NY Assn. of Independent Living Floats PR RFP
Fri., May 29, 2020
By Kevin McCauley
The New York Association on Independent Living, the non-profit that promotes the independent living and rights of New Yorkers with disabilities, is looking for a firm to handle its 2020 media campaign.
JDE Peet's Counts on 193 Group
Fri., May 29, 2020
By Kevin McCauley
The One Nine Three Group handled the IPO of JDE Peet's, the world's No. 1 pure-play coffee company based on revenues, which raised $2.5B in one of the biggest stock offerings of 2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic is anticipated to erase $50 billion in global ad revenues this year, with the print media sector expected to endure some of the hardest hits, according to a WARC report.
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Commentary
President Trump appears to be losing it as more and more Americans come to realize that his presidency is a failure. (1 reader comment)
Portland State University is looking for a firm to promote awareness of its Center for Executive and Professional Education program.
Critics have blasted local TV stations for running Amazon video PR packages as "news." If PR people must do VNRs, we should clearly credit images, quotes and video. We must offer stations relevant, authentic, compelling stories that resonate for the right reasons.
Wunderlich Kaplan drops Thrive Philanthropy as a client after it was revealed that a purportedly celebrity-studded conference that Thrive was organizing had never confirmed any of the celebrities it was using to promote the event... Weber Shandwick offers to raise "media IQ" of college students and recent grads... Steller.co CEO Pete Bryant and Wagstaff Media and Marketing president Mary Wagstaff partner to support South Australian Tourism Commission,
PAN Communications adds software company OneStream for media relations, brand narrative duties... MSP-C picks up digital marketing work for Cub, which operates 79 grocery stores in Minnesota and Illinois... Brandstyle Communications scoops up Garrett Wade, Brooklyn online hand tools retailer, and One Manhattan Dental.
The Capital Area Transportation Authority, the public transit service operating within the metro Lansing, Michigan area, is seeking a PR partner for a five-year period.
Environmentalists scored a major victory at Chevron's annual meeting as shareholders supported a resolution to determine if the oil company's lobbying aligns with the Paris Climate Agreement's goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming.
Larry Kramer, the playwright and AIDS activist, died yesterday at age 84. He left his mark in two different worlds—the arts and healthcare. He changed me, too.
PR Consulting, a New York fashion shop with such clients as Narciso Rodriguez, Dries Van Noten and Raf Simons, has closed its Los Angeles office.
Kekst CNC handled Sony Financial Holdings' return to Sony Corp. full ownership 13 years after an initial public offering of 35 percent of its shares.
The public retirement system that provides retirement benefits and administration for New Jersey’s active and retired police and firemen, has issued a Request for Qualifications for marketing and communications services.
History Factory launches the COVID-19 Corporate Memory Project... Boden joins the Association of National Advertisers’ Alliance for Inclusive and Multicultural Marketing... KCD PR lands Silver Stevie Award in the Communications PR Campaign of the Year category. (1 reader comment)
ViacomCBS slated to cut from 300 to 400 staffers due to COVID-19, merger fallouts... Simon & Schuster names Jonathan Karp CEO, succeeding Carolyn Reidy, who died earlier this month... Local TV stations air "news segment" produced by Amazon's PR team, which showcases its efforts to keeps workers safe and healthy.
San Francisco is seeking a firm to handle community outreach/engagment and social media marketing for its community challenge grant program.
Edelman is handling the Chapter 11 filing of Tuesday Morning, Dallas-based off-price retailer, that is restructuring due to the "insurmountable financial hurdle" triggered by the forced prolonged closure of its stores due to COVID-19.
Commentary
Is Simon & Schuster really publishing a book called "Trump and Churchill: Defenders of Western Civilization"?... PR will play a major role in building public confidence in a COVID-19 vaccine, which could be years away. (2 reader comments)
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