Orapin Marketing + Public Relations has added four new clients to its roster – Sound Relief Hearing Center, A Touch of Bliss,Inward Fitness and Greenworks Lawn and Leaf. OMPR will provide public relations strategy and counsel and will be responsible for enhancing brand awareness through media relations and expert positioning efforts for each of the small businesses. In addition, The Original Pancake House Denver has renewed its partnership with OMPR to support its social media efforts and promotional events.
Category: Wins
104 West Adds Two Clients
104 West has added FlixMaster and SDL as clients. FlixMaster is the developer of an enterprise online video platform and SDL Campaign Management & Analytics works with global brands to predict what customers want and engage with them to improve customer experiences.
B Public Relations Named AOR For New Denver Hotel
B Public Relations has been named the agency of record for the new Renaissance Denver Downtown City Center. The hotel is slated to open in the historic Colorado National Bank building in downtown Denver in late 2013 or early 2014. This adds to their growing hospitality and lifestyle client list, including Denver Botanic Gardens, St Julien Hotel & Spa, Outlook Lodge, Solaris Vail, and others.
Bravo TV’s Julia Allison Selects Key Link PR
Bravo TV network star Julia Allison has selected Key Link PR’s Kirsten Texler as her new representative. Allison has made hundreds of television appearances on NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, VH1 and MTV, and is a journalist/columnist whose writing has appeared in a number of national publications, including ELLE, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, and Cosmopolitan.
Red Jeweled Media named AOR for Outlets at Castle Rock
Red Jeweled Media has been named the PR agency of record for Outlets at Castle Rock, the largest open-air outlet center in Colorado. RJM will be responsible for helping grow awareness of the mall’s exciting events and new store openings, as well as helping drive traffic to the tourist destination through strategic and creative PR and social media campaigns.
Metzger Adds Six Clients
Metzger Associates announced it has added six clients: National Association of Corporate Directors, Colorado Chapter, Kapta, First Funder, Optimum Wellness Magazine, TeamSnap, and Dirty Girl Mud Run.
These clients have contracted Metzger for a variety of services, including public relations, social media management, website development and other marketing programs.
GroundFloor Adds Non-profit Client to Roster
GroundFloor Media has added the Alliance for Early Success as a client. The agency’s digital team will provide strategic counsel, design, digital and website development services to the Alliance to create an updated website highlighting the organization’s research, policy and advocacy services, as well as to serve as an active forum for the Alliance’s grantees and grantors. GFM will also design a logo based on the organization’s new name, tagline and messaging.
Boulder’s EVOL Foods Selects Ogilvy PR
EVOL Foods, a Boulder-based maker of made-from-scratch natural and organic frozen meals and snacks, has selected Ogilvy PR as its agency partner to implement a strategic mix of consumer brand marketing initiatives including media relations, event activations and social media programming. The account will be managed out of Ogilvy’s Denver office with support from the Los Angeles team.
Turner PR Adds Five Clients
Turner PR has added five new clients: UK-based boutique hostel concept Generator Hostels, heritage equestrian footwear and apparel brand Ariat International, action sport hard goods purveyor Bern Unlimited, military-inspired watch manufacturer Ballast Time Instruments, and Italian heritage sportswear brand Kappa-USA.
GroundFloor Adds Consumer, Financial Services Clients
GroundFloor Media has added New Direction IRA as a financial services client. GFM will manage media relations and thought leadership programs to increase awareness of the company’s investment education and record-keeping services for self-directed individual retirement accounts (IRA).
GFM also has been named agency of record by 34 Degrees, makers of all-natural, wafer-thin crackers. The firm will provide strategic planning services, as well as online content development and optimization.
Jumel PR Adds Mandil as Client
Jumel Public Relations has been selected by Mandil Inc. to implement a public relations campaign to promote its color business. Mandil blends architecture, color, strategic branding and interior design for clients including home builders, marketers and architects. Jumel will focus on highlighting Mandil’s color expertise through media relations, community/industry outreach and by establishing an authentic presence for the company on LinkedIn, Facebook and Pinterest.
