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| Peter Verrengia |
FleishmanHillard has launched a cross-functional global practice to counsel clients during the post-COVID-19 era. FleishmanHillard’s Recovery and Resurgence Practice will provide brand and reputation counsel, and share scenario planning and best practices across disciplines, industry sectors and geographies. The practice team will partner with client service teams that have deep knowledge of individual client situations, geographies and opportunities. “Recovery is going to be a process, not an event, and not a linear process in most places,” said FleishmanHillard senior partner Peter Verrengia, who will lead the firm’s efforts. “Organizations need to move from today’s ‘business as possible’ to the strongest possible recovery in the context of the reality we find at the end of the pandemic curve.”
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| Marianne Admardatine |
Hill+Knowlton Strategies is setting up shop in Indonesia, taking over Verve (the public relations arm of fellow WPP company Wunderman Thompson) and opening H+K Indonesia. The office will be led by former Wunderman Thompson Indonesia CEO Marianne Admardatine, who supervised the Indonesia launch of Verve in 2018. Joining Admardatine from Verve will be managing director Harry Deje and public affairs director Ahmad Zaki. “Indonesia continues to experience significant economic growth and is attracting investment by multi-regional companies,” said H+K global chairman and CEO AnnaMaria DeSalva.” DeSalva added that the new office “directly supports our plan for ongoing growth in Asia.”
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iMARS Communications of Moscow teams with Miami's VIBE Agency to provide PR and events support for American companies entering Russia and for companies from Russia and the CIS entering the US market. VIBE focuses on destination management and event production. It has worked for LVMH, Microsoft and L'Oreal.
The Communications Group, a Little Rock-based shop releases its first Public Affairs Marketing Trends Report... The Worldcom Public Relations Group votes Paris-based firm SEITOSEI•ACTIFIN into its global partnership... PRNEWS, a European PR-tech firm, relocates its U.S. headquarters to downtown Miami.
af&co., a San Francisco-based hospitality marketing and PR agency founded by Andrew Freeman, is marking its 20th anniversary... Notified launches Syndicated Articles... Crosby Marketing Communications selects four students from Anne Arundel Community College for its marketing scholars program.
KCSA Strategic Communications launches the KCSA AI Lab, which will develop proprietary AI systems to expand what strategic communications can achieve for PR and IR clients... Clipbook, a vertical AI platform for strategic communications and public affairs, closes a $3.3 million seed round co-led by Mark Cuban, Commonweal Ventures and Carpenter Capital... VizSense, a Boston-based AI influencer marketing agency, teams up with holographic storytelling company Geminai, to launch what they say is the next frontier in brand experiences: interactive holograms powered by AI.
Ways Marketing Solutions, a Saudi Arabia-based marketing and communications group, teams with H&K alum James Drewer and Cake founder Mike Mathieson, to launch Ways Global Communications with HQs in London and Riyadh... UNICEPTA, a media intelligence provider within Stagwell’s The Marketing Cloud, launches an integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot... MAD Global CEO Mike DuHaime has been named to New Jersey Governor-Elect Mikie Sherrill’s transition team.
Ogilvy launches CultureCurrent, a social-first earned media offering that integrates cutting-edge technology with human cultural intuition to listen, identify, activate and amplify brand stories.... Forward Global, a risk and reputation management advisory firm, opens in Abu Dhabi... Lyons Broadcast PR marks its 20th anniversary with the introduction of new virtual production technology, enhanced media outreach tools, and integrated broadcast-digital strategies.
