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| Terry Rooney |
RooneyPartners launches offering targeted at early-stage growth companies. Leveraging public relations, social media and digital communications, RP Blitz Branding is geared toward helping such companies accelerate their brand-building process, with the goal of creating immediate market impact and driving business success. It will work with “acorn companies with unicorn ambitions” to help them drive product and service sell-through, speed up the process of capital raises and engender interest from financial and strategic partners. “Managements of early-stage companies need an entrepreneurially-driven PR advocate determined to quickly make a major impact on the market in support of business and financial goals,” said RooneyPartner founder and CEO Terry Rooney
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The Worldcom Public Relations Group has brought on Tel Aviv-based public relations and strategic consulting agency PR360 as a member. Founded in 2015 by Aviram Cohen and Dr. Hilik Goldstein, PR360 works mainly with financial institutions and establishments that maintain a strong presence in the Israeli market, with expertise in such areas as banking, mergers and buyouts. It also provides a full suite of communications services. “PR360 is an outstanding agency and important addition to our partnership. They provide us with a strong presence in Israel and make a wonderful addition to our strong group of partners across EMEA,” said Todor Ianev, managing partner of Janev & Janev and Worldcom’s EMEA Region Chair.
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| C.L. Conroy and Jorge Martinez with Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase. |
The Conroy Martinez Group, a Miami-based global public relations, marketing and social media firm, is celebrating its 30th year in business. Having worked with such clients as Bacardi, Taubman, Coca Cola, NFL, Cirque du Soleil, Hilton, United Healthcare and the American Red Cross, CMG serves English and Spanish speaking regional, national and international audiences in the U.S. and Latin America. Founded in 1990 by C.L. Conroy as Conroy Communications, the shop rebranded as CMG in 2001 to reflect the partnership between Conroy and agency partner Jorge Martinez. It has been a member of the Public Relations Global Network for almost 10 years. “We decided strategically to grow our company with more national and international clients. So, it was a natural fit to join PRGN,” said Conroy.
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