Fitzgerald Petersen Adds Four Clients
Fitzgerald Petersen Communications has added four new clients: Cirque du Soleil/Amaluna, 2013 Biennial of the America, Ruckus Sports and Community Financial Credit Union.
Malen Yantis Adds Four Clients
Malen Yantis Public Relations has added four clients: Destination Resorts Hawaii, Slifer Smith & Frampton, The Stanley Hotel and the Vail Ski Challenge.

Weston Snowboards Selects Key Link PR as AOR
Weston Snowboards has selected Key Link PR as agency of record. The snowboards are hand-crafted, using locally-sourced wood combined with the latest in snowboard design technology.
The Bawmann Group Lands Two Clients
The Colorado Health Insurance Cooperative has selected The Bawmann Group to build the non-profit’s brand platform, marketing strategy and website, as well as direct its earned/paid/owned media activities and grassroots community engagement efforts. CHIC has been awarded a $69 million loan by the federal government to create a statewide, member-owned health plan that will participate in Colorado’s Health Benefit Exchange.
TBG has also been engaged by Mirenda & Associates, a national philanthropic consulting firm, to revise its brand platform, website and earned/owned media efforts.
BMWA Names Philosophy AOR
The Barr-Milton Watershed Association has named Philosophy Communication as its agency of record. The nonprofit hired Philosophy to create a campaign that addresses water issues for a clean water awareness and public education outreach project. Recently BMWA received a two-year grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to develop public education messaging about clean water.
Conversation Starters Adds Two Clients
Conversation Starters Public Relations has been chosen for public relations and production support for “AAA Presents EnCompass with Dan Davis.” Sponsored by AAA Colorado, the travel-oriented show is produced by Studio D Productions and debuts Saturday January 5, at 9:30pm on Denver’s Channel 20.
Key Link PR Wins New Client
Blue Creek Productions and the nationally acclaimed Beaver Creek Children’s Theatre has named Key Link PR as its agency of record. Since 1987, Blue Creek Productions has provided a group of highly creative folks to entertain and produce events primarily directed towards the family market across the nation.
City of Littleton Names Philosophy AOR
The City of Littleton has named Philosophy Communication as its agency of record for branding, identity and messaging work.
“For more than six years Philosophy has honed its destination experience with the Town of Frisco, and now with the addition of the City of Littleton, the company is pleased to flex its community branding experience even more,” said Philosophy co-founder Jen Lester.
The Stasko Agency Adds Three Clients
The Stasko Agency has been tapped to handle all the local publicity efforts for Brown-Forman’s launch of Cinnaster, a new, cinnamon-flavored Tuaca Liqueur. Stasko was also selected by the Colorado Business Group on Health to provide publicity and public relations services for the 2013 Culture of Health Conference – the fourth conference the firm has promoted. In addition, the agency has been named Agency of Record for Circle Fresh Farms.
Philosophy Adds Social Media Client
Philosophy Communication continues to stuff its social media rolodex. They recently added U.S. Nursing Corporation/FASTAFF, LLC. Philosophy will be conducting monthly social media work to help gain more healthcare facility clients and travel nurses.
SOS Outreach Names KeylinkPR as AOR
SOS Outreach has named Key Link PR as agency of record. SOS Outreach is a non-profit youth development adventure sports program that engages at-risk students in long-term mentorship relationships to instill in them core values.
GPR Helps States With Communications About Education
Gonder Public Relations has has been retained by the National Governors Association to help educators in three states – Colorado, Kentucky and North Carolina – communicate major education initiatives.
Colorado Proud Names Philosophy as AOR
Colorado Proud has hired Philosophy Communication as its agency of record. Philosophy’s “Choose Colorado” campaign will focus on increasing state-wide awareness about Colorado Proud and its members. The campaign will also encourage Coloradans to purchase local whenever possible and promote Colorado Proud as a year-around organization. Philosophy will provide public relations, marketing, social media, event and website support.
Heinrich, Blake & Emico win Colorado Foreclosure Hotline
Colorado Foreclosure Hotline recently awarded Heinrich Marketing, in partnership with Blake Communications and Emico Media, the contract for a public awareness and marketing campaign. The Hotline provides counseling services for homeowners facing possible foreclosure.
