Contribute to ProActive Business Channel

News and press releases

Companies, start-ups, investors, accountants, advisers, public bodies and PR agencies can bring us announcements from any country. These might concern results, a funding round, a launch, a new site, an appointment, an acquisition or a change in how a company works.

What to send

• Paste the announcement into your email, attach a Word file or provide a link to it.
• Specify its release date and time. Include any embargo restrictions.
• Include at least one image, either your own or one you have permission to share. Add captions and photographer credits. Show the place, work or people where possible, rather than a logo.
• Identify someone we can approach for details and provide their email address.

Subject line: News: your headline

Q&As

Put yourself or a colleague forward for an interview about running or growing a business. We welcome founders, chief executives, operations and finance leaders, investors and advisers, such as a founder on raising money.

What to send

• Give the proposed interviewee's name, job and organisation.
• Describe their current work in two or three lines.
• Outline possible discussion topics, with three or four suggestions.
• Attach an up-to-date portrait, with permission to share it.

Interviews can take place over a phone or video call, or through emailed questions. We retain the interviewee's own language while shortening answers where needed. They confirm their quotes with us ahead of publication.

Subject line: Q&A: name, organisation

Contributed articles

Bring practical knowledge from your own work in business to an article bearing your name. Explain what a tax change means for a company's accounts, findings from a move to new software, a rule affecting young firms or lessons from a decade of running a business.

What to send

• Begin with a brief proposal. Explain the subject, what readers would learn and your relevant experience. Wait for agreement before sending the full article.
• The agreed article should contain 700 to 1,500 words of original work. It must be unpublished, including on your own website and social accounts.
• Keep the advice practical and support it with evidence. Identify the reports or datasets behind figures, and give names and locations for examples.
• The byline must identify an individual author, rather than an organisation. Include that person's headshot and a biography of two or three sentences.
• Supply images with permission for sharing, plus a description and credit for every image.
• Disclose in one line any sales, funding or other benefit connecting you or your employer to something discussed in the article. That disclosure appears beneath the article.

Subject line: Article pitch: your topic

Company stories

Tell us about a company in any country that has changed how it works: a new way of working, a process rebuilt, a team reorganised or a second site opened. We welcome accounts from companies, their staff and the advisers who helped.

What to send

• Identify the company and the people or teams affected.
• Describe the difference the change has made, using available measurements. Examples include time saved, costs cut, output raised and changes in staff turnover or customer complaints.
• Give start or completion dates and identify those responsible for planning, running and paying for the work.
• Provide images you are authorised to share. Anyone pictured must have consented to their use.

A company story may lead to an invitation for someone involved to take part in a Q&A.

Subject line: Company story: company, country

Data and research

Share new measurements of how businesses are doing: markets, lending, tax, start-up numbers, technology take-up or productivity. They can come from research, surveys, regulatory work or monitoring you carry out.

What to send

• Provide access to the complete report or dataset through a link. A summary alone is insufficient.
• Briefly describe the collection method in one or two lines and specify the years represented.
• State when the findings become public and whether an embargo applies.
• Provide contact details for someone able to explain the research methods.

Subject line: Data: your subject