Industry Happenings
Fleishman-Hillard acquired May 15 R. Duffy Wall & Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm. The firm has a staff of 25 and annual billings of $6 million. It will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary. (FH, 202/828-8818)
Denver PR firms, Brozena & Schaller & Associates and I/O Communications Network, hope their merger will strengthen their business-to-business PR and marketing skills. The new firm is Brozena Schaller Menaker & Ripley. The change coincides with a move to a new office in lower downtown Denver. (Michael Menaker, BSM&R, 303/294-9944.)
The Public Affairs Council, Washington, D.C., released its annual report, "A Work in Progress," with a fresh face. For the first time, the report dices up the state of public affairs today with a wide smattering of details: stats on its membership; the evolution of public affairs; ethical guidelines; and retrospectives. For a copy, call 202/872-1790
Companies were advised that effectively positioning their companies requires target packaging of print, broadcast and new media outlets so that efforts aren't duplicated at a recent workshop led by Alan Towers Associates, Inc., New York.
Alan Towers was selected by the American Stock Exchange to lead an Amex-sponsored media relations workshop for 28 publicly held companies April 27. (Alan Towers, 212/354-5020)
Logging Onto the Future
Corporate CEOs and professionals are increasingly logging on to the Web to conduct business affairs ranging from law and real estate to banking, advertising and marketing, according to the Investext Group, a division of Thomson Financial Services, which has recently developed an application to help such professionals find information on the Web.
The application is called Research Bank Web, which produces reports from analysts at research firms. More than 5,000 reports are added to the bank each week. It now holds 500,000 reports which are available for immediate viewing and downloading in portable document format. (Bud Jackson, Investext Group, 800/662-7878)
