ARPR, which opened in Atlanta five years ago, is expanding to San Francisco to service demand from its west coast clients, which account for about 35 percent of its roster.
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Colin Crook, who was communications chief at MindTouch and VP at Voce Communications, joined ARPR as its west coast representative to support media/analyst relations and strategic PR initiatives.
ARPR is setting up shop at SF’s WeWork Embarcadero locations, which becomes its third office following the 2013 opening in New Orleans.
ARPR founder Anna Ruth Williams says her firm has been steadily building relationships and revenues in the Bay Area, making the western expansion inevitable.
ARPR ranked No. 28 in O’Dwyer’s ranking of best technology PR firms with $1.3M in 2016 fee income
DJE Holdings, parent of Edelman and Zeno, launches RUTH as an independent shop named after Ruth Edelman, mental health advocate, wife and longtime business partner of Dan Edelman.
New York City PR firms make up the largest slice of O'Dwyer's 147 firm overall ranking with 33 of 40 in the New York/New Jersey area either calling Manhattan their home or having a presence there.
Subject Matter+Kivvit, which joined forces in May, has rebranded as Avoq, an integrated shop with more than 200 professionals in Washington, New York, Asbury Park (NJ), Miami and Chicago.
While PR pros stationed at in-house comms. teams and those working for agencies share many of the same objectives, they also have markedly different top priorities, according to a recent report.
Edelman is cutting 240 employees or about four percent of its workforce to cope with the cooling down of the PR sector, according to a memo from CEO Richard Edelman.
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