MINNEAPOLIS: Best Buy is positioning its Geek Squad as an ally for consumers seeking timely technology - and economic - advice this holiday season. It's expanding its Geek Squad services with things like live tech-support chat on its Web site, December 24 to 26, and pitching national media with the...
NEW YORK: The average client turnover among US PR agencies is 22% in 2008, one percentage point lower than 2007, according to the 2008 Survey of Client Turnover, the first-ever survey of its kind from StevensGouldPincus (SGP).
STOCKHOLM: Cision has reorganized its management team and European divisions in an effort to streamline its operations and improve overseas business.
NEW YORK: Five senior Porter Novelli executives, including chairman Helen Ostrowski, will be leaving the agency by the start of 2009.
NEW YORK: PR Newswire (PRN) has cut 25 positions as part of its parent company United Business Media's overall headcount reduction of 300 staff during the second half of 2008. .
ATLANTA: John Phillip Harrison, a Georgia PR and journalism professional for many years, passed away October 6 at age 75 from complications related to cancer. Harrison was PR director of WSB Radio in Atlanta in the 1960s and later opened his own firm, Harrison Public Relations.
SUNNYVALE, CA: Juniper Networks is reviewing agencies for its North American AOR. The review process is part of the company's overall business review process, but was also prompted by the hiring of a new CMO last year, said Roger Fortier corporate communications manager at Juniper Networks.
MINNEAPLOIS, MN: Padilla Speer Beardsley (PSBPR) reported approximately $3.2 million in newly acquired business for the first 8 months of 2008. This figure reflects a 31% increase in new business revenue for the same period in 2007, when the company added $2.4 million, according to PSBR chair and CEO,...
NEW YORK: Fleishman-Hillard announced on Monday that it purchased a majority stake in Paul Wilmot Communications (PWC), a New York-based agency specializing in fashion, beauty, and lifestyle PR.
LONDON: The PR and public affairs sector within the WPP Group reported a 9% increase in revenue, excluding effects of currency movements, in its half-year results released today. For the six months ending June 30, PR and public affairs revenue was $659.5 million (£356.1 million).
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