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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.
FleishmanHillard is shuttering its 20-member Dublin office as Omnicom Public Relations reorganizes its global operations... Vested acquires Watermark, a D.C.-based public affairs and special situations firm.... Matter earns two Pinnacle Awards 2026 Marketing & Communications honors for its clients.
Quad/Graphics launches Direct, a Quad Agency to help marketers create, execute and measure direct marketing campaigns in one connected offering... InnoVision Marketing Group SVP/senior creative director Giselle Campos and SVP/general manager Alanna Markey are among the first-ever winners of the San Diego Business Journal’s Indispensables Awards, which recognizes professionals who make the greatest impact within their organizations and across the San Diego business community... Park Place Technologies, an IT infrastructure services firm that works with Feintuch Communications, releases the second episode of its “The Savvy CIO” podcast. 
Ripley PR is named a silver winner in the TITAN American Business Awards’ Outstanding PR Campaign category... Excellera, a corporate-advisory firm, came in at number one in deal count, as well as fourth in deal value, in Mergermarket’s list of top EMEA firms... Thunderly is telling the stories of military veterans who transferred the discipline, organization and leadership skills developed in service to their country into successful post-military careers as franchise business owners, as part of its year-long "American Dreamers: The Stories of Franchising" effort.
Legendary Boston PR man George Regan is stepping down from day-to-day management of his namesake firm. The 75-year-old will remain chairman.
CGLife, a pharma agency focused on clients who are bringing therapies for rare, specialty and hard-to-treat diseases to market, combines with AI-native agency The Considered+AI... PRSA-NY announces the shortlist for the 2026 Big Apple Awards... The Agency East Public Relations, a Fort Lauderdale–based shop that works exclusively with women business owners in the early growth stage, is expanding its practice to help women business owners get found and cited by AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, and Claude.
