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Edward Howard (public relations firm)
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Edward Howard was an Ohio
-based public relations
, investor relations
, marketing communications
and graphic design
firm that opened in 1925. The company was acquired by Fahlgren Inc. in March 2010 and officially joined forces with Fahlgren’s public relations business unit, Fahlgren Mortine Public Relations, on June 28, 2010. With the acquisition of Edward Howard, Fahlgren Mortine became the largest public relations firm in Ohio and is ranked 22nd on the recent O’Dwyer’s ranking of top independent public relations firms.
At the time of its acquisition, Edward Howard was the nation’s longest-established independent public relations firm and was 100 percent employee owned.
Fahlgren Mortine is known for its expertise in public relations, marketing communications, media relations, crisis communications
, reputation management
, investor relations, public/government affairs, and more recently, for its leadership in social media
and interactive online communications.
s to help raise finances for World War I
through propaganda posters at bank branch offices. Previously, Edward Howard II had worked as a police and sports reporter for the The Plain Dealer and had obtained a year of law school education. With $400 in start-up capital, the support of his young wife Claire McMurray Howard, and two clients, he began a new career in the fledgling field of public relations.
Over the next 29 years, he established and expanded the firm beyond its original two clients – a stock brokerage and a bank (Cleveland Trust) – to include leading organizations such as Hanna Mining Co., Cleveland Graphite Bronze (later Clevite) and the Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Virginia
. In the meantime, wife Claire McMurray Howard became a prominent columnist with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, penning a column titled "Good Morning," from 1936 until 1965. In 1941, the J.B. Lippincott Company published Claire's first book, And Beat Him When He Sneezes, a collection of her columns that appeared in The Plain Dealer. This book later became the basis for Claire's national radio show on NBC Radio.
, Eaton Corporation
, Lubrizol
, Reliance Electric, White Motor, and Pickands Mather Co. were all important clients during the 1950s and 1960s.
Eldest son, Edward Howard III, would became chief executive officer in 1954 when founder Edward Howard died of a second heart attack. Middle son James Howard, became chief executive office just seven years later in 1961 when his brother Edward Howard III moved to Sydney, Australia to form an Edward Howard branded public relations consulting business there.
James Howard focused the firm heavily on both investor relations and political work. In 1967, the company published the nation’s first timely disclosure manual for publicly traded companies. The agency was hired by Richard Nixon
in 1968 to consult on his candidacy for president of the United States of America. In 1969, Edward Howard acquired three entities of Selvage & Lee, forming Selvage, Lee & Howard and adding offices in New York
, Chicago
and Washington, D.C.
. That transaction demerged just 27 months later, and Selvage & Lee merged with Farley Manning to form Manning, Selvage & Lee in 1972.
in Lake Superior
. It created the New Cleveland Campaign, one of the nation's earliest economic development marketing programs, and in 1980, Edward Howard handled media relations work for the Jimmy Carter
-Ronald Reagan
presidential debate
in Cleveland.
Bailey served as the firm’s top executive for 15 years until he retired as chairman and chief executive officer in 1986 and was succeeded by Stanley L. Ulchaker. Davis B. Young joined the firm shortly thereafter in 1987 and teamed with Ulchaker to lead the firm and serve as its president throughout the 1990s. In 1996, Young authored Building Your Company’s Good Name, a book on corporate reputation management published by the American Management Association
.
An Akron, Ohio
office was added in 1989 with the acquisition of David A. Meeker & Associates; this office was merged into the Cleveland office in 2002. A Columbus, Ohio
office opened in 1991 as a start-up operation. In 1992, the Dayton, Ohio
office was added through the acquisition of Winslow Chappell, Inc.
Well-known Edward Howard clients during the 1980s and 1990s included Rubbermaid
, Progressive Insurance, Major League Baseball
, Rockwell International
, AT&T Wireless Services
, Target Corporation
, Cleveland Cavaliers
, Invacare
, Charter One and Revco
Drug Stores.
