At 12 noon on Friday, 23 September 2005, Pleon CEO Geoff Beattie is taking part in a live webchat hosted by the PRCA.

Geoff will be joined by Helen Dickinson, head of Press and PR at John Lewis plc, and Paul Flatters, CEO of Futures Foundation. The subject is consumer spending in view of lagging retail sales and concerns regarding consumer confidence, GDP growth and UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown’s current budget deficit.

Geoff and the panel members will be offering their views on the likely impact on clients and on the measures that consultancies should currently be taking

To log in, visit the PRCA website at www.prca.org.uk and click on the ‘Go to webchat’ button. To submit a question for the panel, follow the directions on the PRCA website.