Value Enhancement Management (VEM)

is a specialist investor relations, stakeholder management and strategic communication consultancy.

Our core services are investor relations and strategic communication, stakeholder perception research, transactional communication and board reviews.

The firm comprises senior consultants whose backgrounds range from corporate investor relations and finance and listed company board experience, to stockbroking and communication. Its depth and diversity of experience enables VEM to offer an integrated approach to strategy development in the most complex stakeholder environments.

During the past decade many of Australia's leading organisations and brands have engaged VEM to advise on investor relations issues and assess and manage stakeholder perceptions. The consultancy works for publicly listed companies - both large caps and SMEs - and for non-listed companies and government and semi-government organisations.

What sets VEM apart from other investor relations, public relations and other consultancies is that its core services are research-based, the findings from which public/media relations flow. Our focus is on two-way effective communications including assisting organisations to measure the effectiveness of their communications and understand how key stakeholders perceive them. If an organisation doesn't hear (let alone listen to) the marketplace and how key stakeholders perceive it, its communications may be misdirected, ineffective or even counter-productive.

VEM is a leader in a number of segments of perception analysis (and measuring intangibles), including broader stakeholder perception analysis, retail shareholder/investor analysis and various targeted perception studies.

VEM works Australia-wide with offices in Melbourne and Sydney. The company is wholly owned by its founder Mary Beth Bauer.