VIA Comms Group Corporate Brochure

Creative business solutions for thought leaders and marketeers

Events | Publishing | Visual Services | Recruitment | List Rental

Mission Statement Via Comms Group is an innovative communications specialist in the life sciences, personal care and supply chain industries that seamlessly combines a variety of platforms to deliver thought leadership and creative business solutions.

Via Comms Group provides creative business and marketing solutions through its multichannels that include • Events • Magazines • Digital media • Film • Data • Recruitment

Events

Events that mean business Via Events

Via Communications is a specialist provider of sustained high-impact events to the bio/pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and personal care industries.

Our key service offerings include the prestigious European Outsourcing Awards, NBT Awards and our groundbreaking strategic direction debate War Games.

Both the NBT Awards (NBTA) and the European Outsourcing Awards (EOA) are aligned to 2 of the largest European exhibitions in pharma (ISCE and CPhI) and functional foods (Vitafoods).

This offers both the visitor and exhibitor another key networking opportunity alongside major exhibitions.

Via Events has brought together more than 1000 senior decision makers across the life science sector in 2012 and, with the launch of the WarGames event model in 2014, this number is set to double.�

NBT Awards The NBT Awards gala dinner recognizes and rewards excellence in R&D, marketing, business and technology throughout the nutraceutical, functional food and beverage industry. The mission is to deliver a set of benchmarks to a global audience to achieve significant developments in quality of service, health management, research, development, and relationship management.

The awards evening includes a cocktail networking reception, gala dinner, awards presentation with after-dinner speakers and entertainment. Award winners are presented with trophies that set a benchmark for recognizing success within the nutraceutical industry. www.nbtawards.com

WarGames WarGames offer the opportunity to be part of cutting-edge strategic debates that help shape the future of your industry. The WarGames model brings together thought leaders in a format that provides an open debate and exchange of ideas that will guide the business strategy of the future. A WarGame not only brings together industry thought leaders for two days of structured debates but aligns the players to developing a business strategy within a platform that includes industry peers that ultimately will influence the direction of their industry.

WarGames will enable the participants to make better decisions for the development and direction of their products and businesses. www.wargamesevent.com

European Outsourcing Awards Launched in 2005, the EOA gala dinner recognizes and rewards excellence in marketing, business and technology across the pharmaceutical outsourcing, bio-pharmaceutical and clinical trial industries. The mission is to deliver a set of benchmarks to a global audience to achieve significant developments in quality of service, research, development and relationship management.

The awards evening includes a cocktail networking reception, gala dinner, awards presentation with after-dinner speakers and entertainment. Award winners are presented with trophies that set a benchmark for recognizing success within the contract services industry. www.europeanoutsourcingawards.com

Publishing

Print and digital publications

Via Publications Via Comms Group is a specialist in thought leadership and creative business solutions for the life science, personal care and supply chain industries. Our publications are a vital resource for all industry professionals wanting to keep up-to-date with the latest developments, news, reviews and information, and have a longstanding reputation for high quality content in print, digital and online formats.

Via Comms Group reach more than 280,000 readers per month through its various print and web-based content channels.

NBT Magazine nutraceutical business & technology (NBT) is the leading bimonthly B2B publication that focuses on and drives the issues that influence and shape the nutraceutical and functional food and drink industries.

Published in print and digital formats, NBT includes high quality news, reviews, updates, articles and interviews, delivering commentary that is key to 23,000 key decision makers worldwide and commissioned from strategically placed industry experts.

nutraceuticalmag.com | Global bimonthly readership: 23,000

Convergence Magazine Given that the era of the blockbuster drug may be fading, with many pharmaceutical companies facing expiring patents and slim pipelines, the nutraceutical market could provide a welcome new alternate revenue stream.

The Convergence supplement aims to highlight the benefits of both industries and drive forward-thinking executives to combine the best of each sector into a new healthcare paradigm that focuses on the healthy consumer/ patient as its ultimate goal.

Readership: 20,000

Pharma Magazine Pharma is the essential source of bio-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industry news and the only leading B2B publication for the pharmaceutical, bio-pharmaceutical and clinical trials industries. Each print and digital issue focuses on regulatory updates, industry leading technical articles, business, management and much more.

Covering every sector of the industry — from drug discovery to packaging and distribution — Pharma connects you to a global audience of 300,000 key professionals and decision makers.

pharma-mag.com | Global bimonthly readership: 20,000

Our publications bring key decision makers from the life science and supply chain industries together.

NBT Online nutraceuticalmag.com NBT website is visited by more than 10,000 unique monthly visitors, including senior managers and key decision makers from the global nutraceutical and functional food, dietary supplement, pharmaceutical and health food industries, including natural and herbal medicines, botanicals, ingredients and raw materials.

Monthly unique visitors: 10,800 | Average time on site: 4:20

Supply Chain Online scemagazine.com Supply Chain Europe explores management and technology based solutions that help European businesses improve the way they source, make, store, ship, deliver and ultimately recycle their products. We cover, therefore, not only the physical supply chain but also the critical information and finance chains, as well as the human resources aspects. The emphasis is on real-life, transferable practice and bottom-line improvement.  Monthly unique visitors: 19,600 | Average time on site: 4:30

Pure Health Online purehealthmag.co.uk Pure Health Magazine is read by purchasers and senior managers from the personal care, ingredients/raw materials, food and beverage, cosmetic, toiletry and hygiene product industries worldwide.

