AgenciesOgilvy PR Picks Up $9M California Rail Contract
It seems Ogilvy PR should be thanking California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration for mismanagement. It helped Ogilvy pick up a $9 million contract with the California High-Speed Rail Authority. The bidding process for the contract was re-opened after Mercury Public Affairs - who was about to win the account - was deemed to have too many close ties to the Schwarzenegger administration. Government board members called the original bidding process, "insufficient." "Under a new bidding process, a staff selection panel that included three representatives from outside transit agencies chose Ogilvy over six other applicants. Mercury did not rebid, saying it lacked confidence in the new process," reports the Fresno Bee. O'Dwyer's says Ogilvy beat out Porter Novelli for the contract. Kelly McCarthy Joins Ruder Finn as Director of Business Development
First on PRNewser: Bite PR Manager of Business Development & Account Planning Kelly McCarthy is leaving the agency to join Ruder Finn as Director of Business Development. "I love Bite, always have and continue to wish them well, but it's a new chapter for me and a new opportunity. [Ruder Finn] is an agency that is growing and has fantastic credentials," said McCarthy. Bite will "definitely" be hiring, said Vice President Sean Mills. "We're taking this as an opportunity to evaluate our new business structure across North America and make sure we have the right resources in the right places. As we get that sorted out you'll see us actively recruiting to fill her position." McCarthy's first day at Ruder Finn is November 16th. Bite PR's New York team had a bash to send her off last night. Spin the Agencies of Record
Account wins in this edition of Spin the Agencies of Record includes an online jewelry boutique, an historic restaurant, a medical device high-intensity oncologic and neuropathic pain, a tire recycling company, and a film festival in the Caribbean: 5WPR lands a jem with MyJewelryBox.com Dan Klores Communications (DKC) dines old school with P.J. Clarke's RF|Binder prescribes PR as agency of record for Competitive Technologies, Inc. to launch the FDA-approved pain management device Calmare Therapy S&S Public Relations bounces for Magnum D'Or Resource, a company that deals with all facets of rubber recycling and re-use. No, not those Magnums. The Bahamas International Film Festival screens firms and awards top prize to Rogers & Cowan Do Companies Face PR Issue Over Receiving H1N1 Vaccines?
Twenty nine companies in New York City were cleared by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to receive H1N1 swine flu vaccines, BusinessWeek reports. Among the recipients are Goldman Sachs, Time Warner, JPMorgan Chase, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York Presbyterian Healthcare System, and New York University. One business blogger suggested that this "looks like another PR snafu for Wall Street," since in some instances banks were allowed to receive the vaccines before hospitals. Reached for comment, a Goldman Sachs spokesperson sent PRNewser the following statement: "It is important to understand that the Department of Health decides in its sole discretion who receives H1N1 vaccines - both the amount and timing. Goldman Sachs, like other responsible employers, has requested vaccine and will supply it only to employees who qualify based on the requirements laid down by the CDC and Department of Health." InVentiv Communications Q3: Revenue Down 8%InVentiv Communications, which includes health-care PR agencies Chandler Chicco and Chamberlain Healthcare PR reported an 8% decline in Q3 revenue today. The decline was much less than the first two quarters of 2009, both of which exceeded 20%. In a statement, the company said client expenditures "stabilized" as they sought to "gain efficiencies and better coordination of their promotional efforts." The company noted "a number of new engagements with existing and new clients," but did not name specifics. Wall Street Journal Selects Ketchum Pleon As Agency Partner For Future of Finance Initiative
