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The Hong Kong Trade Development Council has selected Bob Gold & Associates to promote and raise awareness of this year’s Think Asia, Think Hong Kong symposium in Los Angeles on Friday, Sept. 20. The event, which is geared toward businesses looking to enter the Asian market, includes a business symposium, business-matching sessions and networking events. Presenters at this year’s conference include Impossible Foods, which makes meat and dairy substitutes from plant-based sources, and others who will share their experiences of doing business in Asia. The event will also address the latest trends and opportunities in such areas as financial technology, digital entertainment and biotechnology.
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Brandware has expanded its relationship with homebuilder Ashton Woods by being named public relations agency partner to the Texas divisions of the company. The agency has already worked with Ashton Woods for three years, leading media relations for the corporate brand and in the Atlanta market. Brandware’s Atlanta-based team will manage media relations and help establish the brand’s thought leadership to assist in promoting new communities and expanding awareness of Ashton Woods across Texas. Brandware’s client roster also includes Mercedes-Benz, Starbucks and XM Satellite Radio.
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Hill+Knowlton Strategies, in conjunction with Team GB (Great Britain’s Olympic team), has launched One Year to Go, a campaign to spread awareness of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which kick off on July 24, 2020. To launch the campaign, Team GB and several Olympians are issuing a newspaper about the countdown to the Olympics in various places across the UK to spread Olympic fever. The campaign will also include such events as a demonstration of some new sports that will appear on the 2020 Olympic lineup and a showreel of highlights from the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games. There will also be an advertising initiative encouraging the nation to come together behind Team GB. H+K Strategies cites a recently conducted Nielsen study in which 64 percent of respondents said that Team GB brings the nation together.
4media group completes its acquisition of Family Features Editorial Syndicate... Illumination PR, which represents lifestyle brands, influencers and celebrities, launches DR Media Group... EAG Advertising and Marketing acquires pay-for-performance firm INK inc. Public Relations. 
LLYC launches Signs of Pride, a campaign that revives the original protest banners of the first Pride marches... The Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry forms the Public Relations and Digital Marketing Working Group... Circle of One Marketing, a Miami-based, minority-owned marketing agency, is named official agency of record for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami. 
Vogel Group, a DC-headquartered government affairs and consulting firm, forms a strategic partnership with Montreal-based public affairs firm Boléro Stratégies... Matter Communications launches project-based offerings for B2C companies looking to increase brand awareness and visibility... Tucker/Hall, a Tampa-based PR and public affairs firm, opens a new office in Orlando. 
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Edelman is laying off 330 people (5.3 percent of its workforce) to cope with an anticipated eight percent shortfall in 2024 US revenues, and client demand for one-stop shopping for speciality services.
