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Katherine Hutt, formerly director of public affairs for insurance industry coalition, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, Washington, D.C., last month launched Nautilus Communications, Vienna, Va. The firm specializes in building links between businesses and… Continued

Women Executives in Public Relations, a group including PR professionals in the New York metropolitan area, selected Valerie DiMaria, president of GCI Group/New York, as president-elect. She will take office next year upon the expiration… Continued

Burson-Marsteller, New York, on Aug. 8 announced that the firm had acquired the exclusive rights in the PR firm market for two investor relations services of Investment Data Corp., Bethesda, Md. One service is QUARRY,… Continued

The Institute for Public Relations Research and Education (IPRRE) formed a study group to address the public relations implications of the Internet–particularly the Web. Don Bates, executive vice president of Sumner Rider & Associates, New… Continued

Maier Advertising Inc., Farmington, Conn., has created a public relations division. The unit at the business-to-business and consumer marketing agency will be headed by Harry McBrien, formerly director of public relations another Connecticut ad/PR firm,… Continued

PAC (TEL’S) MAN ONLINE: CYBER DIALOGUE, CITIZENSHIP Most organizations realize that there are communities of customers, suppliers and other stakeholders spread across the Internet. Few companies, however, recognized the importance of these online groups and… Continued

Young & Rubicam, New York, the global advertising agency which owns number-one PR firm Burson-Marsteller, plans to sell a minority stake to a San Francisco investment banking firm, Hellman & Friedman, according to an Aug.… Continued

As more global corporations turn to overseas suppliers for the manufacture of products or components, the question of disparities in workplace conditions and employee pay has become a front-page issue. Soccer balls stitched by Pakistani… Continued

Ad/PR agency Poppe Tyson, a unit of Bozell, Jacobs, Kenyon & Eckhardt, disclosed last week that it has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) of $50 million. The company has entered a "quiet period,"… Continued

Multimedia tools–and new ways of delivering multimedia messages and presentations–are revolutionizing marketing. This is especially true for businesses involved in graphic design, as well as architecture and facilities design, contend Karen Brown and Curtis Charles… Continued