Glover Park Picks Up Keurig
Wed, Apr. 17, 2019
By Kevin McCauley
Glover Park Group picks up Keurig Green Mountain for recycling issues. Company has been long under fire for the waste generated by its single use K-Cup pods.
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Glover Park Group picks up Keurig Green Mountain for recycling issues. Company has been long under fire for the waste generated by its single use K-Cup pods.
Addiction prevention coalition Voices for Non-Opioid Choices has retained Venn Strategies to handle health issues on Capitol Hill.
Bayer’s U.S. operations have retained Forbes-Tate Partners to handle issues related to 340B, the federal drug pricing program that requires drug manufacturers to provide outpatient drugs at discounted rates.
Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton has signed on with Democracy in the Arab World Now to promote Jamal Khashoggi's effort to promote freedom in the Middle East. He's the Saudi Arabia dissident and Washington Post contributor who was tortured, murdered and dismembered by Saudi agents in Istanbul. The campaign is on behalf of Khashoggi's fiancee. (1 reader comment)
Cribs for Kids, a nonprofit promoting safe sleeping environments for babies, has retained private consulting firm Murphy Strategic Consulting to handle crib-related consumer safety issues on Capitol Hill.
Credit Suisse Securities has invested in BGR Government Affairs for DC support on legislative and regulatory matters.
The North America unit of Israel Aerospace Industries is using Trump-connected Kasowitz Benson Torres to lobby on aerospace and defense advanced technology issues. (1 reader comment)
Boston’s O’Neill and Assocs. has recruited Dan Arsenault to spearhead its Hartford government affairs unit.
Eric Burgeson, who was chief of staff to Rep. Bill Schuster, ex-chair of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, lands at Delta Air Lines as managing director of government affairs.
Former Democratic Congressman Joe Crowley, once viewed as a successor to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has joined the global public policy practice of Squire Patton Boggs.
Moonwalker Associates, the firm recently launched by former Republican Congressman Bob Walker, wants to clean up outer space.
Poland enlists services of BGR Government Affairs in its bid to win big deployment of US troops to garrison Fort Trump. (1 reader comment)
General Motors, which is laying off thousands of workers, has hired Ballard Partners, which has close ties with the Trump White House, for federal representation on labor and fuel efficiency matters. (2 reader comments)
Brendan Buck, who was a counselor to former House Speaker Paul Ryan and press secretary to his predecessor, John Boehner, is joining DC-based strategic communications and public affairs firm Blue Engine Message & Media + JDA Frontline as a partner.
Jennifer Arangio, former senior director of the White House National Security Council, is joining D.C. lobbying firm Federal Advocates as vice president. (2 reader comments)
The newly elected president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has hired Avenue Strategies Global, which has close ties with the Trump White House, to make the rounds of DC.
The US unit of China Railway Rolling Stock Corp, maker of transit rail cars, is paying Omnicom’s Mercury Public Affairs $25K a month to land a contract for the New York subway system. (1 reader comment)
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is lobbying on behalf of Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., which has been sanctioned by the Commerce Dept. (4 reader comments)
Spending on lobbyists totaled nearly $3.5 billion last year, the highest levels in nearly a decade, according to a recent report by the Center for Responsive Politics. (2 reader comments)
BGR Government Affairs is representing Altice USA, which markets its broadband communications and video services under the Optimum and Suddenlink brands.
The National Center for Transgender Equality has hired Mercury Media LLC to advocate on behalf of a spate of civil liberties–related legislative issues currently being debated on Capitol Hill.
Defense Dept. veteran Laura McAleer has joined the University of Notre Dame as associate VP for federal and Washington relations.
Subject Matter recruits H&R Block's Cedric Grant, who previously was chief of staff to Democratic up & comer Congressman Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn.
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