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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

May 13th, 1996 by

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

AGENCY REALIGNMETS

May 13th, 1996 by

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

NEW VENTURES

May 13th, 1996 by

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

CAMERA MAKER FOCUSES ON STUDENTS, PROFESSIONALS

May 13th, 1996 by

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

UPCOMING EVENT:

May 13th, 1996 by

May 15: Public Affairs Council, “Coalitions & Partnerships: Strategies for Developing Relationships with Advocacy Groups,” Washington, D.C., 202/872-1790. May 15: Public Relations Society of American, “PR Tactics,” Los Angeles, 212/460-1404. May 15-16: Institute for Crisis… Continued

HONORS:

May 13th, 1996 by

The Minnesota Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America recently named three university public relations students as recipients of “Dr. Willard Thompson” scholarships based on their level of involvement in the Public Relations Student… Continued

CORPORATE GROUP PLANS WEB CLASS

May 13th, 1996 by

The Corporate section of the Public Relations Society of America has planned a full-day seminar on Web page design. The Aug. 2 session is titled “Creating a Business-to-Business Home Page.” The seminar will take place… Continued

COMMUNICATIONS DICTIONARY COMING

May 13th, 1996 by

The latest edition of Richard Weiner’s dictionary on media and communications terms will be out next month. The 688-page “Webster’s New World Dictionary of Media and Communications” will be published by Macmillan, and offered at… Continued

PR NEWSWIRE UPDATES SYSTEM

May 13th, 1996 by

PR Newswire introduced “Company News on-Call Plus,” an upgraded version of its news release database, stored online for access by journalists. The product now leaves three information sections open for companies to store quarterly report… Continued

HOW TO CRAFT AN IMAGE IN CHINA

May 13th, 1996 by

“In China, perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, building and maintaining a strong corporate image–carefully managing reputation–is critical to the achievement of virtually every company’s business purpose,” said Dian Terry, senior vice president… Continued