Global PR network Worldcom has added four new partners from four distinct corners of the globe: Vancouver’s Curve Communications; Brussels-based agency European Service Network; Haryana, India firm SPAG; and Yangon, Myanmar-based shop Zagar Communications.
PR and digital marketing agency Curve was founded in 2000. Digital media agency ESN, which negotiates trade deals on the EU’s behalf, was founded in 1986 and has a staff of more than 100. Marketing communications and advocacy firm SPAG, which was founded in 2002, specializes in government affairs and is one of India’s fastest-growing firms. Zagar, now the leading independent PR agency in Myanmar, was founded in 2014 and was one of that country’s first PR agencies.
The new additions were formally announced at Worldcom’s 2016 global conference in Brussels. Worldcom’s network of independent PR firms now includes more than 140 offices in 110 cities around the world. Combined revenues in 2015 exceeded $288 million.
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