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Spurrier Group, a marketing and media agency with offices in Richmond and Washington, D.C., is partnering with hunger-relief organization FeedMore to develop strategic campaigns to reach targeted audiences about hunger issues and critical food needs in Central Virginia. The collaboration will include media research, strategic planning, channel and media planning, media negotiation and placement of messaging, and evaluation. The majority of these services will be a pro bono offering from Spurrier Group.
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GateHouse Media is teaming up with Richard Gore, former president of live events at the Food Network, to present Flavored Nation℠, an event celebrating the most iconic food from each of the 50 states. Flavored Nation will set up shop Oct. 27-29 in The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, with each dish being presented by the restaurateur or chef who prepares it best. GateHouse’s event production and execution division, GateHouse Live, will be responsible for organizing three stages of custom entertainment in addition to the 50 vendors offering each state’s signature food offering.
Target appoints Mark Weinstein as chief marketing and guest experience officer... Deerfield Group, which works with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, health tech and consumer health companies, appoints Brian Rocks as CFO and Shelby Rauen as head of strategy... Hailstone Strategies, a PR and strategic communications firm for labor unions and workers’ rights organizations, hires LaToya Smith and Andrew Baker as VPs.
Precision Strategies has recruited DGA Group Americas head Adam Cubbage as CEO of the Washington-based firm.
John Flannery, who has more than two decades of
Christine Lewis, who was most recently SVP at Inkhouse, moves to Tier One Partners, where she will be SVP, managing director. 
Dezenhall Resources, a DC-based crisis management and public affairs firm names Jennifer Condon as SVP. Condon joins the firm from America250, the congressionally authorized organization overseeing the United States’ 250th-anniversary commemoration... Thunderly brings on Carlos Cortinas as chief strategy officer, a newly created position... Reputation Advisors International, a global network of senior communications professionals with members in 18 cities across 14 countries, brings on Thiago Vitale, CEO of Brazilian firm TORRE Comunicação e Estratégia, as its newest member. 
