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Morocco’s OCP Group has awarded a $180K six-month contract for public affairs services to Cogent Strategies.
The phosphate fertilizer giant, which is 94 percent owned by the Government of Morocco, has been waging a battle with the Commerce Dept. over countervailing duties.
Cogent’s contract with OCP North America calls for drafting messaging, handling media outreach, writing op-ed pieces and supporting paid media efforts and conducting targeted outreach on Capitol Hill.
OCP has a history with US firms.
In 2020, it signed $300K one-year contracts with FleishmanHillard and Cornerstone Public Affairs.
It also inked a pact with CCO Communications for outreach pegged at a $300 hourly rate.
CCO Communications is the firm set up by Tom Forsythe, who was CCO and VP-global communications at General Mills.
Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest telecommunications network, which suffered a massive Russian cyberattack in December, has hired FTI Government Affairs for representation in Washington.
Zeno Group has signed a one-year contract to provide PR strategy and counsel to the Singapore e-commerce platform of China’s Alibaba Group, the multinational retail, internet and technology behemoth.
Edelman has picked up an additional $500K worth of work to provide COP28 press office support for Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company-Masdar.
Invariant is providing DC representation to Arm Holdings, the British semiconductor design company that completed a blockbuster $5B IPO on the NASDAQ on Sept. 14.
The Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance is using Medsecurean to advance a closer relationship between India and the US, and investment opportunities for India’s drug companies.
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