CHERRY & CO.

Public Relations Consulting| Media Relations
Internal and External Communications | Community Engagement
Corporate Social Responsibility | Crisis Communications

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Employee Engagement

Attract, engage and retain the best people with:

Employee communications
Culture enhancement
Employee recognition
Change management
HR and benefits communications
Grant writing
Leader communications
Employee celebrations
M&A communications
Financial literacy communications
Meeting facilitation
Leadership and professional development
Employee surveys
Video communication
Social media messages
Leadership surveys
Board communications
Content: writing, editing, proofreading

Community Engagement

Build your brand and grow your business with connections through:

Public input sessions
Strategic community investment
Employee volunteerism
Memorable speeches
Charitable giving
Community research
Matching gifts
Grant writing
Focus groups
Strategic planning
Anniversary celebrations
Community Reinvestment Act-qualified sponsorships and grants
Strategic sponsorships
Video testimonials
Nonprofit board placements
Impactful presentations
Leadership grants
In-kind nonprofit support
Sports marketing

Traditional/Social Media

Earn media coverage and own your social media messages through:

News releases
Media pitches
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram posts
Authored content for newspapers
Meet-and-greets with journalists
Media training
Speaking engagements
Crisis communications
Media partnerships
Relationships with local, national and trade journalists
Op-eds, bylined articles
Anniversary celebrations

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Who We Are

Cherry & Co. is a public relations firm that builds, enhances and repairs organizations' reputations from our headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee. We are certified by the City of Memphis and Shelby County as both a WBE and LOSB.

Our founder and CEO, Kim Cherry, is a lifelong Memphian who understands how to build reputational capital and get business done. In more than 30 years as a public relations professional she has developed extensive expertise in media relations counseling and strategy, employee engagement, internal and external communications, crisis communications and community engagement strategy. Under her executive leadership at First Horizon Corp. she championed work/family programs that earned the company recognition as one of the nation’s best employers by BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune, AARP, American Banker and Working Mother.

She earned leadership roles in national trade organizations and accolades as one of the top PR practitioners and female executives in Memphis. She has served as a director on numerous nonprofit boards and is a graduate of the New Memphis Institute and Leadership Memphis. She earned her Accreditation in Public Relations and a Bachelor of Arts in communication arts from Rhodes College. She completed the Leadership and Strategic Impact program through Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth and is completing her thesis for a Master’s in strategic communication through the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

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