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Weill checks into Hotel Vannucci, a 117-year-old property in Umbria's hilltop Città della Pieve. The agency will be handling all PR activities for the hotel in North America. Hotel Vannucci, which reopened in January 2020 after a two-year renovation, was subsequently closed down by the COVID-19 pandemic, reopening again in June. Bought in 2018 by Roberto Wirth, fourth-generation owner of the Hassler in Rome, the property was gutted and transformed into a 30-room 21st-century boutique hotel.
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Ballantines Public Relations is now public relations agency of record for the Conrad Bora Bora Resort in French Polynesia. The agency is tasked with providing strategic guidance and execution to raise consumer awareness of the resort. The Conrad Bora Bora Resort, which includes a spa and beachfront infinity pool, was ranked #4 in Australia & the South Pacific and #2 in French Polynesia by the Condé Nast Traveler Reader’s Choice Award. The resort joins BPR’s roster of lifestyle and luxury travel clients, which includes Mariott International Lifestyle Brands, Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills and St. Regis Maldives.
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Heather Krug PR & Marketing has been engaged to create strategic media plans for Clickstream, a technology company focused on developing apps and digital platforms. The agency will also be supporting Clickstream’s new trivia app, WinQuik. The free-to-play platform, which features gaming shows and content, offers users the opportunity to win cash and prizes. Clickstream is monetizing WinQuik with corporate sponsors by offering unique user hits and driving views to their product from its games. “Heather came to us highly recommended, and we needed someone who could jump right in and help generate awareness around WinQuik,” Clickstream CEO Frank Magliochetti.
Redpoint is named US-based PR agency of record for Kintetsu Railway, the largest private railway system in Japan...Ogilvy Health is named PR and marketing agency of record for Azurity Pharmaceuticals... Zapwater Communications signs on .HERE Maldives, a resort operated by Seaside Collection... Cherish PR's London-based team has been engaged by the Lagos International Theatre Festival for a UK PR brief to raise awareness of this year’s Festival.
FleishmanHillard is named strategic communications consultancy for the Bay Area Host Committee... Kite Hill is named PR partner for the Artist and the Machine summit, which till take place Nov. 19 in Los Angeles... Alliance Connection, a Detroit-based agency that specializes in all-inclusive resorts, travel and hospitality, wins Elite Island Resorts with properties in Antigua, Barbados and Panama.
Merlot Marketing is named agency of record for Nichiha USA, a manufacturer of building material solutions... Sally Beauty, the consumer retail division of parent company Sally Beauty Holdings, appoints Creative Media Marketing as its public relations agency of record... Doner comes on board as agency of record for Rush Street Gaming, which operates Rivers Casino locations in Pittsburgh; Philadelphia; Des Plaines, IL; Portsmouth, VA; and Schenectady, NY.
JPR Group picks up Kimmel Architecture (formerly Kimmel-Bogrette Architecture + Site) to establish a presence in the senior living marketplace... RG2 Communications, adds Pollini at Ladbroke Hall, an Italian restaurant that is part of the 43,000 sq.-ft. Edwardian landmark, which presents live music, contemporary art, dance and gastronomy... M&C Communications assumes PR duties for Hope for Stomach Cancer nonprofit group.
Konnect Agency connects with Crescent Hotels & Resorts... FleishmanHillard specialty agency Methods+Mastery’s "Team BDG” comes on board as agency of record for Blue Diamond Growers... The Lacek Group, a loyalty, CRM and brand marketing agency that is part of Ogilvy One, picks up FNBO financial services outfit.
