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About Alva

Alva’s services allow organisations to build reputational analysis and reputational risk assessment into their day-to day business processes to ensure reputation is managed in the same way as any other valuable business asset.

About The Digital Newsroom

The Alva Digital Newsroom is a simple and useful resource for you to keep track of all the latest news stories. High resolution images and complete press releases are available to download from here, and you can connect with our various social media profiles easily. Suggestions for improvements are welcome.

Contact Details

Alex Myers & Camilla Brown
Manifest London
t. +44 (0)207 8120 592
e. alva@manifestlondon.co.uk

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Cass Entrepreneurship Fund makes first investment

The Cass Entrepreneurship Fund, a new £10m investment fund providing finance for start-up and early stage companies across the Cass Business School community, has made its first investment in corporate reputation analysis firm Alva.

  • The funding round of £675,000 was led by Cass alongside a group of angel investors
  • These included Charles Lewington, Managing Director of hanover and Andrew Vickerman, the former Global Head of Communications and External Relations at Rio Tinto Plc
  • The Cass Entrepreneurship Fund forms part of the Peter Cullum Centre for Entrepreneurship
  • Alva is a company that specialises in analysing corporate reputation and reputational risk, founded by Cass MBA alumni Alberto Lopez-Valenzuela and Richard Fleming

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Regulation and reputation: The impact of Ofgem’s intervention

March 23rd: Ofgem has accused the “Big Six” of not playing a fair game with consumers, offering a complex system of tariffs with a great difference between their standard tariffs and direct debit tariffs. In spite of increased consumer calls for a sector reform, ever more frequent investigations and a radical change in utilities’ billing, [...]

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Nuclear nightmare

March 15th: The explosions at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant caused by a system failure following a massive earthquake and tsunami significantly strengthened the urgency for public safety and the pressure on countries that have a substantial exposure to nuclear power to seek other sources of energy. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) announced that [...]

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Low carbon networks: Company and country reputation building

March 9th: There’s always a risk with early adopters of new regulations and technologies that if they go wrong, reputations can be harmed. Set against this is the kudos gained from being the first-mover; not only do the media sit up and take notice but customers and investors are reassured that these forward-thinking companies are [...]

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