Hallvarsson & Halvarsson and K-Street Advisors cooperates

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

The consultancy firms Hallvarsson & Halvarsson and K-Street Advisors have entered into a cooperation agreement to complement and extend their advisory services within the specialist areas of financial communication/Investor Relations, Public Affairs and brand profiling.

As communication takes on ever greater strategic importance within companies and organisations, manager and directors are demanding a more holistic approach in their cooperation with suppliers, with both breadth and depth. To meet this demand, Hallvarsson & Halvarsson and K-Street Advisors are combining a leading position within financial communication with specialist expertise in the relationship between politics and the economy.

“We have already worked on joint customer projects where the combination of our areas of expertise has been exploited to the full. This kind of service is valued and sought after. We can now offer an end-to-end service and, at the same time, continue to develop our respective specialisms,” says Anders Halvarsson, CEO of Hallvarsson & Halvarsson

“Working together to broaden and deepen our service offering puts us in a strong competitive position when customers are choosing new cooperation partners. Both firms are best in their class, and thus even better together,” says Lars Thalén, chairman of the board of K-Street Advisors.

Hallvarsson & Halvarsson and K-Street Advisors collaborate when working for joint customers, but operate under their own brands. Both companies intend to continue developing their own specialist areas of expertise, but by working together they are able to offer a full service within the communication disciplines. Their collaboration combines IR, web-based communication solutions, public affairs, polling expertise, strategic consultancy and crisis communication.

Hallvarsson & Halvarsson has a staff of 60 and is Scandinavia's leading consultancy firm within the field of financial communication. H&H is the hub of a Scandinavian  network and cooperates globally with Financial Dynamics.
K-Street Advisors, which was established in 2005, currently has four partners and cooperates with other specialist companies within the field of stakeholder management in an independent European network.

Further information:
Anders Halvarsson, CEO Hallvarsson & Halvarsson: +46 8 587 112 50; www.halvarsson.se
Lars Thalén, Chairman of the Board at K-Street Advisors: +46 709 200 665; www.kstreet.se