Ketchum Pleon, which is the recently combined Omnicom agencies Ketchum and Pleon, won work with the Wall Street Journal to promote the publication's Future of Finance Initiative conference, which takes place December 7-8th, just outside London. "Ketchum Pleon was tapped for this prestigious assignment because of its extensive knowledge of the European media market and its growing strength in financial communications," said Robert H. Christie, vice president of communications, Consumer Media Group, Dow Jones & Company in a statement. The conference speakers include 100 CEOs, financial executives, officials from G-20 nations and economists including investor George Soros and Paul Volcker, chairman, President's Economic Recovery Advisory and Board Former Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve. The topic of debate will be "international financial regulation and coordination." Dow Jones did not comment as to the other agencies who pitched the business as of the time of this post. Spin the Agencies of Record
The account wins in this edition of Spin the Agencies of Record include B2B software and ad networks, a restaurant, a stationer, a resort hotel chain, a community college, and chemicals used by researchers developing new therapies: The Susan Magrino Agency dines with Armani Ristorante and writes the thank you note on Dempsey & Carroll Stationery Articulate Communications scores three in the B2B, including Cellebrite, SoftServe, and Undertone Networks CRT/tanaka makes the grade for the Virginia Community College System's Great Expectations program 5WPR shacks up with the 15-location Millennium Hotels & Resorts chain Impress Public Relations mixes up a batch of PR for Sigma Life Science, makers of biological-based chemicals and reagents used by research scientists in the investigation of new or enhanced methods in therapeutic areas Former Rush Limbaugh Spokesperson Launches PR Firm
Veteran radio PR executive Amir Forester launched her own firm today, Forester Public Relations. Forester has experience handling media talent and launches her agency with radio personalities Phil Hendrie and Elvis Duran. Before launching her own firm, Forester ran the communications department at Premiere Radio Neworks, where she was spokesperson for radio personalities such as Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Glenn Beck. Middleberg Communications Acquires Dowd AgencyMiddleberg Communications will acquire The Dowd Agency in a deal announced today. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, however the acquisition puts the agency at more than $4 million in revenues and about 25 employees. Middleberg had net fees of $2,694,000 in 2008, which means about $1.5 million in annual business will come to the agency from today's deal. The new agency will operate as Middleberg Communications, with The Dowd Agency as its consumer division. This is the third deal in as many years for Middleberg. In November 2006 the agency acquired Towers Group and last February they acquired The Weiser Group. The Dowd deal has been a long time in the works. "Jim and I have been talking for close to two years," Middleberg Communications CEO Don Middleberg told PRNewser. "It's not an economic story, it's really a story of two guys who have been talking about doing something. Jim is a young guy who has tremendous consumer credentials." Dowd is steadily growing at a 20% year over year clip, Middleberg said, while his own agency is down 5-10% this year. Referring to his previous firm Middleberg & Associates, which was a 150-employee, $18 million operation that he sold to Euro RSCG, a division of Havas, in June 2000, Middleberg said he is, "not looking to become 150 people in three cities any longer, but I am looking to become what we were before, which is a superior firm doing great work." He also didn't rule out future deals. Florida Agency TransMedia Group Says Local Market Bouncing BackBoca Raton, Florida based agency TransMedia Group is seeing a rebound in business. Q3 revenues were "up significantly from a year ago and the fourth quarter has gotten off to the strongest start in two years," the company announced today. "We're nearly back to monthly gross revenues in six figures again, which we haven't seen since 2005," said TransMedia's