A communications consultancy Fourteen Forty has launched to help businesses connect in better ways with the range of people, influencers and interest groups on whom their success depends.  In doing so, it will also set out to make the case for business as the country’s wealth and job creator.

The agency has been set up by James Boyd-Wallis and Guy Corbet. James, formerly Practice Director at Brands2Life, will lead the agency. Guy Corbet, the Brands2Life Managing Director who established its corporate affairs practice and was previously Marketing Director at the Fishburn Hedges Group, is the agency’s first associate.