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<strong>PR</strong>OFILES OF TOP INDEPENDENT <strong>PR</strong> FIRMS<br />
The J Public Relations Inc. team has extensive experience creating<br />
memorable <strong>PR</strong> campaigns in the lifestyle, hospitality and travel industry<br />
for emerging and established brands alike. Some of the San Diego team<br />
(from left to right) includes Jennifer Roche, Lauren Clifford, Jessica<br />
Smith, Katherine Randall, Jamie Lynn Sigler and Kim Julin Guyader.<br />
Photo: Brevin Blach.<br />
HOPE-BECKHAM<br />
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all types of events — mobile<br />
tours, product/service launches.<br />
If you can dream it, Hope-<br />
Beckham can make it a reality!<br />
Hope-Beckham is dedicated to<br />
being flexible and cooperative.<br />
There is no single best way to<br />
market a <strong>com</strong>pany, product or<br />
service, but a variety of creative<br />
options to consider.<br />
HUNTER PUBLIC<br />
RELATIONS<br />
41 Madison Avenue, 5th Floor<br />
New York, NY 10010-2202<br />
212/679-6600<br />
agonzalez@hunterpr.<strong>com</strong><br />
www.hunterpr.<strong>com</strong><br />
Grace Leong, Jonathan Lyon,<br />
Claire Burke, Mark Newman,<br />
Partners<br />
Hunter Public Relations is a certified<br />
woman owned top-ranked<br />
marketing <strong>com</strong>munication firm<br />
specializing in consumer brands<br />
and lifestyle public relations.<br />
The 65-person, independently<br />
owned and operated firm has been<br />
around for 21 years and offers<br />
strategic marketing <strong>PR</strong> services<br />
including creative brainstorming<br />
and facilitation, traditional and<br />
social media relations, special event<br />
production, product introductions,<br />
anniversaries, contests, local market<br />
events, spokesperson tours and crisis<br />
counseling.<br />
Revitalizing mature brands, creating<br />
buzz around new products and<br />
building awareness among key<br />
influencer groups are among the<br />
firm’s specific areas of expertise.<br />
Clients include some of the<br />
strongest and most respected consumer<br />
brand names including Kraft<br />
Foods, Johnson & Johnson, E&J<br />
Gallo Winery, Diageo, Kellogg’s,<br />
Campbell’s, Wrigley, Arby’s, 3M,<br />
Church & Dwight, McIlhenny<br />
Company and Hasbro.<br />
J PUBLIC<br />
RELATIONS<br />
666 Greenwich Street, Suite 222<br />
New York, NY 10014<br />
646/414-2482<br />
www.jpublicrelations.<strong>com</strong><br />
Twitter: @jprpublicity<br />
1125 W. Olive St., Suite C<br />
San Diego, CA 92103<br />
619/255-7069<br />
Kim Guyade, Jamie Sigler,<br />
Founding Partners<br />
Sarah Evans, Managing Partner,<br />
New York<br />
J Public Relations (J<strong>PR</strong>) is a<br />
savvy, connected and proven hospitality<br />
and lifestyle-focused<br />
agency <strong>com</strong>mitted to providing A-<br />
list results and services for the best<br />
value. With offices on both coasts,<br />
in San Diego and New York City,<br />
J<strong>PR</strong> currently represents noteworthy<br />
clients, including W San<br />
Diego, The Chanler, The US<br />
Grant, Fluxx, Pure Entertainment<br />
Group, White Barn Inn, Stingaree<br />
and JC Resort’s Rancho Bernardo<br />
Inn and Surf & Sand Resort to<br />
name a few.<br />
J<strong>PR</strong>’s award-winning team is<br />
focused on securing noteworthy<br />
results for global clients in top local,<br />
regional and national publications<br />
and creating a “buzz” among<br />
media, influencers and industry<br />
insiders. Our clear strategy is based<br />
on clients’ goals, “wish list” and<br />
revenue-driving markets and verticals.<br />
Our solid and long-standing relationships<br />
with top journalists and<br />
freelancers nationwide, coupled<br />
with our world-class experience,<br />
have granted us trustworthy access<br />
to the right journalists at the right<br />
publications. We are a resource for<br />
national journalists working on consumer,<br />
