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The Waite Company has rebranded. The new brand includes a new logo, tagline and refreshed website that was designed to reflect the Albuquerque's firm's recent advancements in capabilities and scope. The company will launch a completely revamped website in early 2019. Founded by Whitney Waite in 2012, The Waite Company has served clients in such sectors as healthcare, tourism, water, natural resources and education. The company says it plans to be heavily focused on environmental and water projects in the coming years. It also has offices in Albuquerque, Taos and Melbourne
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Fox Greenberg Public Relations, a boutique lifestyle PR firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles, has added an office in San Francisco headed by Kacy Shaw. The outpost will serve Napa Valley clients. Founded in 2003, FGPR works with clients in the health, beauty, hospitality, non-profit, media and event spaces, including Festival Napa Valley, City Winery, The Ink House, Alohilani Resort Waikiki Beach and JJ Young by Caolion Cosmetics.
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TBWA/Helsinki handles Neste, a company that creates sustainable solutions for transport, business and consumer needs. It has launched Zerobnb, a site where people can list sustainable alternatives for vacation lodgings. The company says that one of its goals in starting up Zerobnb is to encourage Airbnb, the leading accommodation-sharing site, to include a category for travelers who seek sustainable accommodations. Zerobnb will be live only until Airbnb creates such a category. “The demand for more sustainable travel is growing, but when you are not an expert, it can be very demanding to evaluate whether a certain accommodation is sustainable or not,” said Neste director of marketing Sirpa Tuomi. “Our goal is to provoke discussion and we are hoping that this will inspire Airbnb to add a sustainable accommodation category onto their site.”
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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