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Pegasus, an Ashfield company, part of UDG Healthcare plc, last night scooped its fifth ‘consultancy’ award of the year at the PRCA Awards in London’s Park Lane where it secured the title of Specialist Consultancy of the Year 2016.
Pegasus’ award-winning season started in Berlin in June where it picked up the title of
EMEA Healthcare PR Consultancy of the Year at the SABRE Awards. The consultancy then went on to add the esteemed
Communique Communications Consultancy of the Year award to its honors in July. In October, the company was crowned both
Specialist Consultancy of the Year at the PR Week UK Awards and Global Healthcare PR Consultancy of the Year at the Global SABRE Awards. Last night’s win cemented its position as the UK’s leading integrated healthcare communications consultancy.
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Pegasus has a mission to
‘inspire healthy decisions’ through its own brand of integrated communications.
The consultancy take a ‘health first, sector second’ approach to its work and
its campaigns are informed by its proprietary CHANGE planning model, developed
from UCL’s COM-B behaviour change theory.
Simon Hackett, Managing
Director at Pegasus, commented: “We are all totally blown away by this news and
are delighted to have received five such prestigious consultancy titles! Our
success has certainly been a result of our truly integrated offer, our robust
approach to planning, our creative thinking, and a focus on best of breed
client servicing. But most of all, it’s down to our fantastic people who this
year, with pride, enthusiasm and a real dedication to our mission of inspiring
healthy decisions, have delivered some of the most creative, persuasive and
challenging campaigns to have come out of our industry, all made possible by
the support of our clients.”
Pegasus was acquired by UDG
Healthcare plc in April 2016 and has joined Ashfield Healthcare Communications,
part of the Ashfield Commercial & Medical Services division. For further
information, please visit www.thisispegasus.co.uk or www.ashfieldhealthcare.com.
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Press enquiries:
Please
contact Amy Simmons at Pegasus 01273 712 000 asimmons@thisispegasus.co.uk
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About Pegasus
Located in
Brighton with a 110-strong team of communications experts, Pegasus specialises
in helping private and public sector organisations communicate healthy messages
through integrated communications programmes.
Focusing on an overall mission of ‘inspiring healthy decisions’ and driven
by a ‘health first, sector second’ approach, Pegasus has an award-winning track
record of creating and implementing campaigns that inspire behaviour change. The
Pegasus approach starts with strategic planning based on behaviour change
methodology and blends earned, owned and paid for marketing services including
media relations, corporate communications, creative, social and digital.
Pegasus develops integrated campaigns which engage multiple audiences from
consumers, patients and HCPs to influencers and other stakeholder groups.
Pegasus has a strong focus on measuring campaign effectiveness and best
practice in evaluation. In April 2016, Pegasus was acquired by Ashfield
Commercial and Medical Services, part of UDG Healthcare plc. For further
information, please visit www.thisispegasus.co.uk
About Ashfield
Ashfield
Commercial & Medical Services, part of UDG Healthcare plc, is a global
leader in providing outsourced healthcare services to pharmaceutical, device
and biotech companies. The company has 6,000 employees, operating in 22
countries and delivering services in over 50 countries across Europe, North
America, South America and Asia and works with more than 250 companies,
including all the world’s top 25 pharmaceutical companies. Its mission is to
partner with its clients, improving lives by helping healthcare professionals
and patients get the medicines, knowledge and support they need. Ashfield’s
provides contract sales teams, customer service reps, medical science liaison
officers, remote detailing, nurse educators, medical information, healthcare
communications, market access, market research, training, event management,
digital, creative and pharmacovigilance services. For more information, go to
www.ashfieldhealthcare.com