New York Area
Edelman, New York/Heineken USA, as AOR for corporate communications and its Dos Equis brand, following an RFP process. The work includes reputation management, employee engagement counsel and day-to-day media relations. MSLGroup, which handles the Heineken and Amstel Light brands, had the corporate business. H+K Strategies worked the Dos Equis account.
5W PR, New York/Travel Alberta, tourism marketing agency for the government of Alberta, Canada, for PR focused on the capital, Edmonton.
Robertson Solutions, New York/Tourism Northern Territory, government tourism body for Australia's Outback Northern Territory, for a renewal after winning the business in 2008. RS president Kylie Robertson heads the account.
Nancy J. Friedman PR, New York/The Jade Hotel, boutique hotel in Greenwich Village scheduled to open in fall 2012, for PR.
Workhouse, New York/Papadam, Upper East Side (Indian) eatery slated for September opening, for PR.
East
Calypso Communications, Portsmouth, N.H./Monadnock Paper Mills, for PR, marketing and creative.
Southeast
The Brandon Agency, Myrtle Beach, S.C./Santee Cooper, state-owned electric and water utility and the state's largest power producer, as AOR, after an RFP.
Uproar PR, Orlando/Savage Race, mud and obstacle racing company, as AOR.
Max Borges Agency, Miami/CM4, electronics cases; CUBEDGE, wireless speakers; Dbest London, speaker designer; Drift Innovation, HD cameras; Ego & Company, Apple accessories; Electric Friends, iPhone docking stations, and EnChroma, glasses for those with color vision deficiency, all for PR.
Midwest
SSPR, Chicago/Herborium Group, botanical-based medicinal products, for PR and marketing comms.
Flowers Communications Group, Chicago/MillerCoors, a renewal to handle multicultural outreach, adding the Coors Light and Miller Lite brands. The firm also picked up outreach duties for Major League Baseball's first Diversity Business Summit on July 24 in Chicago.
Mountain West
Wall Street Communications, Salt Lake City/Primestream, Miami-based advanced media asset management and broadcast automation software.
Southwest
Ideas Collide, Scotsdale, Ariz./Creative Learning Corp., developer of the Bricks 4 Kidz children's education and enrichment program, for PR.
West
Nadel Phelan, Scotts Valley, Calif./Compuverde, big data storage solutions, for PR.
International
Aspectus PR, London/iOra, data replication solutions, to manage media relations.
Burson-Marsteller, Guanzhou, China/HNA Property, developer, to manage the branding and strategic communications for Da Ying Shan, a central business district development project in the city of Haikou in Hainan Province.