Building your brand’s public profile.
In a world where connection matters, the Common Ground PR team gets you in front of the people that matter to build your brand’s reputation and public awareness.
Award-winning public relations specialist Olivia Boswell and ex-leading lifestyle journalist Rosie Herdman offer a multi-faceted service. With their extensive experience across FMCG, F&B and New Zealand's cultural space, together with their passion for New Zealand businesses with heart, they offer a unique and creative perspective.
Common Ground PR supports companies with big goals in their journeys from launching and profile building to maintaining a covetable position in the media.
Get in touch today and discover how your story can work for you.
Common Ground PR are legends, they get our complex business and help to translate what we do into easy-to-digest stories that get cut through.
We see them as an extension of our business.
— Angus Brown, Ārepa Co-Founder and CEO
SERVICES
PR campaigns
For both short-term and on-going projects, Common Ground delivers creative and engaging PR campaigns for your brand with meaningful results.
Communications
We’ll help you achieve your goals with a strategic communications approach, reaching your audiences with flare across multiple channels.
Copywriting and editing
From help with writing your pitch deck, brand story and website to case studies, your weekly e-newsletters and social posts, we’ve got you covered.
Media management
Working with New Zealand media for more than 10 years, Common Ground has an extensive contact base to get your news where it will be seen.
When launching our premium skincare brand TWYG, Common Ground were professional and experienced but friendly and relaxed.
Strategic and insightful, they understood our market, are well connected to NZ media and KOL, ideas-led and fast communicators who were committed to do the best possible job to get the brand launched with impact (within a finite budget).
We are so thrilled and can’t wait to do more with them as we continue to grow.
— Steph Davies, TWYG Co-Founder
CLIENTS IN THE NEWS
TWYG launch features in National Business Review online
TWYG founders Steph and Ryan Davies spoke with Dita De Boni for a Your Business feature in National Business Review as part of their skincare brand launch. The launch was covered widely in both lifestyle and industry media, in print and online.
Goldie co-founder Cam Maclachlan gives Jenny-May Clarkson the lowdown on TVNZ’s Breakfast
Along with a hefty amount of mainstream media, business and industry coverage, Cam was invited on to Breakfast to chat with Jenny about how Goldie is shaking up New Zealand’s investment landscape.
Boring Oat Milk Founder Morgan Maw on the Cover of The Dominion Post’s Life
Morgan talks to the massive success of Boring Oat Milk which shows no signs of slowing down.
Coffee Supreme talks 30 years in business on RNZ’s Nine to Noon
Coffee Supreme CEO Andrew Low and New Zealand wholesale manager Natalie Guest joined Nine To Noon presenter Kathryn Ryan to celebrate three decades and successful venues across Aotearoa, Australia and Japan.
Luxury wellness retreat Aro-Ha features on the cover of Sunday Star Times Travel
Ensemble Director of Partnerships Rebecca Wadey wrote about Glenorchy’s world-famous wellness retreat for a cover story in the Sunday Star Times’ Travel magazine, and online at Stuff.co.nz.
Black Ferns coach Amanda Murphy talks to RNZ ahead of the RWC
We worked with World Rugby for the history-making Women’s Rugby World Cup hosted in New Zealand. Among many other pieces of coverage, Nine to Noon interviewed coach Amanda Murphy in the lead-up to the big games.
Artist Reuben Paterson on the cover of Canvas Magazine
Artist Reuben Paterson speaks about his dazzling new work Guide Kaiarahi 2021, the crystal waka adorning Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki’s forecourt.
Ārepa Co-Founder and CEO Angus Brown speaks to NZ Herald Business Journo Chris Keall
Angus talks to the company’s second major supermarket deal across the Tasman after inking a deal with Coles in 2021. The NZ Herald continues to follow the company’s growth story.
NZ Herald tells how Zenith Tecnica 3D prints parts for satellites the size of double-decker buses
Forget the shoebox-sized cubesats launched by Rocket Lab, US-based Maxar Technologies makes "mega satellites" - each the size of a double-decker bus - and Auckland company Zenith Tecnica has helped it get five of them into space over the past five years.
Almighty Beverages Co-Founder and CEO Ben Lenart talks all things Almighty Active to Stuff
Almighty launches its new range Active, and is seen across multiple publications. This story was also featured in Dominion Post’s Your Weekend in print.
The New Zealand Dance Company’s Creative Director features in Sunday Star Times and Stuff
The New Zealand Dance Company’s creative director Janine Dijkmeijer speaks to her journey to Aotearoa and about NZDC’s new double-bill performance, Night Light. Featured in print in The Sunday Star Times and online on Stuff.co.nz
The sign of any great agency is when they feel like a part of the team and understand areas of the business more than anyone else.
Common Ground is the rock Goldie needs in the crazy world of startups; they consistently exceed expectations and play a pivotal role in helping us smash our targets.
— Cam Maclachlan, Goldie Co-Founder
TRUSTED BY
CONTACT
olivia.boswell@commonground.co.nz
+64 21 952759
Grey Lynn,
Auckland