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<strong>PR</strong>OFILES OF TOP INDEPENDENT <strong>PR</strong> FIRMS<br />
Hunter <strong>PR</strong> has been an independently owned firm for 21 years, which<br />
allows us the flexibility to take on pro bono clients that appeal to our<br />
staff’s interest and experience. Hunter <strong>PR</strong> has worked with the New<br />
York City Clothing Bank for three years. This March staffers passed<br />
around flowers on the first day of spring to help raise awareness and<br />
funding for the organization. Hunter <strong>PR</strong> encouraged people to<br />
be<strong>com</strong>e a Facebook fan of Hunter <strong>PR</strong> and for every new fan through<br />
the end of March we donated money to the organization.<br />
GIBBS & SOELL,<br />
INC.<br />
60 E. 42nd St., 44th Flr.<br />
New York, NY 10165<br />
212/697-2600<br />
Fax: 212/697-2646<br />
www.gibbs-soell.<strong>com</strong><br />
Cos Mallozzi, CEO<br />
Luke Lambert, Pres. & Mng. Dir.<br />
Founded in 1971, Gibbs &<br />
Soell Public Relations (G&S) is<br />
a leading global independent<br />
public relations firm with headquarters<br />
in New York, full-service<br />
offices in Chicago, Raleigh,<br />
N.C. and Zurich, Switzerland,<br />
and a global footprint in more<br />
than 30 countries through affiliate<br />
partners and its membership<br />
in Public Relations Organisation<br />
International. Solving our<br />
clients’ business challenges<br />
drives everything we do. Our<br />
passion for excellence, <strong>com</strong>bined<br />
with an innovative, diligent<br />
approach to problem solving,<br />
delivers value-driven<br />
results. We blend strategic planning<br />
and counsel, creativity,<br />
quality writing and professional<br />
media relations with deep industry<br />
knowledge to the daily benefit<br />
of our clients’ businesses.<br />
Gibbs & Soell is not all things to<br />
all people. While we have broad<br />
experience in a number of industries,<br />
we focus our expertise in<br />
core markets where we deliver<br />
effective, value-driven <strong>com</strong>munications<br />
programs that build on<br />
our experience, knowledge and<br />
leadership. Those markets<br />
include advanced manufacturing<br />
and energy; agribusiness and<br />
food; consumer lifestyle and<br />
building solutions; professional<br />
services; and technology and<br />
general science. In these industries,<br />
we understand the issues<br />
and challenges you face in conducting<br />
business, as well as the<br />
critical importance of customer<br />
relationships and the rapidly<br />
changing dynamics of the marketplace.<br />
We apply our strengths<br />
to help you market products and<br />
services, build strong brands,<br />
manage issues and grow key<br />
relationships. In short, the success<br />
of your business is at the<br />
heart of what we do. G&S’ service<br />
portfolio includes corporate<br />
<strong>com</strong>munications; marketing<br />
<strong>com</strong>munications; event marketing<br />
/ management; employee<br />
<strong>com</strong>munications; leadership<br />
positioning; digital and social<br />
media <strong>com</strong>munications, <strong>com</strong>munications<br />
training and <strong>com</strong>munications<br />
research and evaluation.<br />
Partial client listing: ACC /<br />
Center for the Polyurethanes<br />
Industry, ACC / CyberSecurity,<br />
Alsons, American Society of<br />
Home Inspectors, American<br />
Woodmark Corporation,<br />
Association of Pool and Spa<br />
Professionals, Big Ass Fans,<br />
Carter Ledyard & Milburn,<br />
CraftMaster Manufacturing,<br />
Dow Chemical Company,<br />
Dupont Performance<br />
Elastomers, ERA Real Estate,<br />
Firestone Building Products,<br />
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper &<br />
Scinto, GE Rail Services,<br />
Georgia-Pacific, Honeywell,<br />
Kaldewei, Kitchen Cabinet<br />
Manufacturers Association,<br />
Miele USA, Million Dollar<br />
