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President of LevLane Ad and PR Co. Named President of MAAN David A. Lane, president of LevLane Advertising and Public Relations, Bala Cynwyd, Pa., has been elected president of the Mutual Advertising Agency Network (MAAN),… Continued

This is the first of a two-part series. Next week, we’ll look at how the campaign shifted from the promotional stage to one of crisis communications. The toy may have been an overnight sensation, but… Continued

March 18-21: The Center for Corporate Community Relations, "Institute on Corporate Community Relations," Boston, 617/552-4545. March 18: NJ/IABC, "Balancing Work and Life," Morristown, N.J., 201/267-4328. March 19: Dayton/Miami Chapter PRSA, "When the News Media Make… Continued

Did Texaco Learn From Crisis? Texaco officials are planning on reviewing their strategy for change and broadening workforce diversity during a one-hour panel discussion at the International Strategic Leadership Conference, sponsored by the Strategic Leadership… Continued

Several big-name PR firms are altering the terrain of the global market with some recent acquisitions: Edelman Public Relations, New York, acquired its 10-person, 15-client Taiwan affiliate, Profiles Corporate Communications Consultants, for less than $1… Continued

PSAs targeting ear infections should be on the rise –as middle-ear infections among preschoolers have risen sharply in the 1990s, a report based on government surveys in 1995 and 1996 suggests. The surveys used interviews… Continued

While hospitals increased marketing spending slightly last year, the advertising portion of those budgets was slashed by 20 percent, according to a recent annual survey of hospital marketers. Results of the 1996 National Hospital Marketers… Continued

Reflex hammers, fetal heart stethoscopes and a steel replacement hipare some of the visual elements Mullen used in a bold campaign for Memorial Health Care, a medical center in Worcester, Mass. Hospital marketers hope the… Continued

Fighting for its survival, Fallon Community Health Plan, in Springfield, Mass., is making a big marketing push into Boston, a market already crowded by well-entrenched health maintenance organizations. Fallon Community Health Plan, which has been… Continued

Low awareness of genital herpes combined with a rising incidence of the disease has prompted SmithKline Beecham to initiate a broad-based, direct-to-consumer genital herpes education and awareness campaign involving thought-provoking print advertising in leading women’s… Continued