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TURNER has been appointed agency of record for Discover South Carolina, The Westin Nashville, The Notary and The Ritz Carlton St. Thomas. The agency will open a South Carolina office when its contract with Discover South Carolina goes live on July 1. TURNER will help the organization strengthen media relations, manage pitches, missions, events and tours, and provide support for its Chef Ambassador program. For the Westin Nashville, the agency is providing media relations, digital content, and social media services. TURNER is creating a long term media relations strategy as well as supporting opening activations and community engagement for The Notary, a new hotel in Philadephia. The Ritz Carlton St. Thomas, which is reopening this fall after last year’s hurricanes, has engaged the agency to manage media relations.
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Zehnder Communications is now working with the Brookhaven Convention and Visitors Bureau, which was established in 2018 to promote and build awareness of Brookhaven, a city in the northeastern Atlanta metro area. The CVB has engaged Zehnder to handle logo creation, digital ads, website development and optimization, paid media, public relations and social media. The partnership will also incorporate experiential marketing, digital media strategies and social media activations. Opened in 1996, Zehnder serves regional, national and global clients from its offices in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Nashville.
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D&D PR has added MINT Hotels & Residences, a group of five boutique hotels in the Dominican Republic, to its roster of hospitality clients. D&D PR is launching the brand in the US market, with an emphasis on lifestyle consumer media as well as on the travel trade community, with coverage in industry-specific outlets. A focus for the campaign is to change consumer perceptions of the Dominican Republic. The properties are geared toward expressing the essence of the country through their cuisine, design, warm service and embrace of the surrounding natural beauty.
Gateway Group gets investor relations duties for Genasys, a company offering a comprehensive portfolio of preparedness, response, and analytics software and hardware systems... Stone Junction lands Precision Micro, a photochemical etching company, to help raise its visibility in industrial markets... PhillComm Global is named agency of record for futurist Matt Maher and his firm, M7 Innovations.
Redpoint is named US-based PR agency of record for Kintetsu Railway, the largest private railway system in Japan...Ogilvy Health is named PR and marketing agency of record for Azurity Pharmaceuticals... Zapwater Communications signs on .HERE Maldives, a resort operated by Seaside Collection... Cherish PR's London-based team has been engaged by the Lagos International Theatre Festival for a UK PR brief to raise awareness of this year’s Festival.
FleishmanHillard is named strategic communications consultancy for the Bay Area Host Committee... Kite Hill is named PR partner for the Artist and the Machine summit, which till take place Nov. 19 in Los Angeles... Alliance Connection, a Detroit-based agency that specializes in all-inclusive resorts, travel and hospitality, wins Elite Island Resorts with properties in Antigua, Barbados and Panama.
Merlot Marketing is named agency of record for Nichiha USA, a manufacturer of building material solutions... Sally Beauty, the consumer retail division of parent company Sally Beauty Holdings, appoints Creative Media Marketing as its public relations agency of record... Doner comes on board as agency of record for Rush Street Gaming, which operates Rivers Casino locations in Pittsburgh; Philadelphia; Des Plaines, IL; Portsmouth, VA; and Schenectady, NY.
JPR Group picks up Kimmel Architecture (formerly Kimmel-Bogrette Architecture + Site) to establish a presence in the senior living marketplace... RG2 Communications, adds Pollini at Ladbroke Hall, an Italian restaurant that is part of the 43,000 sq.-ft. Edwardian landmark, which presents live music, contemporary art, dance and gastronomy... M&C Communications assumes PR duties for Hope for Stomach Cancer nonprofit group.
