Euro RSCG Worldwide acquires Internet PR firm Middleberg + Associates. Founder Don Middleberg will remain CEO of the new entity, known as Middleberg Euro RSCG.
Shandwick founder Peter Chadlington will leave Interpublic Group (which now owns Shandwick) in September. The division he was heading - which housed Weber PR,
Golin/Harris and Shandwick - has been reconstituted as part of Interpublic's Allied Communications Group, chaired by Larry Weber.
Don Foley, former press secretary for Rep. Richard Gephardt, leaves post as VP worldwide corporate communications at Northwest Airlines to join Shandwick as COO/managing
director. Mike Collins, most recently press secretary for the Republican National Committee, joins as executive VP...Ame Wadler is named chairman of Burson-Martsteller's U.S.
healthcare practice.
For Dad's Day: Home Depot hopes to score points on the good corporate citizen-ometer with its sponsorship of "Real Men Cook," a 10-city cook-off benefiting local
charities.
Veteran counselor Farley Manning, a founding partner of the agency now known as Manning Selvage & Lee, dies at 90.
