Friend Studio | Award-winning design, communications, branding and reporting agency in London

During the current crisis the Friend team are working fully from home, and able to provide full service to all our clients via secure server and creative cloud applications. If you have any queries about our services available throughout this period, please get in touch: hello@friendstudio.com

Lloyds Banking Group

Given the impact Lloyds Banking Group has on its millions of stakeholders and the economy at large, the Group is committed to producing excellent, transparent reporting. We’re pleased to help them raise the bar year after year.

Marks & Spencer

As an international multi-channel retailer, Marks and Spencer is one of the most recognisable brands in the UK. Since 2015 Friend has helped them both to push the best-practice envelope and to win awards for their reporting communications.

Invest Europe

For many years we’ve worked closely with the team at Invest Europe, creating and delivering its brand and communications materials, including its new website; the hub for its digital engagement with stakeholders.

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News & views

The big trends in reporting now

Several key trends emerged in 2020’s crop of annual reports with stakeholders a focus as well as the impacts of COVID-19. The pandemic will continue to play a big part in companies' narratives in 2021, along with the longer term and potentially more devastating issue of climate change.

ESEF Update – Jan 2021

ESEF is a new annual reporting filing requirement, which provides your report in a digital package that is tagged with additional data (iXBRL). Following some confusion and debate over the precise requirements, we are pleased that the UK government has recently announced some crucial clarifications, and that it has taken a pragmatic approach to the implementation of ESEF.

Invest Europe: Private Equity at Work campaign

In this new ‘Private Equity at Work’ report, Invest Europe’s latest research demonstrates the significant positive impact that private equity investment has on employment and job creation in Europe.

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Lloyds Banking Group
Senior Manager, Corporate Reporting

Friend Studio have continually raised the bar for Pearson. They are trusted partners who are results orientated with solid experience and a strong strategic approach. They are terrific partners.

Pearson
Corporate Affairs

A huge thank you to you and the team for an excellent job. We’re really delighted and have been picking up some great external feedback already.

Rentokil
Company Secretary

Friend is a fun, trusted agency which has provided us with first rate round-the-clock support. They are calm and collected and have worked seamlessly with us. It has been a pleasure working with the team.

Bupa
Corporate Communications

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Charterhouse

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