Bill Nowling, who ran Finn Partners' Detroit office, has exited to run the Motor City outpost of Lambert Edwards & Associates, which is based in Grand Rapids.
He joined Finn in 2014 after handling communications for then-Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr during the bankruptcy process.
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Bill NowlingJeffrey Lambert called Nowling "a highly respected peer, formidable competitor and even partner on projects in the past."
Former newspaper reporter Nowling has been active in Republican politics, serving as spokesperson for Michigan Governor Rick Snyder successful 2010 campaign. He also advised Snyder during the Flint water crisis.
LE&A chalked up $7.5M in 2016 fee income, according to O'Dwyer's ranking of top PR firms with major U.S. operations.
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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