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Crisis Firm Launches Web Site Mindszenthy & Roberts (M&R), a Toronto-based crisis counseling firm, established a home page on the Web. The site is at http://www.mrcom.com. M&R also operates a crisis communications and management training… Continued

As former Eastern Bloc nations begin building democratic and capitalist societies, the public relations profession there is expanding, as last month’s meeting of the International Public Relations Association (IPRA) in Hungary confirmed. Showing public relations’… Continued

Kaufman Starts Asian Unit Advertising and public relations agency Henry J. Kaufman & Associates, Washington, D.C., launched an Asian Marketing unit. The group will promote products and services of U.S. companies to Asian-Americans. It also… Continued

Jefferson Buys Kessler Public affairs firm The Jefferson Group, Washington, D.C., last week announced the acquisition of Kessler & Associates, a Washington-based PR, government relations and marketing firm. Kessler’s founder and president, Rick Kessler, joins… Continued

If you are looking for ways to handle a corporate crisis–or better yet, prevent it–you may find insights in a new book from amacom. In “Corporate Self Defense,” Steve Albrecht describes a number of well-known… Continued

A major study of top corporate executives contains some troubling findings for PR executives. Several hundred top brass–including CEOs–believe their corporations’ communications efforts are having limited effect, according to the research conducted for the American… Continued

With the PR agency business booming, many firm owners are deciding that the time is right to sell. While buyers often are looking at a purchase as a way to add new capabilities or snag… Continued

David MacKay was appointed a senior managing director in Hill and Knowlton’s Washington, D.C. office. He was a vice president and group leader in Ketchum Public Relations’ D.C. office. In the same office, Linda Taira,… Continued

Thomas Buckmaster left Fleishman-Hillard’s (F-H) Washington, D.C. office to become the new general manager of Hill and Knowlton’s (H&K) Washington office. Buckmaster also takes the title of chairman of public affairs for H&K. Buckmaster was… Continued

Richard Funess joined Ruder Finn, New York, as managing director of Ruder Finn/Americas. Prior to joining Ruder–ranked among the world’s 15 largest firms–he was president of the Americas unit of top-ten global PR firm Manning… Continued