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PROFILES OF TOP INDEPENDENT PR FIRMS
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BUTLER
ASSOCIATES, LLC
204 East 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
212/685-4600
TButler@ButlerAssociates.com
www.ButlerAssociates.com
Thomas P. Butler, President
Stuart E. Miller, Senior Vice
President
Butler Associates represents a
prestigious roster of clients in
the environmental, energy and
public affairs sectors. In 2008
O’Dwyers named the firm the
2nd fastest growing independent
PR agency and for 2010, the
firm’s Environmental and
Public Affairs practice has
expanded to become the 21st
largest in the U.S.
The firm manages public
awareness and media campaigns
on the local, state and national
level. Some of the firm’s
unique practice groups include:
Energy & Sustainability; First
Responders; and Political
Campaigns.
With a senior management
team possessing over 50 years
industry experience, Butler
Associates manages and directs
media, editorial page, and educational
campaigns and successful
coalition and stakeholder
development efforts.
Our programs have included
successful shareowner proxy
campaigns at a Fortune 100
firm; launching the first public
awareness campaigns explaining
the dangers of the gasoline
additive MTBE; illustrating the
plight of first responders who
worked at the World Trade
Center site; and directing communications
for a major city
mayoral campaign.
CATAPULT PR-IR
6560 Gunpark Dr., Suite C
Boulder, CO 80301
303/581-7760
Toll Free: 877/700-7760
www.catapultpr-ir.com
Guy Murrel, Terri Douglas,
Principals
Ranked the leading technology
PR agency in Colorado, Catapult
PR-IR provides clients with an
entire spectrum of strategic public
and investor relations services
exclusively for high-technology
companies. Services include positioning
and messaging; writing,
aggressive media and industry analyst
relations.
In addition to traditional PR,
Catapult has introduced Rich Media
Webcasting services that help companies
transcend their communications
beyond the written word to
Web-based multi-media that
includes audio, video and graphic
content. Catapult can quickly and
easily capture presentations, including
product launches, employee
communications, executive briefings
and virtual press tours.
Catapult’s rich media services
offer another dimension of “humanized”
communications to the traditional
PR/IR mix.
Catapult’s personal and professional
service, along with partnerlevel
account engagement and strategy,
makes it the preferred agency
for substantial PR results.
COONEY/WATERS
GROUP
90 Fifth Avenue, Suite 800
New York, NY 10011
212/886-2200
www.cooneywaters.com
www.alembichealth.com
Lenore Cooney, Chairman
Cooney/Waters Group, ranked
among the top independent health
care agencies in the U.S., is a midsized
firm that provides the full
range of public relations and public
affairs services to healthcare, pharmaceutical
and biotechnology
enterprises in the non-profit, government,
academic and industrial
sectors throughout the world.
Headquartered in New York,
Cooney/Waters is focused exclusively
in health and science across
many therapeutic areas and health
industries, and provides all clients,
regardless of size, direct involvement
of a long-tenured senior team.
Alembic Health Communications
(www.alembichealth.com), a wholly
owned subsidiary of
Cooney/Waters, specializes in communications
programs for clients in
the area of health advocacy.
COOPERKATZ &
COMPANY, INC.
205 Lexington Avenue., 5th Flr.
New York, NY 10016
917/595-3030
Fax: 917/326-8997
www.cooperkatz.com
Andy Cooper, Principal
Ralph Katz, Principal
Anne Green, President and COO
CooperKatz is an independent
marketing/public relations firm
with strong strategic and creative
credentials. Headquartered in
Manhattan, CooperKatz provides
the professionalism, strategic thinking
and experience of a large global
agency, but operates with the
nimbleness, hands-on client focus
and results orientation of a midsize
firm. Capabilities are organized
under three resource areas:
Public Relations: Creating corporate,
marketing and public affairs
campaigns.
Cogence: Leveraging consumergenerated
and social media channels.
CooperKatz Productions:
Producing meetings, events and
multi-media creative elements.
COYNE PR
14 Walsh Drive
Parsippany, NJ 07054
973/316-1665
www.coynepr.com
1065 Avenue of the Americas
28th Floor
New York, NY 10018
212/938-0166
Thomas F. Coyne, CEO
Rich Lukis, President
Dave Carter, Kelly Dencker, John
Gogarty, Tim Schramm, SVPs
Dr. Norman Booth, D. Litt, Chris
Brienza, Wayne Catan, Joe
Gargiulo, Jennifer Kamienski,
Kevin Lamb, Melissa McAllister,
Brian Murphy, Sue Murphy,
Geoffrey Phelps, Deborah
Sierchio, Lisa Wolleon, VPs
Coyne Public Relations is a leading
independent public relations
agency, representing some of the
world’s most well-known brands in
categories including Automotive,
Beauty & Fashion, Food &
Beverage, Health Care, Nutrition &
Wellness, Pet Products, Retail &
Restaurant, Sports, Technology,
Toys & Juvenile Products and
Travel. From traditional to social
media, we combine strategy and
creativity to generate the best possible
results for our clients — taking
each and every client exactly where
they want to be, and beyond.
Coyne PR specializes in a range
of services, including brand building,
product launches, events &
promotions, sponsorship activation,
corporate communications,
cause marketing, social media, corporate
social responsibility and crisis
management. Named PRWeek’s
2009 Midsize Agency of the Year,
Coyne PR boasts an employee
retention rate of 98 percent, an
internal digital design studio to support
our clients’ needs and always
provides a best team approach to
every account.
CROSBY
MARKETING
COMMUNICATIONS
705 Melvin Avenue
Annapolis, MD 21401
410/626-0805
www.crosbymarketing.com
Raymond Crosby, President
Since 1973, Crosby has developed
integrated communications
programs that help clients make
powerful connections with their
customers, constituents and communities.
The firm’s award-winning campaigns
have touched the lives of virtually
every American
— influencing opinions, changing
behaviors and inspiring actions that
matter.
The Crosby team includes 50
professionals with specialized practices
in Healthcare, Senior Living,
Federal Government and Social
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