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APCO Starts Multimedia Group APCO Associates Inc., Washington, D.C., the public affairs and lobbying wing of the GCI Group, launched APCO Technology Services. The new unit will offer consulting and product development services that employ… Continued

Marketing communications agency Grafica Inc., Chester, N.J., has moved to: 525 E. Main St., Chester, NJ 07930, 908/879-2169. San Francisco-based The Montgomery Group, a marketing PR and corporate communications firm, has moved to: 555 Montgomery… Continued

poppe.com Goes to Asia, Europe poppe.com, the interactive unit of Poppe Tyson Advertising and Public Relations, New York, opened new offices in Hong Kong and London. Jonathan Hague heads the Hong Kong office, poppe.com/Asia. It… Continued

May 25-28: International Public Relations Association, “International Conference: A Better World for Communication in Central and Eastern European Countries,” Budapest, Hungary, 011-41-22-791- 0550. May 29-31: American Management Association, “Managing Marketing Communications,” Chicago, 800/262-9699. May 30:… Continued

The International Association of Business Communicators selected William Gallagher, CEO of Gallagher Group Ltd., Hamilton, New Zealand, an electric fencing manufacturer, as recipient of IABC’s “Excellence in Communication Leadership” award. (IABC, 415/433-3400, ext. 117)

Meyer Goldberg, head of Business Wire’s wire photo operations, died on May 11 of complications from cancer. He was 82. A 40-year veteran of the Associated Press, he joined Business Wire three years ago and… Continued

The board of directors of the Public Relations Society of America earlier this month approved plans to offer an introductory public relations accreditation test to university students pursuing public relations and communications degrees. To be… Continued

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) elected Stephen Lacy as its 1996-97 president- elect. Lacy is a full professor at the school of journalism at Michigan State University, East Lansing. His… Continued

Robinson, Lerer To Exit Bozell Ken Lerer, Linda Robinson and Ken Montgomery–three of the top executives of the Sawyer Miller/Robinson Lerer Montgomery Group, New York–are leaving the firm. Confirming a May 3 report in The… Continued

Program courts students to start with Canon, pros to switch Companies can look at markets as static entities comprised of groups with whom they would like to gain market share. Or they can look at… Continued