May '11 PR Rankings Issue - Odwyerpr.com

ICR CEO Thomas M. Ryan.
GIBRALTAR
ASSOCIATES, LLC
815 Connecticut Ave., NW, Ste. 800
Washington, D.C. 20006
202/534-1700
202/534-1715
Fax: 202/534-1701
www.Gibraltar-llc.com
Eric Bovim, CEO & Co-Founder
GA is one of the country’s
leading public relations agencies,
representing some of the world’s
best known companies and
brands. Founded in 2007, we
practice 21st-century PR by fusing
old and new media strategies
into breakthrough campaigns for
clients.
We help our clients create and
capitalize on market opportunities,
position their business for
growth, manage challenges and
crisis situations and advocate
their passion and commitment to
a cause or issue.
With offices in Washington,
D.C., and Los Angeles, GA is led
by seasoned, senior practitioners
with award-winning experience
in communications, politics,
media, finance, marketing, policy-making
and management.
The hallmark of a GA campaign
is our innovative approach
to shaping and delivering content
to tell our clients stories. Our
campaigns and programs build
trust, engage stakeholders and
rally public sentiment for our
clients’ brands, their companies
and issues that matter to them.
Our core value proposition is
driving results that can be meas-
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PROFILES OF TOP INDEPENDENT PR FIRMS
ured and monetized against business
and policy objectives.
GIBBS & SOELL,
INC.
60 E. 42nd St., 44th Flr.
New York, NY 10165
212/697-2600
Fax: 212/697-2646
www.gibbs-soell.com
2800 W. Higgins Rd., #730
Hoffman Estates, IL 60169
847/519-9150
Fax: 847/519-1877
Cos Mallozzi, CEO
Luke Lambert, President
Celebrating its 40th anniversary
in business, Gibbs & Soell,
Inc. (G&S) is a leading independent
public relations firm
with headquarters in New York,
full-service offices in Chicago,
Raleigh, N.C. and Zurich,
Switzerland, and a global presence
in nearly 40 countries
through its affiliate network.
We apply our strengths in
strategic planning and counsel
to help clients solve business
challenges in key sectors:
advanced manufacturing and
energy, agribusiness and food,
building solutions, consumer
lifestyle, greentech and sustainability,
professional services,
and technology and general science.
The G&S service portfolio
includes corporate communications,
marketing communications,
event marketing / management,
employee communications,
leadership positioning,
digital/social media, communications
training, and communications
research and evaluation.
Partial client roster:
American Society of Home
Inspectors, BenQ, CraftMaster
Manufacturing, Commonfund,
Dow Advanced Materials, Dow
Chemical Company, Ernst &
Young-Midwest Entrepreneur of
the Year Award Program,
Firestone Building Products,
Investment Program
Association, HEAD USA,
Honeywell, Million Dollar
Round Table, Mitsubishi
Electric Automation, National
Elevator Industry, Inc., Novartis
Animal Health, Panasonic
Home & Environment
Company, Ply Gem, Schindler
Elevator, Syngenta, The Sulfur
Institute, Unified Hardwood
Promotion, United States Tennis
Association and Wenger/Swiss
Army.
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GYMR, LLC
(GETTING YOUR
MESSAGE RIGHT)
1825 Connecticut Ave., N.W.,
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20009-5708
202/745-5100
Fax: 202/234-6159
www.gymr.com
Pattie Yu, Patrick J. McCabe,
Sharon M. Reis, Partners
Karen Waller, Becky Watt
Knight, Leslie Brenowtiz, SVPs
Virginia Bader, Michael Warner,
VPs
Susan Levine, Senior Counselor
GYMR is a Washington, D.C.
based public relations agency
that provides health/healthcare
clients with strategic communications
that capitalize on the
dynamics unique to
Washington. GYMR's unique
strength is the background of its
team — government, advocacy,
associations, foundations, corporations
and nonprofit organizations
— who execute strategies
that include image and
alliance building, public education
campaigns or media relations
to harness the formidable
forces of Washington and produce
successful results for
clients. The agency has counseled
a wide range of clients,
including trade associations,
health voluntary organizations,
coalitions, foundations, corporations,
federal and state agencies
and nonprofit groups.
Clients: AdvaMed, American
Academy of Family Physicians,
American Board of Internal
Medicine, American Psychiatric
Association, American College
of Neuropsychopharmacology,
American Society of
Nephrology, America’s Promise,
Atlantic Philanthropies, Avalere
Health, Bravewell
Collaborative, Bristol Myers
Squibb, Campaign For Tobacco-
Free Kids, Digestive Disease
Week, MacArthur Foundation,
Markle Foundation, National
Association of Public Hospitals,
National Institutes of Health,
Pew Foundation, Pfizer,
Research!America, Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation,
Society for Healthcare
Epidemiology of America, The
Michael J. Fox Foundation for
Parkinson’s Research, The
Vision Council, and University
of California at San Diego.
HAGER SHARP
1030 15th Street, N.W., Ste. 600E
Washington, D.C. 20005
202/842-3600
Fax: 202/842-4032
www.hagersharp.com
Garry Curtis, President & CEO
Founded in 1973 and based in
Washington, D.C., Hager Sharp is
an award-winning, independent,
employee-owned firm, with a
broad range of experience in education,
health, and public safety
issues. The firm’s strengths
include: national public awareness
campaigns and social marketing
programs that make a difference
in people’s lives, partnerships
that leverage our clients’
audience reach and engagement,
media relations — from crisis
management to targeting messages
to just-the right audiences
through media placements and
multicultural outreach, including
partnership development and
media relations.
Clients include National
Institutes of Health, U.S.
Department of Education, U.S.
Department of Homeland
Security, U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services and
the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
ICR
761 Main Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06851
203/682-8200
Fax: 203-682-8201
www.icrinc.com
Thomas M. Ryan, CEO, Co-
Founder
Don Duffy, President
ICR is a privately owned, 88
employee, strategic communications
firm specializing in investor
and media relations, corporate
communications, crisis management,
and digital media. The firm,
headquartered in Connecticut with
offices in New York, Boston, Los
Angeles, San Francisco and
Beijing, was ranked by O’Dwyers
as the largest independent financial
communications firm in the
nation in 2010.
With approximately 300 clients,
ICR offers senior counsel in more
than 20 industry verticals, and its
competitive advantage comes
from senior-level capital-markets
experience and deep industry
knowledge. Client service stresses
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