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Edelman picks up the Bahrain Economic Development Board for strategic communications and media relations services to promote business investment, along with the Kingdom’s brand and “value proposition.”
The contract, which went into effect on Oct. 5, calls for Edelman to secure positive coverage in targeted US markets to reach potential investors, decision-makers and c-suite executives.
The $70K effort has Edelman delivering a dozen press releases; ten story ideas and 20 newsjacking or interview pitches; six Q&As or op-eds, and conducting media outreach.
Edelman’s Seth Hand, managing director, provides strategic counsel to the BEDB.
Simon Hailes, director, is the account lead; Sarah Algethami, director, handles media outreach; George Stothard, content lead, spearheads content development; and Rami Fahmi, account manager, works the Arabic media.
APCO Worldwide parted ways with EDB on Sept. 30.
Kuwait has hired Mercury Public Affairs to handle strategic communications in connection with the Oct. 24 dedication of the Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm Memorial in Washington.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has sanctioned his former press secretary Iuliia Mendel for allegedly promoting Russian propaganda.
Gabriel Attal, who heads France’s Renaissance Partie, is relying on Gabriel Laurent Eshaghian, a Woodland Hills, CA-based real estate, aviation and investment executive, to boost his profile in the US ahead of France’s April 2027 elections.
TSG Advocates has inked a $240K one-year pact to provide PA and government relations services to the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency.
KARV is providing strategic communications to the American-Uzbek Business and Investment Council to promote US economic ties with the central Asian country.