Round Table, Molex, National<br />
Elevator Industry, Inc., Novartis<br />
Animal Health, Oberweis<br />
Securities, Panasonic Home &<br />
Environment Company, Ply<br />
Gem Industries, RSC Equipment<br />
Rental, Schindler Elevator,<br />
Seward & Kissel, Stryker,<br />
Syngenta, Trade Commission of<br />
Spain, Tridion Inc., Trustmark<br />
Insurance<br />
GIBRALTAR<br />
ASSOCIATES<br />
815 Connecticut Ave., NW, Ste. 800<br />
Washington, DC 20006<br />
202/534-1700<br />
202/534-1715<br />
Fax: 202/534-1701<br />
www.Gibraltar-llc.<strong>com</strong><br />
Founded in 2007, Gibraltar<br />
Associates is an agency with a mission:<br />
We believe that great <strong>com</strong>munications<br />
begins with an idea, and<br />
great ideas can transform businesses,<br />
industries and policies and the<br />
world.<br />
With offices in Washington,<br />
D.C. and Los Angeles and a professional<br />
staff of 15, Gibraltar<br />
Associates is an award-winning<br />
<strong>com</strong>munications firm, one of the<br />
fastest-growing <strong>com</strong>munications<br />
agencies in the country and one of<br />
the top 100 independently-owned<br />
agencies in the United States. We<br />
represent leaders across various<br />
industries, including start-ups, government<br />
agencies, trade associations,<br />
NGOs and the Fortune 500.<br />
Fluent in traditional <strong>com</strong>munications,<br />
public affairs and media relations,<br />
Gibraltar Associates is also a<br />
leader in Web-based <strong>com</strong>munications<br />
and social media. Taking<br />
advantage of both traditional and<br />
emerging <strong>com</strong>munications platforms,<br />
we blend diverse consulting<br />
genres to offer clients a truly holistic<br />
approach to solving challenges,<br />
providing world-class <strong>com</strong>munications<br />
counsel to clients and implementing<br />
those ideas to produce tangible<br />
business results.<br />
HAGER SHARP<br />
1090 Vermont Avenue, NW<br />
Washington, DC 20005<br />
202/842-3600<br />
Fax: 202/842-4032<br />
www.hagersharp.<strong>com</strong><br />
Garry Curtis, President & CEO<br />
Founded in 1973 and based in<br />
Washington, D.C., Hager Sharp<br />
is an award-winning, independent,<br />
employee-owned firm, with<br />
a broad range of experience in<br />
education, health, and public<br />
safety issues. The firm’s<br />
strengths include: national public<br />
awareness campaigns and<br />
social marketing programs that<br />
make a difference in people’s<br />
lives, partnerships that leverage<br />
our clients’ audience reach and<br />
engagement, media relations —<br />
from crisis management to targeting<br />
messages to just-the right<br />
audiences through media placements<br />
and multicultural outreach,<br />
including partnership<br />
development and media relations.<br />
Clients include National<br />
Institutes of Health, U.S.<br />
Department of Education, U.S.<br />
Department of Homeland<br />
Security, U.S. Department of<br />
Health and Human Services and<br />
the Annie E. Casey Foundation.<br />
HOPE-BECKHAM,<br />
INC.<br />
17 Executive Park Dr., Ste. 600<br />
Atlanta, GA 30329<br />
404/604-2613<br />
dvanvoorhis@hopebeckham.<strong>com</strong><br />
www.hopebeckham.<strong>com</strong><br />
David C. Van Voorhis, Dir.<br />
Business Dev./Client Rels.<br />
What separates Hope-Beckham<br />
from other <strong>PR</strong> agencies<br />
It is a hybrid … providing public<br />
relations and event marketing<br />
services to a wide range of<br />
clients.<br />
Hope-Beckham’s ability to<br />
utilize traditional and non-traditional<br />
tactics in both fields<br />
allows clients to reach their audiences<br />
in a variety of cost-effective<br />
approaches.<br />
Hope-Beckham’s experienced<br />
staff has the ability to implement<br />
<strong>com</strong>plex public relations campaigns,<br />
while maintaining the<br />
ability to professionally execute<br />
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