Blake Communications Announces New Clients
Blake Communications has added several new clients, including Corner Bakery Cafe, Heinrich Marketing, Fallene Wells’ Forever Darling VI, Ambient Life Photography and Duane Wells’ Living Wells. Blake Communications works primarily with creative industry, education and nonprofit clients.
GroundFloor Adds SlimGenics as Client
GroundFloor Media has added SlimGenics as a client. The Centennial-based client will leverage GFM’s background in health, wellness and consumer brands to raise the profile of its healthy weight management and preventive health care programs. Specifically, GFM will utilize its expertise in traditional media relations, community relations, reputation management and social media to increase awareness of SlimGenics in the company’s key markets, as well as nationally.
Turner Adds Two Clients
Turner PR has added Asia Transpacific Journeys and the Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau to its roster of travel and hospitality clientele. Turner PR will provide strategic media relations for both organizations focused on increased awareness in the national media marketplace.
JW Wins Elevator Consulting Company
Elevator consulting company Lerch Bates has hired JohnstonWells to conduct public relations efforts on its behalf. Lerch Bates is headquartered in Littleton and has consulted on elevator construction and operations in many of the world’s tallest buildings.
Key Link PR Adds PZ1, ‘Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines’ Festival
Key Link PR has been named the PR agency of record for PZ1 and added the Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival in Vail, Colorado, as a client. PZ1 is a group of former Olympic Ski and Snowboard athletes who provide instructional experience through private sessions, performance clinics, custom experiences and race camps, across the nation. And the Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival is a three day event featuring educational seminars, two Brewmasters dinners, a Commercial Tasting, and a homebrew competition, all hosted by some of the most famous personalities in the craft beer industry.
OMPR Adds The Ballet Physique as Client
Orapin Marketing + Public Relations has added The Ballet Physique to its client roster. The Ballet Physique is an independent and locally-owned barre fitness studio in downtown Littleton. OMPR will consult on and execute PR and marketing activities for the studio’s first workout DVD collection, due out at the end of the year.
Allonhill Selects JW for PR Work
JohnstonWells has been hired to develop a public relations program for Allonhill, a Denver-based financial service company that provides mortgage due diligence and credit risk management services.
Bawmann Group Lands Two Clients
The Bawmann Group has been retained by medical billing management firm Pinnacle III to provide marketing strategy and services, and by Cancer Treatment Centers of America to help increase awareness about CTCA in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West via traditional and social media services.
Jumel PR Lands New Client
Jumel Public Relations has been selected by Maroon to develop a strategic plan for its online marketing and public relations activities. Maroon is a professional services consulting firm to the local digital media industry.
GroundFloor Adds Oskar Blues as Client
GroundFloor Media has added Oskar Blues as its newest client. The Longmont, Colo.-based craft beer company will leverage GFM’s background with national food and beverage brands such as Starbuck’s, Qdoba and several Coors brands to increase awareness locally, regionally and nationally about its innovation, creativity, growth and leadership.
Perini & Associates Lands Two Clients
Dental Associates of Eagles Nest and Aspen Salon and Day Spa have selected Perini & Associates for public relations, marketing and social media consulting services.
Verde Adds Boulder’s Cocona as Client
Boulder-based Cocona, a provider of rapid-dry active particle technologies, has tapped Verde PR & Consulting for public relations support. Courtney Brunkow will lead the Verde team that will focus on bringing visibility to Cocona’s innovations and outdoor industry performance apparel alliances.
Philosophy Adds Client
Philosophy Communication has added another client:
“Move over 007, Philosophy Communication adds AgentSolid, a mobile application development company, to its client roster. Philosophy will conduct brand positioning, public relations and SEO on behalf of this bad-ass mobile app company.”
Philosophy Adds Three Clients
Jen Lester and the team at Philosophy Communication report a few wins:
“Good things come in threes for Philosophy Communication. Recently, the marketing and public relations agency added: Bikes Belong, Krimson & Klover and Urban Ventures, LLC, to its client roster.”