Well-known clients of Edward Howard during this time included organizations such as Wal-Mart
, Sherwin-Williams, Cedar Fair, Nokia
, Leggett & Platt
, The Hoover Company
, Dirt Devil
, Invisible Fence, Huffy
, Kidde
, Glimcher, AEP Ohio, the Cleveland Indians
, Cliffs Natural Resources, The Step2 Company and the Greater Cleveland Partnership.
, with offices in Cleveland, Ohio
. Dayton, Ohio
, Atlanta, Georgia
and Denver, Colorado
.
Well-known Fahlgren Mortine clients include organizations such as Kroger
, Sherwin-Williams, Emerson Network Power
, Leggett & Platt
, Liebert
, Elmer's Products, Inc.
Glue Crew, Donatos Pizza
, Worthington Industries
, Kidde
, Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus)
, Scentsy
, Applied Industrial Technologies
, Balloon Time, Grange insurance, Ohio Department of Development Division of Tourism, Redemtech, and Chromalox. Publicly held Cedar Fair, operator of Cedar Point
and numerous other amusement parks, remains the agency’s single longest standing client relationship, dating back to the late 1960s, more than 40 years.
(PRSA).
The most recent Silver Anvil was awarded in 2010 for the company's work in behalf of Lifeline of Ohio’s “Changing the Meaning of ‘Organ Donation’ Among Motorcyclists.”
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
-based public relations
Public relations
Public relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....
, investor relations
Investor relations
Investor Relations is a strategic management responsibility that integrates finance, communication, marketing and securities law compliance to enable the most effective two-way communication between a company, the financial community, and other constituencies, which ultimately contributes to a...
, marketing communications
Marketing communications
Marketing Communications are messages and related media used to communicate with a market...
and graphic design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
firm that opened in 1925. The company was acquired by Fahlgren Inc. in March 2010 and officially joined forces with Fahlgren’s public relations business unit, Fahlgren Mortine Public Relations, on June 28, 2010. With the acquisition of Edward Howard, Fahlgren Mortine became the largest public relations firm in Ohio and is ranked 22nd on the recent O’Dwyer’s ranking of top independent public relations firms.
At the time of its acquisition, Edward Howard was the nation’s longest-established independent public relations firm and was 100 percent employee owned.
Fahlgren Mortine is known for its expertise in public relations, marketing communications, media relations, crisis communications
Crisis communications
Crisis communication is sometimes considered a sub-specialty of the public relations profession that is designed to protect and defend an individual, company, or organization facing a public challenge to its reputation...
, reputation management
Reputation management
Reputation management , also known as directory management, is the process of tracking an entity's actions and other entities' opinions about those actions; reporting on those actions and opinions; and reacting to that report creating a feedback loop. All entities involved are generally people, but...
, investor relations, public/government affairs, and more recently, for its leadership in social media
Social media
The term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0,...
and interactive online communications.
1925 - 1950
Edward Howard was founded in 1925 by Edward Howard II, then a young employee who served as an advertising manager for The Cleveland Trust Company. Among other duties, he edited Cleveland Trust's employee publication and promoted the sale of liberty bondLiberty bond
A Liberty Bond was a war bond that was sold in the United States to support the allied cause in World War I. Subscribing to the bonds became a symbol of patriotic duty in the United States and introduced the idea of financial securities to many citizens for the first time. The Act of Congress which...
s to help raise finances for World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
through propaganda posters at bank branch offices. Previously, Edward Howard II had worked as a police and sports reporter for the The Plain Dealer and had obtained a year of law school education. With $400 in start-up capital, the support of his young wife Claire McMurray Howard, and two clients, he began a new career in the fledgling field of public relations.
Over the next 29 years, he established and expanded the firm beyond its original two clients – a stock brokerage and a bank (Cleveland Trust) – to include leading organizations such as Hanna Mining Co., Cleveland Graphite Bronze (later Clevite) and the Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Virginia
Hot Springs, Virginia
Hot Springs is a census-designated place in Bath County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 738. It is located about 5 miles southwest of Warm Springs on U.S. Route 220. Hot Springs is the site of a number of resorts that make use of the springs.The area is...
