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As Western corporations eye the vast and quickly growing Chinese market, PR practitioners charged with executing programs there quickly find that they have much to learn. Insights into what professionals should watch out for there… Continued

Blockbuster Entertainment Group, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., named Jonathan Baskin as senior vice president, corporate relations. He was director of communications for The Limited Inc.. Meredith Clements was named director of public relations at Philips Media… Continued

Limiting the damage for a crisis--or better yet preventing one, is the thrust of a new book by training executive and former police officer Steve Albrecht. In "Corporate Self-Defense: How to Protect your Organization in… Continued

Cynthia Hudson joined Burson-Marsteller, Washington, D.C., as managing director in the firm's public affairs group. She was a principal at the Sawyer Miller/Robinson Lerer Montgomery Group, Washington. Wendy Nichols was promoted to manager of consumer… Continued

Ad/PR agency Ira Thomas Associates Inc., Youngstown, Ohio, has a new phone number: 330/793-3000.

Witherspoon & Associates, Fort Worth, Texas, is marking its fiftieth anniversary. Founded in 1946 as a PR firm, the company since has added advertising and marketing services. (Witherspoon, 817/335- 1373)

Omnicom Group Inc., the parent company of PR firm Porter/Novelli, purchased a 20-percent stake in high-tech PR firm A Plus Group, London. A Plus will oversee Omnicom's high-tech PR practice in Europe, working closely with… Continued

Firm Enters Interactive Fray Hadeler Sullivan Ewing (HSE), Dallas, Texas, formed an interactive division--One Zero Interactive. Jesse Collard of Dallas ad agency the Richards Group's Click Here Division joins Hadeler as director of the new… 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