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Mower chairman and CEO Eric Mower transfers 100 percent ownership of the company to employees via an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Mower will remain in his current position, as will other senior Mower executives. About 150 of the agency’s employees will become “employee owners” at no cost to them, with equity in the business and an additional retirement benefit. “The ESOP allows Mower to remain independent, to maintain our professional standards and practices and for our employees to know that their future is in their hands,” said Mower. The company’s employee owners are based across the U.S., including New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Miami, Charlotte, Cincinnati, and four major upstate New York cities—Buffalo, Albany, Rochester and Syracuse.
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The Worldcom Public Relations Group appoints Todor Ianev to a second term as chair. Ianev, managing director of Janev & Janev in Sofia, Bulgaria, will serve alongside The Pollack Group president Stefan Pollack, who is vice chair for a second year. RLF Communications partner Monty Hagler will serve as chair of the group’s North American committee. Luis Avellaneda, managing director of Lima, Peru’s Realidades, will serve a second term as chair of the LATAM committee and Serge Beckers of Wiese Kommunkikatie in Amhem, The Netherlands is staying on as chair of the EMEA committee.
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Edge Partners, a private equity and strategic growth firm, launches Edge Creative Growth, which offers marketing services to RIAs (registered investment advisors). The venture, which is led by Edge Partners CMO Silvia Roa-Madan, will offer its services as a stand-alone capability for marketing clients or as an integrated capability supporting Edge's private equity growth partnerships. The services Edge Creative Growth provides include acquisition & transition focused marketing, digital content strategy, account-based marketing and brand development. "Our goal is to help wealth management firms create and communicate a differentiated identity, one that makes them stand out as an attractive destination for clients and business partners," said Roa-Madan.
Precision Strategies, an integrated strategy and marketing agency with offices in Washington and New York, acquires Firehouse Strategies, a DC-based public affairs firm... AVENIR GLOBAL acquires London-based Thinks Insight & Strategy... Good Company, which bills itself as a “cultural engineering firm,” is launched by DJ Hardy, a veteran of Johannesburg-based communications consultancy arxna and M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment and Casey Stickles, who has worked at 5WPR, Rubenstein and MWW.
PSC (Princeton Strategic Communications) acquires Nonprofit Partners... CG Life launches 24/364, a cultural brand platform intended to drive awareness, connection and action aimed at keeping rare disease at the forefront of the health and social conversation... Interluxe Group, which focuses on brand experiences and in-person activations; Quinn, a strategic communications agency; and media and digital agency North & Warren are uniting under the Interluxe Group banner.
KITH, which provides corporate reputation and crisis preparation services, is now owned by CEO Stephanie Craig, who has been with the firm since 2021... The Marketing Cloud, a part of Stagwell, introduces several expansions to Agent Cloud, the platform it launched in October 2025 to simplify access to its AI tools and marketing assistants.... Notified launches its AI Press Release Optimizer.
V2 Communications launches its AI Visibility Solution and Earned Media at Scale, two service offerings designed to help companies increase visibility and credibility in generative search... The Public Relations Global Network brings on Greenough Communications as its Boston member agency... DBC is relaunching The DBC Industry Calendar as a free site to help communicators more easily discover relevant events and awards in the cluttered event landscape driven by the growth of webinars and online events. 
PAN releases new original research showing that a significant share of B2B citations surfaced by ChatGPT are inaccurate, misattributed or entirely fabricated, introducing a new credibility risk for brands... REQ, which has offices in DC and San Diego, opens in Phoenix... Notified introduces Market Intelligence, an addition to its all-in-one IR Hub, which gives IR teams a more streamlined way to prepare for earnings calls.