design, food and beverage,<br />
trade, business and lifestyle articles,<br />
as well as journalists in key regional<br />
markets.<br />
JARRARD PHILLIPS<br />
CATE & HANCOCK<br />
The Horse Barn at Maryland Farms<br />
219 Ward Circle, Suite 3<br />
Brentwood, TN 37027<br />
615/254-0575<br />
Fax: 615/843-8431<br />
jatwell@jarrardinc.<strong>com</strong><br />
www.jarrardinc.<strong>com</strong><br />
Jarrard Phillips Cate &<br />
Hancock is a national healthcare<br />
public affairs firm that<br />
helps leaders of hospitals and<br />
healthcare organizations navigate<br />
<strong>com</strong>munications and political<br />
challenges during times of<br />
significant change or extraordinary<br />
opportunity. Reputation<br />
and issue management, union<br />
and regulatory entanglements,<br />
mergers and acquisitions and<br />
more. For more than a decade<br />
our professionals have delivered<br />
the intensity, smarts and<br />
discipline of winning political<br />
campaigns to the healthcare<br />
arena.<br />
JONES PUBLIC<br />
AFFAIRS<br />
1420 K Street, N.W., Suite 1050<br />
Washington, DC 20005<br />
202/591-4000<br />
Fax: 202/591-4020<br />
carrie@jonespa.<strong>com</strong><br />
www.jonespublicaffairs.<strong>com</strong><br />
Carrie Jones, Principal &<br />
Managing Director<br />
Berna Diehl, Senior VP<br />
Kathy Wahlbin, Senior VP<br />
Jennifer Rodriguez, VP<br />
Jones Public Affairs is a<br />
D.C.-based firm, specializing in<br />
healthcare <strong>com</strong>munications for<br />
non-profit, pharmaceutical and<br />
government clients. As leaders<br />
in influencer relations, JPA uses<br />
a targeted approach to reach the<br />
stakeholders who drive change.<br />
JPA is a woman-owned agency<br />
with a track record for designing<br />
and implementing strategic,<br />
results-focused campaigns.<br />
JPA offers big agency results<br />
balanced with small-firm attention.<br />
Comprised of seasoned<br />
<strong>com</strong>munications specialists,<br />
JPA offers tailored account<br />
teams with an extensive background<br />
in the five domains for<br />
successful healthcare <strong>com</strong>munications:<br />
media, advocacy, policy<br />
makers, key opinion leaders<br />
and social media.<br />
At JPA, we are passionate<br />
about our work, always striving<br />
to exceed expectations. In addition<br />
to providing strategic counsel,<br />
professional execution and<br />
detailed and attentive client<br />
service, quality and efficiency<br />
are always top of mind and<br />
never sacrificed.<br />
JS2<br />
COMMUNICATIONS<br />
661 N. Harper Ave., Suite 208<br />
Los Angeles, CA 90048<br />
323/866-0880<br />
41 E. 11th St., 11th Floor<br />
New York, NY 10003<br />
212/905-6261<br />
www.js2<strong>com</strong>m.<strong>com</strong><br />
Founded by Jeff Smith and<br />
Jill Sandin in 2001, JS2<br />
Communications is a bi-coastal<br />
public relations agency dedicated<br />
to providing clients with<br />
strategic solutions, candid<br />
counsel and tangible results.<br />
Comprised of a dynamic group<br />
of seasoned professionals, the<br />
JS2 team is passionate about its<br />
relationships with its clients<br />
and its partnerships with the<br />
teams that build them.<br />
The executive team has more<br />
than 60 years <strong>com</strong>bined experience<br />
in <strong>PR</strong> and clients have<br />
called JS2 employees energetic,<br />
resourceful, inspiring, efficient,<br />
thorough, well-prepared, accurate,<br />
smart, eager, experienced,<br />
consistent, ambitious, savvy,<br />
fluid, flexible, friendly, reliable<br />
and passionate.<br />
A true full-service <strong>PR</strong><br />
agency, JS2 Communications<br />
offers a breadth of capabilities<br />
for its clients, including proactive<br />
and reactive media relations,<br />
social media strategy and<br />
execution, executive visibility,<br />
marketing support, media measurement,<br />
celebrity seeding,<br />
events and crisis management.<br />
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