. In the meantime, wife Claire McMurray Howard became a prominent columnist with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, penning a column titled "Good Morning," from 1936 until 1965. In 1941, the J.B. Lippincott Company published Claire's first book, And Beat Him When He Sneezes, a collection of her columns that appeared in The Plain Dealer. This book later became the basis for Claire's national radio show on NBC Radio.
1950 - 1970
Edward Howard II's three sons, Edward Howard III, James S. Howard, and Nathaniel R. (Nat) Howard II all worked in the agency. The Cleveland ClinicCleveland Clinic
The Cleveland Clinic is a multispecialty academic medical center located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The Cleveland Clinic is currently regarded as one of the top 4 hospitals in the United States as rated by U.S. News & World Report...
, Eaton Corporation
Eaton Corporation
Eaton Corporation is a global diversified power management company with 2010 sales of $13.7 billion. The company is a leading provider of electrical components and systems for power quality, distribution and control; hydraulics components, systems and services for industrial and mobile equipment;...
, Lubrizol
Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company that produces and supplies technologies, which are designed to improve the quality and performance of products in the global transportation, industrial and consumer markets...
, Reliance Electric, White Motor, and Pickands Mather Co. were all important clients during the 1950s and 1960s.
Eldest son, Edward Howard III, would became chief executive officer in 1954 when founder Edward Howard died of a second heart attack. Middle son James Howard, became chief executive office just seven years later in 1961 when his brother Edward Howard III moved to Sydney, Australia to form an Edward Howard branded public relations consulting business there.
James Howard focused the firm heavily on both investor relations and political work. In 1967, the company published the nation’s first timely disclosure manual for publicly traded companies. The agency was hired by Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
in 1968 to consult on his candidacy for president of the United States of America. In 1969, Edward Howard acquired three entities of Selvage & Lee, forming Selvage, Lee & Howard and adding offices in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
and Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
. That transaction demerged just 27 months later, and Selvage & Lee merged with Farley Manning to form Manning, Selvage & Lee in 1972.
1970–2000
In 1970, the company bought back the stock held by members of the Howard family, naming John T. (Jack) Bailey as president. Under Bailey’s direction, Edward Howard provided crisis communications consulting work to Oglebay Norton Company during the tragic 1975 sinking of the SS Edmund FitzgeraldSS Edmund Fitzgerald
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that made headlines after sinking in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 8, 1958, she was the largest boat on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains...
in Lake Superior
Lake Superior
Lake Superior is the largest of the five traditionally-demarcated Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded to the north by the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Minnesota, and to the south by the U.S. states of Wisconsin and Michigan. It is the largest freshwater lake in the...
. It created the New Cleveland Campaign, one of the nation's earliest economic development marketing programs, and in 1980, Edward Howard handled media relations work for the Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
-Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
presidential debate
United States presidential election, 1980
The United States presidential election of 1980 featured a contest between incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan, as well as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson, who ran as an independent...
in Cleveland.
Bailey served as the firm’s top executive for 15 years until he retired as chairman and chief executive officer in 1986 and was succeeded by Stanley L. Ulchaker. Davis B. Young joined the firm shortly thereafter in 1987 and teamed with Ulchaker to lead the firm and serve as its president throughout the 1990s. In 1996, Young authored Building Your Company’s Good Name, a book on corporate reputation management published by the American Management Association
American Management Association
The American Management Association , based in New York City, is a corporate training and consulting group that provides a variety of educational and management development services to businesses, government agencies and individuals. The non-profit membership organization offers business courses in...
.