State of Kansas Taps Bawmann Group for Campaign
The Bawmann Group just launched Love Letters from Kansas, a public education campaign on marriage and healthy relationships for the state of Kansas. The campaign will include advertising, social media, PR and an interactive website to encourage folks to sign up for classes on how to improve their relationships.
Pure Barre Selects Cohn for PR, Marketing
Denver-based Fitness company Pure Barre has selected Cohn to provide public relations and marketing services. Cohn will “leverage its expansive national media experience to help support the Pure Barre in its 2012 marketing initiatives and franchise expansion.”
Stio Selects Verde PR as AOR
Verde PR & Consulting has been named Agency of Record for Stio, a new mountain lifestyle apparel and accessories brand. Craig Randall will manage the account from Verde PR’s Boulder office.
104 West Adds Four Clients
104 West has added four clients: HomeSnap, SpotRight, willbeHired and Agencyport.
HaifleighBrandWorks, Mulligan Win Cantaloupe Contract
It turns out that it was HaifleighBrandWorks and Mulligan & Co. that snagged the $175,000 contract to restore the reputation of Colorado Cantaloupes after the listeria outbreak. Said one of the cantaloupes, “We knew Mulligan & Co. was the way we wanted to go when we saw how thoughtful Diane looked in her photo on its website.”
Monaghan Adds Several Clients
Elisabeth “Don’t Call Me Elizabeth” Monaghan has signed on as the publicist for Erika Napoletano, handling both the promotion on Napoletano’s newly released book “The Power of Unpopular,” as well as general publicity for the notoriously shy and retiring Napoletano. Additionally, Monaghan is handling publicity for “The Insider’s Guide on Egg Donation,” a book co-written by Napoletano and Wendie Wilson-Miller, owner of LA-based egg donor agency Gifted Journeys. Monaghan also signed the Morgan Adams Foundation, a Denver-based nonprofit raising funds for research on childhood cancer
B Public Relations Adds St. Julien, Outlook Lodge as Clients
B Public Relations, a Denver boutique focusing on the travel and hospitality industries, has added the St Julien Hotel & Spa in Boulder and The Outlook Lodge in Green Mountain Falls as clients.
Philosophy Adds Anne Bé as a Client
Philosophy Communication has added Anna Bé, a Denver bridal boutique, as a client. Philosophy will conduct media relations and SEO work on behalf of the company.
Dovetail Solutions Wins Three, Hires Two
dovetail solutions has added three new clients: land developer McWhinney, the Denver and Chicago offices of architecture firm HOK, and professional services company CBIZ. The firm also added Marissa Hoffman as a client services associate and Allison Rindels as an intern.
K2 Sports Selects Verde PR as AOR
K2 Sports, a leading global manufacturer of outdoor sports gear, has tapped Verde PR & Consulting as its agency of record. As part of the relationship, Verde will manage public relations for K2 Sports and its international portfolio of 16 brands and more than 40 consumer product categories.
Voca Adds Two Clients
VOCA has added Outward Bound and Aspen’s Sky Hotel/39 Degrees Lounge as clients.
Expansion Hockey Team Selects Adrenalin for Branding Work
Adrenalin has been selected by the new Denver franchise of the Central Hockey League to develop its branding and marketing
campaign. The new minor league hockey team, set to start playing at the Denver Coliseum for the 2012-13 season, is owned by an investment group headed by John A. Hayes, president and CEO of Ball Corporation.
Now is ze Time at Sprocket Vhen Ve Dance
Sprocket Communications has added Stapleton as a client. Sprocket will coordinate and execute Stapleton’s public relations campaign, focusing on residential and commercial opportunities.
Adrenalin Adds Three Clients
Adrenalin has added three clients in its push to expand into the outdoors market and leverage digital branding strategies: PMI Ropes, Schwab Cycles and Spindaroos.
J.F. Mills Adds Client
Denver-based J.F. Mills/Worldwide has been retained by sparesFinder, a London-based firm specializing in Master Data Management for asset-intensive industries. JFM/WW will support all communications functions globally as well as facilitate business development in U.S. markets.
