Weber Group Adds $3.5 Million In Business With New Clients
Cambridge, Mass.-based The Weber Group proves that the e-commerce windfall is good news on the PR side as well. The company just lassoed $3.5 million in new business from more than a dozen clients.
They include the online bridal registry site weddingnetwork.com, and Findlaw, a Web portal providing an avenue to legal and government information and continuing legal education courses. (Weber, 617/520-7072)
Council of PR Firms Gives Fortune Subscriptions to MBAs
The Council of PR Firms, New York, gave 20 Fortune subscription awards to members of Students for Responsible Business, a national group of 1,500 MBA students at 100 graduate schools in the U.S.
The Council has been promoting PR as a necessary business component with unprecedented zeal. Last month, it sent complimentary Fortune issues containing the magazine's well-known "Most Admired Companies" list and a pull-out bound ad. (Council of PR Firms, 212/865-3015)
Appointments/Agency News
- Adrian Rodriguez is named first VP and manager of corporate communications for Washington Mutual, Los Angeles.
She was VP of corporate communications for Home Savings of America which Washington Mutual acquired last year. (Washington Mutual, 213/996-7719)
- Lorrie Paul Crum formerly head of corporate communications for Rubbermaid Corp. becomes VP of corporate communications for Parker Hannifin Corp., a diversified company based in Cleveland. (Parker Hannifin, 216/896-2130)
- MediaMap, Cambridge, Mass., plucks Brenda Kelly as VP of marketing. She was director of marketing for Lotus Notes and Domino products. (MediaMap, 617/374-9300)
- Timothy Gay, who headed Powell Tate's new business and marketing peration, is joining Burson-Marsteller's Washington, D.C. office to develop public affairs business development in the U.S. (BM, 212/614-4082)
- New acquisitions: The Torrance Companies, Ltd. acquire Powell Tate New York to form Torrance/PTNY. L. Gaye Torrance is president; the phone number is 212/521-5200; Bernard E. Ury Associates, Inc., Chicago, has been acquired by Meyer/Fredericks & Associates Ltd., becoming a new operating division of M/F&A with President Larry Schaffel named senior VP. The new phone number is 312/782-9722 and the fax is 312/782-1802; marketing agency Direct Results Group, Boston, has been bought by Jordan Industries, Inc., Deerfield, Ill. Direct Results will continue to do work under its existing name and will head marketing for SourceLink Business Service Inc., a Jordan subsidiary. (Direct Results Group, 508/881-3109)
- Fleishman-Hillard's Miami and Latin American offices have been chosen by the Transoceanic Regional Authority of Panama to promote investment in the Canal Zone. (FH, 305/520-2000)
Millennium Bug Buzz
U.S. Congresswoman Connie Morella (R-Md.), one of the House's key members on its Y2K committee, was the keynote speaker at the PR NEWS and APCO Associates' 'Strategic Communications for the Year 2000 Crisis.' Morella keeps tabs on the government's report card on readiness issues involving federal agencies.
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