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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.
Mercury has signed Institut Macaya, a Haitian think tank organized by business leaders to end the cycle of crises that have long ravaged the Caribbean country.
Connector Inc. has signed on as primary government affairs counsel to Iraqi politico Hussein AlAnkoshei.
Soma Oil and Gas Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company focused on upstream petroleum exploration and development opportunities off the coast of Somalia. is looking for US partners.
Keybridge Communications signs on to pitch Switzerland as America's "quiet ally in prosperity."
Ruder Finn, Inc. has signed on to support China’s Huawei Technologies Co. and its US research arm Futurewei’s communications in the US.
