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BRC Group Holdings and the price of reinvention
A small-cap brokerage grew into a collection of bankers, phone businesses and laptop accessories. After costly investment losses, BRC is putting its cash-generating companies back at the center of the story.
John R. Exley III and the business of being noticed
After a career inside brokerage firms, the Acorn Management Partners founder turned to the companies struggling to get a hearing. His method begins with the financial professionals who already have investors on the line.
Chuck Bennett's Business Begins Before the Bell
Before co-founding CORE IR & PR, Chuck Bennett sold financial information and built a membership business for brokers. His career now sits at the meeting point of company stories, capital-market relationships and the patient work of getting people to listen.
The 3,000-Call Cure for Wall Street's Attention Deficit
Most investor-relations firms polish the story. Acorn Management Partners built a call floor to carry it - one licensed broker, one measured conversation and one stubborn follow-up at a time.
The Forty-Year Art of Making Wall Street Listen
LHA sold a deceptively simple service: turning an overlooked company into a story investors could understand, test, and remember. Four decades later, its 2023 sale to Alliance Advisors revealed what the boutique had really built - trust, access, and a repeatable way to make the market pay attention.
The Message Has Two Audiences - CORE IR & PR Built One Room for Both
Most companies tell one story to Wall Street and another to everyone else. CORE IR & PR has spent years arguing that the expensive part is the gap between them.
MKR Group: getting small companies into Wall Street’s conversation
A stock ticker is only the start of an investor relationship; MKR Group built a business around the introductions that follow, helping smaller companies explain themselves to investors. Its next chapter began under the PondelWilkinson name in 2025.
IRTH Communications and the price of being understood
A stock-market listing gives a company a ticker. IRTH Communications sells the painstaking work that comes next: explaining the business, finding its audience, and keeping the conversation going.
Gateway Group and the art of making Wall Street pay attention
A factory tour, a blowtorch demonstration, a carefully chosen meeting. Gateway Group helps smaller companies turn business evidence into an investment story people can examine.
ROTH Capital Partners knows who should be in the room
The growth-company investment bank turns research and investor introductions into financing opportunities. A $25 million share offering shows what that access can cost; its history shows what access cannot fix.