We provide strategies that enable companies to achieve their business goals, define and deliver their messages to market, and build their reputation in the eyes of stakeholders.

Our Corporate Affairs team works in close consultation with chief executives, and their leadership teams, to develop and implement communication plans congruent with clients' business strategies and operations. Our core services include:

• Communication strategy
• CEO preparation, presentation and positioning
• CEO 'Insights' ('thought leadership')
• Business media positioning and management
• Stakeholder engagement and partnering
• Corporate collateral

Our Reputation and Stakeholder Management team provides development, maintenance and/or protection of an organisation's reputation in combination with extensive internal and external stakeholder management. We position reputation and stakeholder management as a fundamental aspect of business sustainability and recognise reputation as a valid influence on organisational value. Our core services include:

• Communication strategy
• Stakeholder engagement
• Issues and crisis management
• Facilitation and consultation
• Media management
• Perception studies
• Community modelling

Our Investor Communication team provides public companies with outsourced strategy and program implementation to maximise the positive impact on shareholder value. We also provide specialist, intensive support to corporate leaders during major transactions, capital raisings and financial restructurings. Our core services include:

• Investor/stakeholder research and analysis
• Investor/analyst presentations - planning, design and preparation
• Investor briefings/road shows - planning and management
• Investor enquiry management
• Financial results management
• Financial media positioning
• Initial public offering support - pre and post listing
• Mergers and acquisitions, MBOs
• Annual report/annual general meeting management
• Share trading reports
• Market perception studies

Our Business Strategy team develops feasibility studies, economic impact assessments, business plans and economic development strategies for businesses, governments (national, state, local) and the industry sector. Our core services include:

• Strategy development
• Industry analysis
• Opportunity assessments
• Organisational review

Our Public Policy team reviews policies and programs for governments and helps shape industry policy environments for businesses. Our core services include:

• Policy development
• Evaluation and review
• Government relations

Buchan uses proven methods grounded in theory and refined through many years of application. We pride ourselves on being responsive and accessible to our clients, take great care to provide detailed evaluations and analyses of the results of our work, and are typically 'hands on' with our clients, meeting regularly to discuss the requirements, the progress and the results of our work.