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SFC Group, a woman-owned healthcare marketing agency, acquires CareContent, a female-owned, Chicago-based content creation company that focuses on producing accessible and educational content for healthcare organizations. Founded in 2014 by Kadesha Thomas Smith, CareContent aims to expand healthcare organizations' capacities to reach audiences. “When I first met Kadesha and the CareContent team, I saw a mirror image of SFC Group – woman-owned business, healthcare focused, committed to excellence – and I jumped at the chance to bring them into the SFC Group family," said Susan Flinn Cobian, president and CEO of SFC Group. "With this acquisition, we're proud to offer our clients expanded capabilities in content creation, from websites to social media to podcasts and everything in between.”
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Ohlmann Group, a family-owned, Dayton-based marketing and advertising firm, celebrates its 75th anniversary with the opening of a new office downtown. Headquartered on the city’s North Main Street for 55 years, Ohlmann Group donated its facilities (valued at over $600,000) to a local organization in 2023, and moved in a new suite in the 130 Building on W. Second Street. Walter Ohlmann joined Penny & Penny Advertising (founded in 1949) in 1964 to form Penny-Ohlman Inc., which eventually became Ohlman Group and where he served as CEO until 2015. His daughters, CEO/director media services Linda Ohlmann Kahn and Lori Ohlmann, continue their father’s focus on client service and community leadership. Among its plans for the anniversary, the agency will host Create the Future events for area college students who are studying marketing, communications and design.
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Calysto Communications , an Atlanta-based firm specializing in the AI, IoT, mobile, wireless and telecom industries, marks its 25th anniversary. Before founding the agency in 1999, Laura Borgstede had helped Sprint Spectrum launch the first PCS network, Nokia unveil the first smartphone and BellSouth launch Cellemetry, the first commercial machine-to-machine/Internet of Things (M2M/IoT) service. Over the past 25 years, Calysto has added content development services and social media marketing as well as expanding into such areas as IoT and artificial intelligence. It was also ahead of the game when it comes to the “work from home” model, starting an online-based team in 2006. The agency’s clients have secured more than $4.8 billion in publicly reported valuations for clients in the last 25 years. “She and her team have always taken the time to learn my beat, ask what I’m working on, and then maintained that relationship so when my coverage intersects with what their clients do, they pitch me on something that makes sense,” said Matt Vartabedian, senior editor with Informa Tech’s No Jitter.
CIVIC, a New York-based brand experience agency, acquires strategic communications consultancy Wave Kilo... Hotwire Global reaches an agreement with Morning Consult to give Hotwire Global instant access to Morning Consult’s proprietary dataset... The Public Relations Student Society of America announced its 2026–2027 International Committee... Avenue Z is named a Shopify Platinum Partner, the highest tier of Shopify’s Service Partner Program.
ICR releases a report that says the SPAC IPO market has been trending upward—and is likely to stay on that track... Washington Women in PR is sponsoring an April 15 event that looks at how women can change the dynamics that often keep them in lower-visibility positions through strategic self-advocacy and organizational awareness... Life Science Cares Boston, an organization supported by LaVoieHeathScience, will convene leaders, employees and partners from across the life sciences industry for its annual Impact Breakfast on April 13 at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport.
Bell Yard Communications and Kysen PR, London-based firms that focus on legal market and litigation PR, are merging. The combined firm will operate as Bell Yard Kysen Communications... FINN Partners launches Travel with Tastemakers, a global report that looks at more than 25 destinations through the eyes of the creatives who shape them... Baker Public Relations, a woman-owned agency based in Albany with offices in Pittsburgh, PA and St. Petersburg, FL, rebrands as The Baker Agency. 