Bellco Renews with GroundFloor Media
If you had Bellco on your client prospect list, go ahead and cross them off: the credit union has extended its contract as a client of GroundFloor Media. Under the terms of the new contract, GFM will develop strategic communications programs to enhance Bellco’s community visibility and reinforce its reputation as a strong local banking option for individuals and businesses.
Orapin Adds Restaurant Client
Orapin Marketing + Public Relations has added The Original Pancake House to its client roster. OMPR will provide PR and marketing support for the restaurant’s two Denver area locations – Cherry Hills and the Denver Tech Center – including event planning and promotion, advertising campaign development and social media consultation.
TBG Adds Seven Clients
The Bawmann Group has added seven new clients: Catholic Charities of Wichita’s Marriage and Healthy Relationship Initiative, Vantage Dental & Perfect Teeth, The Colorado Chorale, Doctor’s Express Englewood, Common Ground Colorado, The Caring for Colorado Foundation, and the Colorado Partnership for Children’s Oral Health. TBG is providing a variety of marketing and PR services for the clients, including web development, advertising campaign development, social media and community relations.
Wells Retained to Launch Restaurant Mobile App
ValuedPatron Marketing Services has retained Wells Communications to launch a new mobile customer loyalty app for restaurants in Denver, Boulder, Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul. The app is called Eat-A-Bite, Give-A-Bit, and it rewards loyal restaurant customers and benefits local Feeding America food banks in each market. VPMS plans to expand it to more than 90 U.S. markets.
Precision Spine Selects Armada for Brand, Web Work
Armada Medical Marketing has been hired by Precision Spine, a multidisciplinary treatment center that addresses spinal conditions through a variety of treatment options. Armada’s efforts will include developing the center’s brand identity, improving the design and functionality of its website and expanding upon existing marketing materials.
NCAA Selects GroundFloor for Women’s Final Four Fan Events
The NCAA has selected GroundFloor Media to market awareness of the fan events taking place in Denver in conjunction with the 2012 NCAA Women’s Final Four. GroundFloor Media will help bring attention to “Tourney Town refreshed by Coca-Cola Zero”, the “host city” and epicenter for all Women’s Final Four fan and community activities at the Colorado Convention Center through grassroots outreach, event promotions, advertising, sponsorships and social media initiatives.
Denver PR Agency Wins
- Kinkennon Communications has added the Armed Services YMCA as a client.
- The Stasko Agency has been named agency of record for Paxia Authentic Mexican Cuisine in Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood. Stasko also was selected to provide event development and marketing strategy for Trillium, a Scandinavian concept owned by Chef/Owner Ryan Leinonen (formerly of the Kitchen, Root Down and Colt and Gray).
- Armada Medical Marketing has added Booth Radiology to its client roster. Booth Radiology has four outpatient imaging centers serving South New Jersey.
Rocky Mountain ADA Center Selects Orapin
Orapin Marketing + Public Relations has added the Rocky Mountain ADA Center to its client roster and will manage the organization’s public relations activities. The ADA Center, based in Colorado Springs, provides information, guidance and training to individuals and organizations with rights and responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act and serves a six state region including Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.
USA Wrestling Selects Adrenalin for eMaterials
USA Wrestling has selected Denver-based Adrenalin to assist in developing a new series of electronic marketing materials that the organization will use to promote the sport across the country. USA Wrestling is the National Governing Body for wrestling and the sport’s representative to the U.S. Olympic Committee.
DRP Selects JW for Conference Planning Services
Denver Resources Partners has selected JohnstonWells to help plan an upcoming conference. DRP is a Colorado-based company that helps foreign companies establish themselves in North America.
Barefoot PR Adds Four Clients
Mattson Development Selects JW for Project Work
JohnstonWells has been hired to develop a strategic plan for Mattson Development, a real estate re-development firm in Maine. Drew Morris, a former JWer, is the director of communications for Mattson.
MGA Adds Five Clients
MGA Communications has added five new clients: Enerplus, May Farms, National Scholarship Providers Association, Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers Foundation and The Colorado Trust.
