Government sets meeting dates to clarify PR process
20 Dec 1999 | by CAROLYN MYLES
WASHINGTON, DC: The federal government is about to get serious in its effort to sort out its muddled marketing processes.
SUNNYVALE, CA: General Magic, which this summer launched a new consumer Web service called myTalk, has announced the hiring of TSI Communications as its PR firm of record.
WASHINGTON, DC: The federal government is about to get serious in its effort to sort out its muddled marketing processes.
AGENCY ACQUISITIONS
DALLAS: In a bid to widen its universe of potential consumers, CompUSA last week hired Lagrant Communications to handle PR and advertising for the US African- American market.
CHICAGO: Private equity firm GTCR Golder Rauner has teamed up with former CommonHealth CEO Gil Bashe to form a new healthcare marketing services network.
TORONTO: Canadian holding company Maxxcom last week purchased two integrated shops - one in the US and one in Canada - and its buying binge may just have gotten started.
PHILADELPHIA: With more than 15,000 members of the media expected to descend upon Philadelphia next summer for the Republican National Convention (RNC), local PR leaders and the convention s organizers have already begun to mobilize a colossal army of communications pros.
DALLAS: Following the Federal Trade Commission s approval of Exxon Mobil s dollars 81 billion marriage on November 30, the newly merged company has begun to tout itself and its brands aggressively.
DULLES, VA: The E. James White Company (EJW), an integrated ad/PR agency, has hired veteran marketer Bill Puckett and installed him in the new position of executive creative director.
United Biscuits has consolidated its PR by appointing Lexis PR as the lead agency for KP Foods, on fees in excess of pounds 250,000. The work was won after a two-way pitch against four-year incumbent, Countrywide Porter Novelli.
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