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| Matthew Della Croce |
Allison+Partners purchases Sommerfield Communications, a New York-based boutique corporate communications firm. Sommerfield Communications founder and president Frank Sommerfield will now serve as a managing director at Allison+Partners and will focus on growing the agency’s financial services offerings and ESG communications capabilities. Allison+Partners global president of worldwide client services Matthew Della Croce said adding Sommerfield and his team enhances Allison+Partners corporate capabilities. “Frank and his team’s experience, coupled with their proven entrepreneurial success, will help us maximize opportunities for our clients to successfully transform and grow,” said Della Croce.
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| Gil Bashe |
Finn Partners managing partner, global health Gil Bashe takes co-chair spot at the International WELL Building Institute’s IWBI Health Equity Advisory. The advisory’s mission is to identify opportunities to make healthy places available and accessible to all individuals, no matter their identity, location, background or level of ability. It will recommend key metrics and indicators for measuring and evaluating progress; identify considerations for promoting health equity at the organizational level; and provide expertise on the localization of strategies across regions and sectors. “People are worried about returning to workplaces,” Bashe told O’Dwyer’s. “If not this pandemic, then the next is a concern for millions. This mobilization of the International WELL Building Institute is a mobilization to address these health priorities.”
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| Frank Coleman |
Frank Coleman Strategies, a consulting firm focusing on public affairs, media relations, and reputation and event management, has been launched by Frank Coleman, who was previously senior advisor to the CEO of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. Before joining DISCUS as a senior vice president in 2001, Coleman was vice president at the US Chamber of Commerce.
Brunner, a Pittsburgh-based integrated marketing agency, acquires AdSkate, an AI-powered creative analytics and marketing intelligence platform that helps brands and agencies optimize advertising performance... Augustine Agency launches Flavor Theory, a foodservice marketing practice aimed at helping restaurants, food manufacturers, distributors and institutional dining organizations grow their brands and businesses... The Acceleration Community of Companies releases a report finding that almost half (49 percent) of Gen Z sports fans say they have become interested in a new sport or athlete because of fan-created content or something entirely outside the sport. 
VPE Communications, which helps organizations authentically connect with diverse audiences, celebrates 38 years in business and announces a new ownership structure... Praytell expands into the Asian market with the opening of a new office in Singapore... The International Public Relations Network unveils a new visual identity and redesigned website. 
SourceCode Communications launches SourceCode Germany, establishing the agency's first office in continental Europe... Clario Group acquires Ted Miller Group, a Miami-founded agency focused on clients in the technology, travel & leisure and financial services sectors... Global Situation Room’s Global Risk Advisory Council is hosting a July 23 webinar that will go over the results of its new Reputation Risk Index.
Havas acquires MUT, a Barcelona-based firm focused on experiential marketing and sustainable events... IPREX lauches its AI Task Force...D S Simon Media, one of the first companies to produce a satellite media tour, celebrates its 40th anniversary... Washington Women in Public Relations is sponsoring an event that shows communications pros who work with associations how they can get their messages across clearly, credibly and courageously. “How Associations Lead with Strategic Storytelling,” at 6 p.m. on July 16.
TEAM LEWIS starts up its AI Practice... Thunderly launches a year-long storytelling campaign focused on how franchising can provide a pathway to business ownership... JIN, a European communications consulting group, introduces "AI Campaigning", a corporate offering designed to model and anticipate stakeholder behavior.
