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At Taylor, every account team like the MasterCard oneabove is managed by an agency principal (average tenure:15 years). Each person on the team, including a dedicatedresearcher, has been selected for their insight and intensityand because they reflect the brand’s target audience.SCHWARTZCOMMUNICATIONSProspect Place230 Third Ave.Waltham, MA 02451781/684-0770Fax: 781/684-6500www.schwartz-pr.comFounded in 1990 by the husbandand wife team of Steve andPaula Mae Schwartz, SchwartzCommunications is one of thenation’s leading public relationsagencies focused on high-tech,medical technology and biotechnologycompanies. The agencyhas more than 200 employees inits Boston, San Francisco andStockholm offices. SchwartzCommunications has garneredmany honors and was namedthree times to the Inc. 500 list ofthe fastest-growing private companies.Schwartz offers itsroughly 190 clients a full spectrumof services, including PRstrategy and branding, mediarelations, analyst relations, speaking,crisis communications, governmentrelations and podcasting.Profiles of Top Independent PR FirmsSHELTON GROUPThree Lincoln Center5430 LBJ Freeway, Suite 280Dallas, TX 75240972/239-5119Fax: 972/239-2292pr@sheltongroup.comwww.sheltongroup.comShelton Group is a full-service,strategic IR and PR agency providingcustomized programs and servicesto public and private companiesacross multiple industries. Foundedin 1994, Shelton Group offers a teamof professionals with diverse backgroundsthat uniquely blend businessacumen with creativity to deliver thehighest quality of service. Applyingan integrated approach to corporatecommunications, Shelton Groupdelivers a company’s unified story toall targeted audiences. Due to a dedicationto value-added service andthrough a national network of keystrategic relationships, SheltonGroup has built a trusted reputationwith the media, industry experts andthe financial community that producesimmediate results for emergingand established companies. Withoffices in Texas, California andTaiwan, Shelton Group is also a partnerfirm of Public RelationsOrganization International (PROI),which provides access to more than50 offices worldwide.SLOANE AND CO.7 Times Square, 17th FloorNew York, NY 10036www.sloanepr.comElliot Sloane, CEODarren Brandt, Whit Clay &Anton Nicholas, MDsSloane & Co. is a financial PRfirm located at Times Square Towerin Manhattan.With a specialization in corporateand financial media relations, IR,and crisis counseling, Sloane representssome of the most respectedpublic and private financial institutionsand trade associations in NewYork and across the globe.Leveraging skills nurtured at theworld’s biggest agencies, Sloaneoffers its clients hands-on seniormanagement attention in an entrepreneurialenvironment.Sloane prides itself on learning itsclients’ businesses from the insideout, forming strong, meaningfulpartnerships with management helpingto sharp clients’ core positioningto key constituencies that includethe investment community, financialmedia, trade, consumer, andemployees.Sloane’s client list includes AIGFinancial Products, BearingPoint,Cablevision, LG Philips, Medtronic,New York Life, and TiVO.SPECTRUM SCIENCECOMMUNICATIONS2000 K. St., N.W., 2nd Flr.,Washington, D.C. 20006202/955-6222www.spectrumscience.comSpectrum Science Comms. specializesin communications forhealthcare products, issues and missions.Founded 11 years ago andindependently owned, Spectrum’sservices include product marketing,advocacy relations, PA, interactivecommunications and creative services.Spectrum achieves consumer andtrade communications goals fasterby quickly understanding and translatingcomplex medical issues andworking more efficiently with advocacygroups and consumer and tradehealth media.Spectrum conducts programs on aregional, national and internationalscale and is a founding partner inGLOBALHealthPR, an internationalgroup of independently ownedagencies.Clients include Genentech,Organon, Pfizer, KingPharmaceuticals, American DiabetesAssn. and the Kennedy KriegerInstitute.SPRING, O’BRIEN& COMPANY50 W. 23rd St., Floor 11New York, New York 10010212/620-7100Fax: 212/620-7166flair@spring-obrien.comwww.spring-obrien.comSpring, O’Brien has consistentlyachieved success for its clientsthrough strategic communications.International in scope, grassroots inorientation, the agency has a flair forcreating business opportunities forits clients, leveraging integratedmarketing plans, enhancing brandimage and building long-term partnerrelationships. Its work is distinguishedby senior-level accountservice, extensive experience bothin journalism and marketing, plusin-depth knowledge of its core serviceareas: travel & destination marketingand business-to-business(real estate, economic development,technology and financial services).S&S | PR100 Village Green, #200Lincolnshire, IL 60069800/287-2279Fax: 847/955-7720www.sspr.comFrom Business Week to Brides,Progressive Grocer to PC Magazine,the New York Times to the NapaValley Register, CNN to CNBC,SS|PR gets oceans of ink for itsclients. Since 1978, SS|PR has beena leader in media and investor relations,trade show support, analysttours, writing services, crisis management—allthe disciplines youneed to stay visible and favorablypositioned. Our uniquely targetedapproach, combined with our extensivemedia relationships, generatesmaximum exposure and bankableresults. SS|PR specializes in hightechand franchise clients of all kindsplus general business, consumergoods, food, financial and healthcarefirms.TAYLOR14 Penn Plaza, Suite # 610New York, NY 10122212/714-1280Fax: 212/ 695-5685info@taylorpr.comwww.taylorpr.comTony Signore, CEO & Mng. PartnerBryan Harris, Mark Beal, John44MAY 2007 • WWW.ODWYERPR.COM