An Akron, Ohio
Akron, Ohio
Akron , is the fifth largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County. It is located in the Great Lakes region approximately south of Lake Erie along the Little Cuyahoga River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 199,110. The Akron Metropolitan...
office was added in 1989 with the acquisition of David A. Meeker & Associates; this office was merged into the Cleveland office in 2002. A Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...
office opened in 1991 as a start-up operation. In 1992, the Dayton, Ohio
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...
office was added through the acquisition of Winslow Chappell, Inc.
Well-known Edward Howard clients during the 1980s and 1990s included Rubbermaid
Rubbermaid
Rubbermaid is an American manufacturer and distributor of many household items. It is a subsidiary of Newell Rubbermaid. It is most well known for producing food storage containers and trash cans...
, Progressive Insurance, Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
, Rockwell International
Rockwell International
Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate in the latter half of the 20th century, involved in aircraft, the space industry, both defense-oriented and commercial electronics, automotive and truck components, printing presses, valves and meters, and industrial automation....
, AT&T Wireless Services
AT&T Wireless Services
AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., founded in 1987 as McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc., and now legally known as New Cingular Wireless Services, Inc., formerly part of AT&T Corp., is a wireless telephone carrier in the United States, based in Redmond, Washington, and later traded on the New York...
, Target Corporation
Target Corporation
Target Corporation, doing business as Target, is an American retailing company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, behind Walmart. The company is ranked at number 33 on the Fortune 500 and is a component of the Standard & Poor's...
, Cleveland Cavaliers
Cleveland Cavaliers
The Cleveland Cavaliers are a professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They began playing in the National Basketball Association in 1970 as an expansion team...
, Invacare
Invacare
Invacare Corporation is one of the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of non-acute medical equipments including wheelchairs, mobility scooters, walkers, pressure care and positioning, as well as respiratory products...
, Charter One and Revco
Revco
Revco Discount Drug Stores , once based in Twinsburg, Ohio, was a major drug store chain operating through the Ohio Valley, the Mid-Atlantic states, and the Southeastern United States. The chain's stock was traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RXR...
Drug Stores.
2001–2009
Upon Ulchaker’s retirement in 2000, a new management team assumed responsibility for the firm, consisting of chairman and chief executive officer Kathy Cupper Obert; president Wayne R. Hill; and executive vice presidents Nora Jacobs, Donald Hohmeier and Mark Grieves.Well-known clients of Edward Howard during this time included organizations such as Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...
, Sherwin-Williams, Cedar Fair, Nokia
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
, Leggett & Platt
Leggett & Platt
Leggett & Platt , based in Carthage, Missouri, is a diversified manufacturer that conceives, designs and produces a broad variety of engineered components and products that can be found in most homes, offices, and automobiles. The company serves a broad suite of customers that comprise a "Who's...
, The Hoover Company
The Hoover Company
The Hoover Company started out as an American floor care manufacturer based in North Canton, Ohio. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom and for most of the early-and-mid-20th century, it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the "hoover" brand name...
, Dirt Devil
Dirt Devil
Dirt Devil is a brand name of household vacuum cleaners and floor care. There are two main units: Power for large houses, and RV unit for smaller houses or apartments, as well as a number of other floor care products including hand-held vacuum cleaners and carpet shampooing machines.-Company...
, Invisible Fence, Huffy
Huffy
The Huffy Corporation is an American importer and manufacturer of inexpensive mass-market bicycles. It was founded in 1887 when George P. Huffman purchased the Davis Sewing Machine Company and moved its factory to Dayton, Ohio. Seven years later, in 1894, Huffman adapted the factory to...
, Kidde
Kidde
Kidde, a brand and division of United Technologies Corporation, is a business, or group of businesses, that manufactures and distributes fire detection and extinguishing equipment.-History:The company was founded by Walter Kidde in 1917 in the United States...
, Glimcher, AEP Ohio, the Cleveland Indians
Cleveland Indians
The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...
, Cliffs Natural Resources, The Step2 Company and the Greater Cleveland Partnership.
