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Profile of registrant

acumen public affairs

Identification number in the register: 85679286747-21
Registration date: 20/09/11 15:08:11

The information on this organisation was last modified on 25/01/13 13:58:59
The date of the last annual update was 04/09/12 10:35:04


Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual

Name/company name: acumen public affairs
Acronym:
Legal status: sprl
Website address: http://www.acumen-publicaffairs.com

Sections

Section: I - Professional consultancies/law firms/self-employed consultants
and more precisely: Professional consultancies

Person with legal responsibility

Surname, Name: Mrs  Elaine Cruikshanks
Position: Partner

Permanent person in charge of EU relations

Surname, Name: Mrs  Elaine Cruikshanks
Position: Partner

Contact details:

Contact details of organisation's head office: 227 Rue de la Loi 
P.O. box: 4
Brussels 1040
BELGIUM
Telephone number: (+32) 2 669 16 00
Fax number: (+32) 2 610 77 66
Other contact information:

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation: acumen public affairs is an independent consultancy set up in 2010 to combine the very best of big agency experience with hands-on senior support. Founding partners Elaine Cruikshanks, Abigail Jones and Giles Keane have an unrivalled track record in public affairs and strategic communications gained over more than 50 years of working for corporations, governments, trade associations, NGOs and international institutions in Brussels, Geneva and beyond.

acumen public affairs' philosophy is to provide clients with value adding strategic counsel and high quality execution – by the same people. When we commit to an assignment, this means personal supervision and implementation by Acumen partners from beginning to end. That way we can ensure that we deliver results and surpass expectations – and do so at competitive prices that only an independent agency can offer.

acumen public affairs believes in the power of taking an integrated approach to advocacy and communication to achieve outcomes that have a tangible impact on business performance. We have a track record of developing winning strategies that are sustainable, by identifying a confluence of interest among key stakeholders. In other words, we are skilled at squaring the circle between the private and public sectors and ordinary citizens by addressing the human aspects of issues in a regulatory or business context.
Level of interests represented:
  • national
  • European
  • global

Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register

Number of persons: 7
Complementary information:

Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises

First name Surname Start Date End Date
Elaine Jean CRUIKSHANKS 29/01/13 25/01/14
Giles Keane 29/01/13 25/01/14
Uzoamaka Madu 30/01/13 25/01/14
Sandamali Zbyszewski 01/02/13 25/01/14

Activities

Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:


F-Gas Regulation,
Eco-design Directive,
Energy Efficiency Directive,
Toy Safety Directive,
REACH,
MIFID,
CAP Reform,
Food Security,
Clinical Trials,
Transparency Directive,
Pharmacovigilance,
Directive on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes,
Waste Framework Directive,
Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive
Risk Management and Risk Communications.

Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;

Fields declared by the organisation:
  • Agriculture and Rural Development
  • Audiovisual and Media
  • Budget
  • Climate Action
  • Competition
  • Consumer Affairs
  • Customs
  • Development
  • Economic and Financial Affairs
  • Energy
  • Enterprise
  • Environment
  • Food Safety
  • General and Institutional Affairs
  • Home Affairs
  • Information Society
  • Internal Market
  • Justice and Fundamental Rights
  • Public Health
  • Research and Technology
  • Taxation
  • Trade
  • Transport

Networking

Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.




British Chamber of Commerce (BritCham)
American European Community Association (AECA)
EurActor by EurActiv

Financial data

Financial year: 01/2011 - 12/2011
Share of turnover related to representing interests to EU institutions on behalf of clients:
300000  € - 350000  €

Clients with turnover below 50000 €.
  • EFPIA - European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
  • Daikin
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Toy Industries of Europe - TIE
  • Cargill
  • Syngenta


Clients generating a turnover of 100000 € - 150000 €.
  • LEO Pharma

Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
Procurement: 0 €
Grants: 0 €
Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:

acumen public affairs is also active at international level notably in relation to WHO, WTO and WIPO.

Code of conduct

By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.