Most of us have heaps of experience working in the tough, unforgiving environment of a newspaper or news agency newsroom. Which means we don’t do waffle or padding — we get straight to the point, your point, the point your stakeholders want and need to know.
Words, design, graphics, layout and look and feel must all be subservient to the messaging. So we work as an integrated team to get the job done expeditiously (a fancy word which simply means “quickly”) and effectively.
Most of us have heaps of experience working in the tough, unforgiving environment of a newspaper or news agency newsroom. Which means we don’t do waffle or padding — we get straight to the point, your point, the point your stakeholders want and need to know.
Words, design, graphics, layout and look and feel must all be subservient to the messaging. So we work as an integrated team to get the job done expeditiously (a fancy word which simply means “quickly”) and effectively.
Content director:
Peter Delmar
Peter is one of Africa’s leading writers of integrated reports, having written such reports for ArcelorMittal South Africa (overall winner of the 2015 and 2016 Nkonki JSE Top 100 <IR> awards), Bidcorp, AECI, Sasol, Vodacom, Impala Platinum, Pick ‘n Pay, , Alexander Forbes, Santam, Rand Refinery, Zarclear and others.
In addition to writing and editing the ArcelorMittal SA report, Peter has initiated a number of innovations for the company’s report including the presentation and structure of information, King IV reporting, having the report-compilation process independently assured and overhauling how corporate-governance information is conveyed. The report’s approach to the latter (governance) was recently cited as an example of best practice by the Integrated Reporting Committee of SA in an information paper which the committee asked Peter to review.
The ArcelorMittal SA IR won best report awards in the Chartered Secretaries Southern Africa IR awards in 2016, 2017 and 2018 (and a second place in 2019 and 2023).
A B.Journ graduate of Rhodes University, Peter is a former chief reporter and deputy news editor of Business Day, his experience including five years as a subeditor at the Sunday Times. As such, he is an extremely experienced copy editor with a strong grasp of grammar and the ability to structure written communications that convey precise meaning and are compelling and intelligible to a variety of audiences.
Peter has written various corporate history books and, for seven years, wrote a weekly humorous business column for the Times newspaper. He has authored five other books and, most recently, published three audio location-based travel apps. He writes opinion pieces and features, online and other digital content.
Creative director:
Hilary Gush
Hilary consults to a number of large corporate clients on strategic communications. The annual integrated reports she writes and works on are among those that are setting benchmarks in the industry and facilitating a move towards more integrated thinking and communications.
After graduating with an honours degree in economics from the University of Cape Town in 1991, Hilary worked as an economics correspondent for Business Day newspaper in Johannesburg.
She then spent 12 years as an equities and economics editor and correspondent for Reuters, working in London, Johannesburg and Dubai. In these roles, she visited many other countries across the Middle East and Africa on reporting trips. In numerous training sessions, she also devoted much energy to developing the skills of new correspondents in these two regions.
Hilary then went on to edit equities research for a large European investment bank in Johannesburg, before setting up coreporting.co.za with Peter Delmar. She now advises corporate clients on how best to communicate with their stakeholders, and in particular on how to get their messages on strategy right.
She believes in telling the story straight and that there is simply no room for spin in corporate communications.