McGrath/Power PR, the San Jose high-tech PR powerhouse, has scooped up the IDA Ireland business in a competitive pitch.
The shop will showcase investment opportunities in Ireland to Silicon Valley companies involved in the tech, biotech and life sciences space.
MP, which has worked for the Economic Development Board of Northern Ireland, will serve the Irish Republic in tandem with PadillaCRT, which is more focused on US east coast promotion. Both firms belong to Worldcom.
Ireland’s leader Enda Kenny recently toured Silicon Valley, where he made investment pitches to firms such as eBay.
That effort paid off as eBay’s PayPal unit announced plans this month to add 400 jobs at its European operations center in Dundalk in northeast Ireland.
Those jobs will bolster PayPal’s Irish employment to just fewer than 3,000 by 2018.
Google, Hewlett Packard and Microsoft have facilities in Ireland.
Edelman is providing communications support to Panama’s Ministry of Commerce and Industries under an agreement capped at $97,100 per month.
Ballard Partners has recruited State Department veteran Matt Bryza as a senior policy advisor.
Teneo has extended its contract with the Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation for an additional four months to July 31, adding another $1.8M in fees to the New York firm’s coffers.
The Syrian Kurdish militia recruits Jim Dornan Strategies to press Congress for continued support in their battle against ISIS and Syrian president Bashar Assad.
The Government of Hungary has hired Strategic Improvisation Inc. to generate positive media coverage and combat negative press coverage of the Central European country. (6 reader comments)
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