Shirley de Kock & Associates provides a range of corporate communications, including media relations. Specialist skills and experience are in consumer relations, tourism and the wine sectors, property and retail.

Headed by Shirley de Kock Gueller, the team includes experienced associates in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. Shirley de Kock has 19 years' PR consulting experience in South Africa with De Kock & Kerkhoff Communication Consultants and she was assistant editor of Reader's Digest SA and press liaison officer with the US Information Service prior to that. She contributes travel and music articles frequently to the local media.

What the team can offer:

• Project co-ordination/management
• Media consultation, liaison and writing, translating and distribution of releases to print and electronic media
• Brochure production from copyrighting to layout and printing
• Editing and proofreading
• Event management

Clients include:

Cape Town Concert Series. The leading recital venue in Cape Town for international and local artists.

Moores Rowland. The South African practice of the international accounting firm.

Paul Cluver Wines. Award-winning pioneer of cool climate wines in South Africa. Expanding vineyard and cellar production capacity to keep pace with growing international and local demand.

Wilderer Distillery. International award-winning distiller of grappa and eaux de vie.

South African National Youth Orchestra. The cradle of music in South Africa which has for nearly 50 years been producing the best musicians in this country.  

Opechee Design Studio. Copywriting for marketing and print design company in Cape Town

Shirley de Kock Gueller also handles media relations for many smaller clients, writes and researches for the Reader's Digest in Canada and the Canadian Encyclopedia of Music, and writes and reviews books for Atlantic Books Today.

e-mail: Shirley@gueller.com