founder Tom Madden in a statement. TransMedia is a private company and did not provide additional detail in terms of results. PreviouslyLevine Communications Office Hires Two New Execs To Form Social Media Division Digital Agency Huge, Inc. Adds Communications Department WPP Q3: Overall Revenue Down 8.7%, PR Sector Down 8.5% Ogilvy PR Wins Six Government Contracts, Including $1.8m HHS Account Ketchum CEO on United Airlines RFP: 'They've Cast an Amazingly Wide Net' The 36,000 Page RFP Submission? It Exists, Says WPP's Sorrell Interpublic Q3: Revenue Down 18%, Profit Down 47% Bite Communications Completes Acquisition of Upstream Asia Publicis Q3: Revenue Down 7.4%, Digital Comm. Offsets Decline in Other Areas Horn Group Adds Six New Clients, $1.5m in Annual Revenue Boutique Firms Band Together to Compete Richard Salvo in Times Profile: Key to PR Is Honesty Geoff Livingston Leaving CRT/tanaka; Starting New Company in 2010 Nina Velasquez Joins Atomic PR To Lead NY Office Kaplow Launches Tech and Emerging Media Group Omnicom Q3 Earnings: PR Revenue Down 15% Next Fifteen Communications Reports 2009 Fiscal Year Results MDC Q3 Results: Revenue Down 5.3%, Earnings Up 9.9% Coyne PR Confirms West Coast Expansion Plans Fandango Sister Site Movies.com Seeks Boutique PR Agency Who Owns Social Media? It Depends Empower PR Gets Press For Its "No-Gossip" Zone Razorfish Names Concept Communications AOR Ogilvy PR Names Nathan Friedman MD of Chicago Office S4 Wins U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Contract for Afghanistan/Pakistan Communications Video: Carrot Creative President on the Social Agency Landscape Fire at McCann Erickson (Literally) Cohn & Wolfe Names John Hollywood EVP and U.S. Conumer Practice Leader EuroRSCG Launches Dedicated Media Relations Department Hill & Knowlton on Chicago Bid: "Huge Sense of Pride About Getting Our Client There At All" PS & Associates Retains Former CNN Anchor Daryn Kagan Former Capitol File EIC Sherry Moeller Launches PR Firm Pierce Mattie PR "Declares War" on Competitor, But Who? Rubenstein Repping Carolyn Savage, Mother of Baby "Mix Up" Honduran Govenment Hires D.C. Agency J Public Relations Opens New York Office, Names Sarah Evans Managing Partner Porter Novelli Named Monster.com Agency of Record for U.S. PR Agencies: Get More Entrenched With Your Clients, See Greater Retention Is United Airlines Looking for an Agency? WPP Head Martin Sorrell Explains Problems Behind Enfatico Five Questions To Ask A Potential PR Firm Former LPL Financial VP of PR Launches KCD PR Charles Jones Launches CJones & Associates Public Relations Former HARO PR Agency Filing Lawsuit Against Company MDC Partners Invests in Attention Sarah Evans Launches Sevans Strategy HARO No Longer Working With Propheta Communications Agency Trend: Specialized Network vs. Consolidated Mega Agency? Dachis Group Acquires HeadShift MSNBC's Carlos Watson and AKA PR Part Ways Publicis Promises to Double its PR Revenue in Three Years ContentNext Media To Part Ways With Brainerd Communicators, Says Founder Lippin Group Resigns TV Academy Account Schartz Acquires U.K. Firm Hayhurst Fenton Communications Wins $250k Wikimedia Project Agency-produced "24 in the OC" Hosted by Former CNBC Correspondent Trendspotter Marian Salzman Leaves Porter Novelli, Re-joins Euro RSCG Ad Industry Won't Recover in 2H 2009; PR A "Pocket Of Strength" Next Fifteen Acquires M Booth & Associates Interpublic Q2 Earnings: Profit Down More Than 70% Larry Craig Opens Consulting Firm Ketchum CEO: Most Agency Leaders Think "Client Budgets Have Seen the Bottom" Omnicom Q2 Earnings: Profit Down 24% Razorfish, Ogilvy PR Launch Social Media Measurement Offerings Kelly Cutrone Fires Intern After Blog Mishap Abrams Research's Mediaite Launches Today Abrams Research's Mediaite Launches Today Study: Socializing Twice As Popular Than Business or Shopping Online James Andrews Leaves Ketchum, Is Everywhere with Jane Fonda, Jermaine Dupri, and Delta Detroit Agency Catches Twitter Imposter Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone: We Have Not Hired "Any PR Company" Golin Harris, Cohn & Wolfe and Porter Novelli Win Walmart Work |
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