Adrenalin Completing Work for National Ski Patrol, DU
Adrenalin announced it is completing branding work for the National Ski Patrol and the University of Denver, helping both sports organizations advance their marketing efforts.
Emphasis Adds Client
Emphasis Marketing & Communications has added Denver start up F³ Designs as a client. Emphasis will assist F³ with the launch of its debut product, an iPad case.
Sprocket Adds Three Clients
Sprocket Communications has landed three new clients: Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks, the Colorado Mammoth and PanTerra Energy.
Jackson Hole Selects Cactus as AOR
The Jackson Hole (Wyo.) Travel and Tourism Joint Power Board has named Cactus as its agency of record. A $1.2 million budget will support public relations, social media, and print, digital, outdoor and radio advertising.
Neenan Company Selects Dovetail for Crisis Work
dovetail solutions has been retained for a crisis project by Fort Collins-based construction firm The Neenan Company.
Bawmann Hires One, Wins Several
Things are hopping at The Bawmann Group. The firm announced it has been retained by the Centers for Health and Public Safety, Kaiser Permanente-Colorado and the College for Financial Planning to provide a variety of marketing and public relations services such as web development, advertising campaign development, social media strategy and community outreach. TBG also was awarded a new contract by the State of Colorado to manage advertising and PR for the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program.
Additionally, TBG has added Kelly Heavey as account executive. Heavey is a University of Kansas graduate and most recently handled social media and public relations for the sustainability grant under the direction of the mayor of Lincoln, Neb.
Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt Names GroundFloor AOR
GroundFloor Media has been named agency of record by Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt, a self-serve, choose-your-own-toppings frozen dessert chain. GFM will provide strategic planning, traditional and social media strategy and execution.
Celestial Seasonings Selects Linhart as AOR
Congratulations to Linhart PR, which was selected as the agency of record for Celestial Seasonings. Linhart will provide “strategic counsel and support for the brand’s tea and kombucha products through integrated brand campaigns, including digital strategy and engagement.”
Cohn Announces Four New Clients
Denver’s Cohn Marketing has picked up four new brand-development clients: Galleria Dallas, Serramonte Center, Lerner Enterprises and RK Mechanical. And good news if you are involved in the retail real-estate industry – Jeff Cohn says he’s seen activity pick up in that sector over the past six months.
Sprocket Communications Adds Two Clients
Sprocket Communications has landed two new clients: Orangetheory Fitness and the Girl Scouts of Colorado.
Emphasis Adds Ted’s Clothiers as Client
Emphasis Marketing & Communications has added Ted’s Clothiers as a client. Emphasis will manage public relations for the 37-year-old men’s clothier, as well as maintain its social media presence.
Guttau PR Announces Four New Clients
Guttau Public Relations announced today that it has added four new clients: Pamalya, Enduring Images, About Time Fitness and the Roaring Fork Gay and Lesbian Community Fund.
Dave & Buster’s Selects Fitzgerald Petersen
Dave & Buster’s has selected Fitzgerald Petersen to re-launch the company’s brand and new design in Denver. The project includes media relations, implementation of social media programs and coordination of the VIP Launch Event at their Denver location.
Emphasis Adds Client
Emphasis Marketing & Communications has landed Twisted Wardrobe and Twisted Yogurt as a client. Emphasis will manage public relations for their multiple locations, as well as maintain their social media efforts.
Duo Announces New Client
Duo Marketing & PR has landed the Celtic Tavern LoDo and its sister pub Delaney’s as a client. Duo will manage public relations, including social media, for the the two locations.
Brand Iron Adds Two Clients
Brand Iron has added two new clients: General Payment Systems and VoIP My Biz. Brand Iron will support both Denver-based companies in creating brand awareness, broadening external communication methods, and overall marketing implementatio
Denver PR Agency Wins
- Cohn Marketing has been selected by SRS Real Estate Partners to assist with brand identity enhancements and strategy. SRS Real Estate Partners is the largest national real estate company in the country exclusively dedicated to retail services.
- Voca PR won two new client accounts: DazBog Coffee Company and Sports Shares.