Pure Health Magazine will get your message to the people that matter most.

Monthly unique visitors: 9,200 | Average time on site: 3:20

Pharma Online pharma-mag.com Pharma is the essential source of bio-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industry news and the leading B2B portal for the pharmaceutical, bio-pharmaceutical and clinical trials industries. Our content focuses on regulatory updates, industry leading technical articles, business, management and much more. It covers every sector of the industry — from drug discovery to packaging and distribution.

Monthly unique visitors: 17,800 | Average time on site: 5:30

Visual Services

VIDEO & CREATIVE SERVICES

Delivering your message worldwide Via Visual Services

As a full service creative agency, Via Visual Services operates closely with its clients to deliver bespoke solutions. Through the use of our vast expertise and dedicated team of professionals, we use a novel and unique approach to deliver our service. In doing so, we exceed clients’ expectations through our innovative approach, giving a fresh perspective to build on existing ideas. This enables our clients to differentiate between the competition, and, most importantly, add value to their brand.

We believe our attention to detail with adequate forward planning are the key reasons for our success. We offer solutions from inception through to final delivery and have access to some of the best freelancers/suppliers within the industry. Our wide-ranging services include live events, broadcast, corporate profiling, training, documentary, commercial and online web.

We strive to offer the highest quality and most cost effective solutions for all our projects. We always ensure we understand our clients’ requirements and ask them to be involved at every stage of production, ensuring a smooth and seamless process and a perfect end result. www.viavs.com

Audio Visual Services Each production we undertake receives the care and attention that it deserves, and our commitment to detail is rewarded by a continual stream of repeat business.

In recent years, we’ve turned new ways of delivering video to viewers into a competitive advantage for our clients.

Our corporate audio visual production team specializes in coverage of events, having undertaken numerous individually tailored corporate and seminar films, as well as promotion and induction films.

We know and use very experienced camera and production crews, some with more than 20 years experience working in the broadcast environment. Credits from our team include top end entertainment shows such as “Strictly Come Dancing” and “Richard and Judy.”

Our services extend to include a top-end broadcast environment: we have access to script writing facilities, researchers, production personnel and producers to reflect our experienced camera crews and state of the art editing facilities.

Our in-house production and editing facilities mean that we can produce a creative to present your unique ideas in to broadcast format.

With a history of event management, Via Visual Services has the experience and know-how to help your next event run smoothly, and ensure an excellent ROI for your organization.

Corporate video | Event video | Still Photography | Broadcast | Web streaming

Marketing Via Visual Services is able to offer you a wide range of creative and marketing services to fulfil all your promotional activities.

Creative Our design team can take your creative idea and turn it into reality by utilizing the skills within the team to produce a whole range of design services, including graphic design, web design, branding, advert design, event materials, marketing literature and online graphics.

Website Development Front and back-end website development utilizing the latest technologies and practices.

Marketing Our marketing team can provide bespoke marketing services across our industry databases that include HTML design, copywriting, campaign analytics, SEO, marketing plans and strategies.

Our database of more than 500,000 contacts can be utilized to improve your email marketing campaigns. Additionally, our in-house design team allows us to work with your corporate visual identity to create unique pieces to support your branding efforts.

Creative Services | Web Development | Marketing

Recruitment

Staffing solutions that work Via Recruit

Founded in 2006, Via Recruit is a multidisciplined provider of staffing solutions within the global life science and supply chain sectors.

We work with our clients to ensure that every aspect of our work is dedicated and focused on competencies and recognizing that a diverse workforce has the potential for increased flexibility and a wider pool of skills. Via Recruit has access to an expanding database of talent and our unique talent finding and matching tool. Our consultants offer a blend of industry and recruitment experience ensuring the right consultant works on placing the best candidates for you.

We understand that representing the local community within a business helps to enhance our client’s profile which means Via Recruit proactively encourages applications from all relevant candidates and will not discriminate between their age, race, religious belief, gender, marital status, sexual orientation or other considerations that do not affect their ability to do the required role. www.viarecruit.com

List Rental

Data that leads to sales Via Data

Via Data is a specialist provider of lead generation campaigns to the life science, personal care and supply chain industries. From high-end design, copy and concept to precision targeting and delivery, Via Data is a one-stop solution for all your bespoke email marketing campaigns.

With a global database of more than 500,000 prequalified professionals, we are the preferred marketing provider to many of the world’s leading companies.

We are able to target audiences in the following sectors: Life Science: Supply Chain:

390,000 records 110,000 records

This provides unparalleled opportunities for our clients to target their marketing to a defined an identifiable audience providing transparent ROI.

Contact us Via Communications Lawster House 140 South Street Dorking Surrey RH4 2EU Tel. (+44) 01372 700 200 sales@viacommsgroup.com www.viacommsgroup.com

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