The Practice won IKEA Romania’s communication account

IKEA Romania chose, following a pitch, The Practice to handle its external communication. The decision to name an agency to handle its PR activities comes after 3 years in which IKEA handled in-house its communication. The contract is effective starting August 15th.

The pitch took place over almost 4 months, in two steps: 10 Romanian PR agencies were invited to the pitch, 5 entered on the shortlist and The Practice was named to handle the account.

Integrating PR in our company’s communication became more and more important, locally and globally. And this matter as we are part of a group of companies that activates in 38 countries. Meanwhile, our objectives in communicating with IKEA’s public in Romania evolved. In this context, we considered that the objective vision of a strategic partner will bring added value on long term for IKEA’s communication on Romanian market. That is why we organized this pitch. We thank to all the agencies that were present to the pitch and we welcome The Practice that, besides the big score on all selection criteria, won us by understanding the brand’s values, their strategic thinking, enthusiasm and creativity. Our new partner’s innovative solutions, anchored in reality, for pitch’s brief surprised the best IKEA’s communication spirit

Daniela Sargu

PR Manager IKEA Romania.

 

Our agency’s history has strong links with IKEA in a very pleasant way: right after founding The Practive, we went together with all the team in IKEA’s store for a shopping session to get furniture to decorate out headquarters. And that was, practically, our first team-building. That is why we are so happy with the result of this pitch, that showed that our team’s valuable expertise matches with the inspiration IKEA’s team and this wonderful brand gave us

Gabriela Lungu

Managing Partner The Practice

 

The partnership was signed for an year, period in which the agency will offer IKEA Romania integrated public relation services.