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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.
Supreme Group launches Supreme Intelligence FDE+ (Forward Deployed Expert), a service model that embeds AI-native domain experts directly inside client organizations to architect and build custom AI solutions... LaVoie Strategic Communications Group announced that the federal trademark registrations for its LHS Immersion and LHS Fifteen-Slide Presentation have been renewed... Sprout Social introduces an AI-powered social intelligence platform designed to help organizations operationalize real-time, unfiltered market conversations at scale.
Ever Wondered, a London-based advisory firm focused on helping companies deliver clear, consistent messages across every channel in AI search, launches... The Museum of Public Relations launches platform that allows users to connect with an AI persona of Edward Bernays, based entirely on his own writings... PRGN releases a study in which 89 percent of business leaders surveyed said hey find brand influence as “extremely” or “very” important.
BGR Analytics rates Texas as the best state for AI investors to place their money, according to its newly launched BGR Best States for AI Investment Index... Pierpont Communications, a PR and integrated digital marketing agency headquartered in Houston, expands into South Florida... The Pollack Group names Project Petals as the recipient of its 2026 Big Red Grant.
LaVoie Strategic Communications Group launches an integrated market platform and redesigned website meant to reflect the agency’s evolving role advising healthcare, life sciences and government organizations... Highwire publishes “Passing the Torch: A Framework for CEO Transition Communication for Professional Services Businesses"... Auris, a communications lab backed by a strategic investment from Helios & Partners, launches.
MikeWorldWide acquires HudsonLake, a strategic communications firm specializing in organizational change, employee experience and workforce communications.