Perini & Associates Adds Three Clients
Perini & Associates has added Woodland Aquatic Project, Wild Blue Animal Rescue & Sanctuary and UTE Pass Symphony Guild as clients. The firm will manage a number of projects for the clients, including community surveys, government relations, media relations, writing services, fund raising and special events.
Conversation Starters Announces Two New Clients
Bawmann Group Lands Three New Clients
The Bawmann Group has added Heartland Network for Social Research, Platinum Senior Services and Groves Elder & Estate Law as clients.
USA Swimming Foundation Picks GroundFloor Media
The USA Swimming Foundation has selected GroundFloor Media to lead the communications efforts for the national Make a Splash Tour with Cullen Jones, presented by ConocoPhillips, as well as national water safety awareness. Through the tour, Jones, a survivor of a near-drowning incident at age five and the first African-American male to hold a world record in swimming, is visiting six cities this summer to address the importance of water safety in an effort to reduce the number of U.S. drownings, particularly among minority youth.
Kinkennon Adds Three Clients
Kinkennon Communications has added Colorado AIDS Project, The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and Hope Street Group as clients.
Perini & Associates Announces Three New Clients
Perini & Associates has added three new clients: Park State Bank & Trust, Marilyn M. McCloskey & Associates, Inc., and Sage Woman Herbs, Ltd. The firm will provide the clients with public relations, marketing, strategic communication assessment and web development services.
Weise Adds Two Franchise Clients
Weise Communications has added two clients to its health & wellness franchise practice: Relax The Back and FirstLight HomeCare. Weise will help the companies with franchise sales development.
Stasko Agency Announces Four Clients
The Stasko Agency has been named agency of record for HeadsUp Systems and Circle Fresh Farms, and added Cellar Wine Bar and the real estate development Tejon34 as clients.
Adrenaline Announces New Clients
Adrenaline has announced a slew of new clients, including retail marketing intelligence and consumer research firm Leisure Trends Group, National Ski Patrol, performance cycling companies Reynolds Cycling and Pactimo, USA Wrestling, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and the Central Hockey League’s 2012 All Star Game and Deer Trail Assisted Living in Rock Springs. Adrenaline also announced that it is performing pro bono work for the National Alliance for Accessible Golf.
Amali Adds Four Clients
Amali PR has added four clients: Zocalo Community Development, Modern Bungalow, Project Resources Group and The Duffeyroll Cafe.
Turner PR Adds Brown Palace, Two Other Clients
Its been a good month for Turner PR. The agency has added some big names as clients, including Destination Hotels & Resorts, the Brown Palace Hotel, Filson, and the Society of American Travel Writers. Turner has been named agency of record for Destination Hotels & Resorts, the fourth largest independent hospitality management company in the United States with 38 luxury and upscale hotels, resorts and conference centers. And the agency will provide a variety of strategic digital communications services to the other three clients, including daily channel maintenance, social promotion strategy, influencer targeting, corporate blog development and integration among traditional PR and marketing efforts—events, optimized pitching and guerrilla promotions.
Guttau Wins Two, Hires Two
Guttau Public Relations announced it has added two new clients – GreenSpot and Snowmass Tourism – and added two new employees – account coordinator Jane McGillem and intern Nate Carroll.
Barefoot PR Wins Two New Clients
Barefoot PR has been named agency of record for City Projects and the Parkinson Association of the Rockies.
Duo Lands ‘Eco-Chic’ Apparel Company as Client
Duo Marketing & PR has added Colorado-based Zavella as a new client. Zavella creates eco-chic apparel and accessories made with organic bamboo and organic cotton fabric.
Metzger Lands CCIA, Coalfire as Clients
Metzger Associates has picked up two new clients: the Colorado Cleantech Industry Association and Coalfire Systems. I was impressed at Metzger’s ability to simultaneously land two clients who presumably don’t like each other very much, but it turns out that Coalfire actually is an IT audit and compliance firm.
JohnstonWells Adds Coolerado as Client
JohnstonWells Public Relations has been hired by Coolerado to work with the company’s marketing team on public relations strategy and media relations. Coolerado designs, manufactures and markets air conditioning systems for light commercial use.
