Passion for excellence in Hospitality and Catering.
With almost 30 years of invaluable experience in these fields, including culinary, service, logistic and accreditation.
Disciples Escoffier South Africa, President.
Author: COMMELLE COMMUNICATIONS
Ishara Callan Media relations and communications consultant
Ishara Bhasi Callan is a marketing and public relations professional with a proven track record of using creative solutions to meet and exceed a company’s reputational, brand and commercial objectives. She is an emerging markets expert and specializes in international trade, international development, charity, NGOS and corporate communications.
She has a proven track record of running successful media campaigns for outfits including the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, British Asian Trust, The UK India Business Council and the Commonwealth Business Council. Before joining the corporate sector, she worked with national and international news desks. Ishara possesses valuable inside knowledge and understanding of what makes a good story.
Amreen Sriqui Broadcast Journalist
Amreen Sriqui is a broadcast journalist who covered many stories around the awful atrocities of conflicts. Her final story was after she learned that one of her dearest correspondents, Jean Baptist Kakoubi, was murdered. The ON AIR lights went off in the studio and she embarked on a different kind of journalism.
From entrepreneur to interior design Consultant….many exciting experiences and adventures later, she found herself living away from motherland Africa. Married with a little boy and girl, nowadays she is using her journalistic skills a tad differently.
Having a Masters degree in the Science of being a mom, she is only too aware that Moms don’t have time to read every ingredient on packaging, research the meaning of every unpronounceable word listed, let alone opt for making a quick meal from scratch as she stumbles through the door at 6, 7, 8 or 9 PM with kids and baby puke on her new suit having been up since 4, 5, 6 AM.
Kerry Dimmer Journalist
Kerry Dimmer is an award-winning freelance journalist and editor. Kerry writes largely on African topics for both global and local publications. Her comprehensive portfolio which can be viewed on www.kerrydimmer.com presents examples of her published articles that cover infrastructure, mining, oil & gas, energy, green building, business & finance, current affairs, as well as personality/company profiles.
Kerry is the recipient of a Diageo Africa Business Reporting Award, and the 2013 Property Feature Journalist of the Year.
Events
We provide event management, logistical management, hospitality, catering, event branding and marketing, staff training, procurement and project management.
Media Training
With over two decades of experience n shaping news and heading media relations departments, we are well placed to offer media training and speech writing services to CEOs and Chairpersons.
Public Affairs
We have run strong campaign influencing policymakers and parliamentarians.
Websites
We develop focused, easy to use and targeted websites. Depending on your requirement our design and brand team will develop the iedeal website for you – whether it is simply to tell your users who you are, or to give visitors more information, or provide them with a service.
Digital media campaigns
We create digital media campaigns for clients aimed at raising their profile, product launches or to publicise a particular project. We produce tools including email campaigns, social media campaigns, infographics, digital videos.
Media Relations
We offer a range of media relations services from writing pitching stories, to writing press releases and offering a high-level of strategic media handling advice. We do product or campaign launches, providing defensive Q and A on sensitive issues, advising on the timing of an announcement, writing and placing opinion articles in the international press, and arranging face-to-face meetings between organisation executives and key journalists over a coffee to build long-term relationships.