de Fossard Communications offers specialist communications and consultancy across a number of sectors.

With specialist knowledge of the fresh produce industry, the food and drink market, European agriculture and agritech, and the growing fintech revolution, we advise businesses on media and publicity strategy, and help them find the most effective ways of speaking to customers and breaking into new markets.

We offer clients a dedicated, specialist and international team to deliver results. Our work includes press campaigns in the fresh produce industry, and assisting clients break into strategic and competitive international markets across Europe and beyond.

de Fossard Communications is focused on bringing out each client’s most compelling stories, and telling them to the audience that matters, whether it is a specific demographic, national or local governments, or an entirely new market which is ripe for expansion.

The global economy never stops changing, and is always offering opportunities for businesses willing to seize them.

International trade can be daunting for many businesses. We have established an expert network across the globe to help British businesses break into new markets with ease.

As Britain endeavours to trade with the world again, our export consultancy will offer support and guidance for any business with global ambitions.

We have identified specific opportunities for British businesses abroad. Download our prospectus for an end-to-end export package for selling British gin to Mexico and Latin America here.

When a business finds itself in the public eye, we can provide exactly the sort of preparation, and briefing required. We offer more than just communications and media strategies: de Fossard Communications produces rigorous research and policy papers, aids businesses with internal communications, and offers a high quality speech writing service for clients in the public eye. 

As technological innovation in financial services challenges the established industry, we have worked with American firms to produce research reports into the growth of robotic advice in wealth management, and establish the opportunities for boutique firms, with human advisers, in an era of automation. With a network of talented researchers, we can produce a variety of commercial or academic reports for our clients, to assess the viability of new products, prospects of target markets, or review the progress of active strategies.

Beyond communication and media strategies, we offer clients speech writing, press briefing and correspondence, to ensure their public relations are consistently high quality. We have written series of speeches for high profile political campaigns , as well providing follow up communications in the press to ensure our clients' messages are always clearly understood and well-received. 

de Fossard Communications offers a truly comprehensive PR service, ambitious in scope, and creative, consistent, and exciting in execution.

British Gin to Mexico: A new frontier for British gin

In 2021 and into 2022, we completed an intensive, targeted campaign in Mexico to promote one of the UK's strongest luxury exports: gin and premium spirits. Working with the Wine & Spirit Trade Association, our press and PR capitalised on the growing trade relationship between Britain and Mexico following a new trade deal between the two nations. This was an exemplary piece of work which and demonstrated our ability to assist British clients with media, awareness and profile in new markets at home and abroad.

During a three-month period, the deFossard team secured valuable coverage in both specialist media and mainstream titles, from a featured article in Forbes’ Robb Report Mexico to industry targeted publications such as Retailers Magazine, one of the few outlets that focuses exclusively on Mexico’s grocery retail sector. The centrepiece of the campaign took place in Mexico City’s high-end Gin Gin bar, where journalists were invited to sample innovative gin cocktails. This event was followed by an exclusive interview with Joanne Moore, Master Distiller of Quintessential Brands – the home of world-renowned gins, such as Greenall’s, Opihr, Thomas Dakin and Bloom – for leading consumer-focused magazine Food & Wine en Español.

Download a full copy of our Prospectus here.

de Fossard Communications has established a dedicated agritech practice, following years working in the farming, horticulture, and fresh produce sector. 

Agritech is a booming, innovative sector in the UK, and de Fossard Communications is bringing its expertise and know-how in farming, fresh produce, politics and communications to the area. 

 With a new, pro-innovation policy for agritech on the horizon in the UK, British businesses have the opportunity to grow a world-leading sector for agricultural and food innovation. 

 This will be a boon for British farmers, British consumers, and British science all at once.

With our international experience, insight into how new government policy will be implemented and record of success with targeted campaigns in agriculture and fresh produce, de Fossard Communications is well-positioned to ensure any business ready and willing to take advantage of the new opportunities provided by the British government’s Genetic Technology Bill will be able to receive the coverage, awareness, and support they require to thrive in the UK. 

 The proportionate and science-based regulatory system for precision-bred plants and animals included in the bill will unlock opportunities to develop crops that are more resilient against disease and the effects of climate change such as drought and flooding, and less reliant on pesticides.

 The new and innovative products which can be developed include, but are not limited to, climate resilient wheat, non-browning bananas, and disease-resistant chickens. 

 With global supply chains still under strain and energy prices high around the world, all efforts by governments to increase the supply of food and make agriculture more efficient and productive are welcome. This will ease inflation, cut the cost of food and ultimately save lives around the world. 

 It also poses a fantastic opportunity for agritech startups, researchers and academics, and farmers to invest in the United Kingdom, taking advantage of the new regulatory opportunities being developed there. 

 Gene editing might be a great way of harvesting cheaper and more productive food, but it can also attract controversy and critical attention through misconceptions or motivated attacks.

de Fossard Communications is an experienced PR and communications agency which has worked in European agriculture and fresh produce over the last six years to help businesses tell their stories, identify and target new sales and investment, and engage with governments and regulators to ensure they can bring their products to market. 

To hear more about how we can help agritech businesses tell their stories and grow in the UK and beyond, please get in touch here.