The Agency Page: Recent PR account wins

General

  • Blue Horse, Milwaukee, is the new marcom agency of record for St. Francis Bank F.S.B., Milwaukee.
  • Brandon Advertising, Myrtle Beach, S.C., to handle PR for Alligator Adventure, a nature park for reptiles and amphibians in North Myrtle Beach.
  • Buck & Pulleyn, Inc., Rochester, N.Y., to handle PR campaign in the Northeast/New England area for new drawstring tea bag for Tetley USA Inc., Shelton, Conn.
  • Carter Ryley Thomas, Richmond, Va., to handle PR for Pamplin Historical Park's new National Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Petersburg, Va.
  • Cerrell Associates Inc., Los Angeles, is retained by: the American Institute for Public Safety, Los Angeles; California's High Speed Rail Authority; CENCO, Inc., an oil refinery co.; Livingstone's retail store of Beverly Hills; Panda Management Company; Questar; Skytrails Aviation, an owner/renter of aircraft hangars; and Super Shuttle.
  • Communications 21, Atlanta, to handle grand opening celebration for Kroger Food Stores, Snellville, Ga.
  • Cramer-Krasselt, Chicago, to handle consumer and professional PR and promotions for Transitions Optical, Inc., Pinellas Park, Fla., retailers of plastic photochromic lenses. The account was formerly handled by Creamer Dickson Basford, New York.
  • Domus, Inc., Philadelphia, is the agency of record for ARAMARK's School Support Services division, Philadelphia, serving 300 school districts.
  • Hadeler White PR, Dallas, is the agency of record for American Fastsigns, Inc., Carrolton, Texas, a franchiser of custom sign and graphic stores.
  • Hickman + Associates, Indianapolis, to manage the wet weather public education program for The City of Indianapolis, to educate public on river and stream water quality issues.
  • Hill and Knowlton, Inc., New York, to provide PR counsel to Bandai America, Inc., a Cypress, Calif.-based toy licensee.
  • Innis Maggiore Group, Canton, Ohio, to handle PR for Camelot Music Holdings, Inc., North Canton, Ohio.
  • InProCom Ltd., London, to manage media relations and press office functions for Pamela Stevens UK Ltd., an independently owned group of beauty clinics in the UK.
  • Reeves Agency, Baltimore, will provide marketing for Marlo Industries, Inc., Baltimore, a manufacturer and distributor of industrial cleaning products.
  • Rein Nomm & Associates, Inc., Plymouth, Mich., to provide IR for Clark Engineers MW, Inc., Peoria, Ill.
  • Results Media Group, Phoenix, to handle national broadcast media campaign for ICON Health & Fitness, Inc.
  • Richard French & Associates, Raleigh, N.C., to handle media relations for The Professional Bull Riders Tour, Colorado Springs.
  • Stoorza, Ziegaus, & Metzger, Inc., San Diego, to conduct market research and PR for Symmetry Postural Therapy, a start-up therapeutic exercise facility in Del Mar.
  • Strat@comm, Washington, D.C., to handle educational campaign for The Aluminum Association, Washington, D.C., for policy makers media.
  • The Headline Group, Atlanta, to handle PR for: P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Atlanta; General Cinema Theatres, Marietta, Ga.; and Aircond, Inc., Atlanta, a provider of energy and indoor environment systems to commercial, industrial and institutional southeast clients.
  • Trombone Associates, New York, to handle PR for Carambola Beach Resort, U.S. Virgin Islands.

Technology/Online

  • Collaborative Communications, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., adds new clients: InSight Telecommunications LLC., Conn., outsourcing services in the broadcast industry; LeoLogic, Andover, Mass., provides software tools verifying raw data and transforming it; and MasterWorks, Wakefield, Mass., technology solutions for customer prospects.
  • DeLaunay/Phillips, Seattle, to handle new media campaign for Absolute Software; announcing minority equity investments made by Intel Corporation, EnCompass Ventures and CIBC Capital Ventures/Oppenheimer, Vancouver, B.C.
  • Drasnin Communications, Del Mar, Calif., to handle local corporate identity campaign positioning for Vortex Technologies, San Diego.
  • KCSA Worldwide, New York, becomes PR agency for Cognet Corp., Valhalla, N.Y., a software company for enterprise network management solutions.
  • Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, New York, will handle PR for Alydaar Software Corp., Charlotte, N.C., a software re-engineering company.
  • Tattar Cutler-LF&B, Horsham, Pa., retained by Reed Technology and Information Services, Horsham, Pa., a provider of information technology solutions.
  • The Ardell Group, Del Mar, Calif., is agency of record for Wavetek Wandel and Goltermann, Inc., a provider of communications test solutions for the telecom networks, broadcast, wireless and enterprise networks markets.