Pizza Hut is playing defense after a cold-hearted memo making demands of minimum-wage employees who were caught in Hurricane Irma became public. Expect Pizza Hut to offer a lot of free pizza to first responders as a result.

I will be joining fellow presenters Dawn Doty, Jane Dvorak, Matt Moseley, Marie Logsden, Matt West, Taylor Lobato and others at the 2017 PRSA Colorado Professional Development Summit. Register today.

dovetail solutions has promoted Marissa Hoffman to Director of Client Services and Lea Gralewski to Client Services Associate. Hoffman has been with the firm for five years, and Gralewski for four years. dovetail also announced that it has added clients Fortis Law Partners, Loveland Strategic Partnership, Redbarre and Spectrum Search Partners.

CenterTable, GroundFloor Media’s sister digital agency, announced it has acquired FourthWall Productions, adding to the suite of video services the agency offers in-house. CenterTable began working with FourthWall three years ago as strategic partners, and they have jointly worked on client projects involving video production and editing, animation and motion media, and live video streaming.

The firms also announced that they have added three new team members:

• Elise Bishop as Director of Communications at GroundFloor Media. Elise was most recently a communications specialist at DanoneWave (formerly WhiteWave Foods).
• Adrienne Schafer as Director of Social Media and Digital Strategy at CenterTable. Schafer joined CenterTable from Twitter, where she was an instructional designer.
• Shelbi Warner as Director of Finance for both agencies. Prior to joining GFM, Shelbi served as controller for Novarus Capital Group.

Linhart PR has added Miranda King as digital media strategist and Samantha Harris as an account associate. King was most recently social media manager at Door to Door Organics, and Harris started at Linhart PR earlier this year as an intern. Additionally, Linhart PR also recently promoted Libby Pinkerton and Emily Rado to the position of account executive. They both were previously account associates, and both started at the firm as interns.

COHN Marketing is getting into the marijuana marketing business in a big way with the launch of a specialty division, COHNNABIS, and the addition of former deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association Taylor West. From COHN:

Since Colorado began legal sales of adult-use cannabis in 2014, COHN has supported the brand, digital, marketing, packaging, social media and PR needs of dispensaries, products, venture capital backed start-ups, and allied companies that sell to the industry.

In support of the agency’s dedication to the industry, COHNNABIS has hired Taylor West, former deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, as senior communications director. By adding West’s cannabis industry insight and in-depth strategic communications experience to COHN’s long-established and respected expertise in integrated marketing, COHNNABIS is setting a new standard for companies serious about building a compelling, effective, and authentic brand within the industry.