Specific Solutions

High-stakes problems that Hennes Paynter Communications has addressed for its clients *

• Helped a chemical manufacturing firm manage communications when an accidental release went offsite, impacting the local community.
• Helped a local non-profit housing organization and a Catholic school tell the story of how they discovered and dealt with cases of employee theft.
• Helped a company communicate plant closings and the loss of union jobs that were transferred to a facility in Mexico.
• Solved a long-standing communication problem between a continuing care retirement community and its residents.
• Managed a high school’s response to a delicate off-campus incident that involved one of its students, and an on-campus anonymous threat to students.
• Corrected misperceptions about a local municipality’s investments in economic development.
• Helped a suburban mayor counter media allegations of nepotism.
• Protected a university’s reputation for safety in the face of a series of sexual assaults.
• Prepared a local municipality and its private developer partner for possible eminent domain litigation.
• Helped a Fortune 500 company gain support for moving the headquarters of its largest division to a new location in Northeast Ohio, while avoiding stakeholder problems that would have caused it to reconsider staying in Northeast Ohio.
• Helped a local school district respond to unflattering national and local media coverage.
• Helped a municipality announce the expansion of an S&P 500 company’s headquarters.
• Ensured a local museum’s customers and stakeholders remained loyal and well-informed as it prepared to sell its building and merge with another institution.
• Avoided the possibility of lengthy and expensive litigation against a local development company inaccurately accused of wrongdoing by the media.
• Forestalled litigation against an international manufacturing firm by more than 700 retirees.
• Managed the fallout a school district and a public social service agency experienced after not renewing the contracts of popular leaders.
• Assisted a company whose CEO was arrested on charges of possessing child pornography.
• Defended the largest kosher meat processor in the United States from a political effort to deny Orthodox Jews their right to religious freedom.
• Built support for the merger of two private schools, opposed by many parents and alumnae who favored single-sex education.
• Kept a minor league baseball team from being the scapegoat after governmental delays increased the financing costs of its new ballpark.
• Helped a large commercial bank communicate its intentions to move some of its operations overseas, allowing it to demonstrate its leadership on the issue of student loans.

* Many of the above case studies were performed by Hennes Communications LLC or Paynter Communications LLC prior to their merger in 2009.