national and international trouble succeeded in defending a country’s image against media and public attack through setting up issues and crisis management systems. Recent examples have included the terrorist attacks on tourists in Egypt, political and economic crisis in Peru, as well as around bilateral VIP visits such as for the President of Sri Lanka on her visit to Britain.

Corporate communications

Eligo also meets the high demands of corporate communications and the company has developed successful programmes to meet the needs of leading industrial, transport, consumer, property, tourism and financial businesses including market entry strategies

and special and VIP events programmes. This work, which can be as much behind the scenes as in public, has in recent years included Shell International, BAE SYSTEMS, General Mediterranean Holdings, Raffles Group of Companies and Shell Companies in Saudi Arabia.

Philanthropic and charitable foundations

Since the launch of Eligo, the company has played a key role in the promotion of national and international philanthropic and charitable foundations and organisations across the world. In recent years, this has included pro-actively profiling to key opinion formers and decision markers each foundation and organisation and its leadership. A number of Eligo’s key executives come from the charity

and philanthropic field and work with our clients in establishing worthy exchange programmes between similar organisations and state personalities. Examples of our recent work are for the King Faisal Foundation of Saudi Arabia whom we linked up with Britain’s Prince’s Foundation to form what was heralded as the largest cultural exchange programme between the two countries. Other client examples include The Prince of Venice Foundation, Espirito Santo Foundation of Portugal and the newly established Arab Thought Foundation.

Eligo’s flexibility and competitive pricing structure

Due to Eligo's size, the company guarantees flexibility and allows its senior partners to be constantly available for their clients during each project or programme, thereby avoiding the bureaucratic organisation so commonly seen with larger multi-national communications groups. Many of our executives are also full members of the leading industry think tanks and self-regulatory bodies such as the International Public Relations Association, the Charted Institute of Public Relations in the UK, the Foreign Press Association and in the political field, the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Today’s Eligo executives, have in large part come to Eligo from some of the world’s leading communications and consulting firms yet we have established a competitive pricing structure which makes Eligo International affordable for clients of all sizes.

In short, our wealth of experience and the determination to provide innovative, high quality, competitively priced services ensure both our current and prospective government and corporate clients the best communications solutions. Our effective coverage of Europe’s geography, as well as our extensive network of associates around the globe, make us an ideal partner for the global, national or local communications needs of our clients.