2010
It was announced on January 13, 2010 that Edward Howard would be acquired by Columbus, Ohio-based Fahlgren Inc. The acquisition closed in March 2010, and on June 28, 2010 Edward Howard joined forces with the Fahlgren Mortine Public Relations business unit of Fahlgren Inc. Neil Mortine, founder of Fahlgren Mortine Public Relations, is the CEO of Fahlgren Inc. Melissa Dykstra is Senior Vice President, Executive Director of Fahlgren Mortine. Kathy Obert became Managing Director of Fahlgren Inc. Wayne Hill became Executive Vice President of Fahlgren Mortine. Mark Grieves became Senior Vice President, Creative Director, Fahlgren Corporate Services.Current operations and clients
Fahlgren Mortine’s work is spread nationally and internationally. The business unit is based in Columbus, OhioColumbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...
, with offices in Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
. Dayton, Ohio
Dayton, Ohio
Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...
, Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
and Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
.
Well-known Fahlgren Mortine clients include organizations such as Kroger
Kroger
The Kroger Co. is an American supermarket chain founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It reported US$ 76.7 billion in sales during fiscal year 2009. It is the country's largest grocery store chain and its second-largest grocery retailer by volume and second-place general retailer...
, Sherwin-Williams, Emerson Network Power
Emerson Network Power
Emerson Network Power – a division of Emerson Electric Company – is a global technology company that specializes in the development and manufacture of power backup systems, power supplies, embedded computing solutions, precision cooling, racks/enclosures, infrastructure management, and connectivity...
, Leggett & Platt
Leggett & Platt
Leggett & Platt , based in Carthage, Missouri, is a diversified manufacturer that conceives, designs and produces a broad variety of engineered components and products that can be found in most homes, offices, and automobiles. The company serves a broad suite of customers that comprise a "Who's...
, Liebert
Liebert (company)
Liebert Corporation, a business of the Emerson Network Power platform of Emerson Electric, is a global manufacturer of power, precision cooling and infrastructure management systems for main-frame computer, server racks, and critical process systems...
, Elmer's Products, Inc.
Elmer's Products, Inc.
Elmer's Products, Inc. is the manufacturer of Elmer's Glue-All and other crafts and home repair products, including Krazy Glue, Ross Glue, ProBond adhesives, and X-Acto craft knives. Elmer's also produces foamboard and presentation board. It has its headquarters in Columbus, Ohio.The brand was...
Glue Crew, Donatos Pizza
Donatos Pizza
Donatos Pizza is a pizza delivery restaurant chain headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. It has nearly 200 locations in six states, with the majority of locations in Ohio...
, Worthington Industries
Worthington Industries
Worthington Industries, Inc. is a diversified metal manufacturing company with annual sales of approximately $2.6 billion. The Columbus, Ohio based company is a steel processor and a manufacturer of metal products such as light gauge steel framing for commercial and residential construction;...
, Kidde
Kidde
Kidde, a brand and division of United Technologies Corporation, is a business, or group of businesses, that manufactures and distributes fire detection and extinguishing equipment.-History:The company was founded by Walter Kidde in 1917 in the United States...
, Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus)
Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus)
Nationwide Children’s Hospital is a primary pediatric hospital in Columbus, Ohio, with more than 950 medical staff members and over 6,800 total employees. In recent years, the hospital has been ranked as one the best hospitals in the United States by US News & World Report...
, Scentsy
Scentsy
Scentsy Inc. is a candle warmer company founded in 2004, and based in Meridian, Idaho. The company offers various types of candle warmers, or wick-less candles. By eliminating the flame, Scentsy claims that they are safer than regular candles...
, Applied Industrial Technologies
Applied Industrial Technologies
With fiscal 2010 sales of $1.89 billion, Applied Industrial Technologies is one of North America's largest independent distributors of bearings, power transmission components, hydraulic components and systems, pneumatic components and systems, industrial rubber products, linear components, tools,...
, Balloon Time, Grange insurance, Ohio Department of Development Division of Tourism, Redemtech, and Chromalox. Publicly held Cedar Fair, operator of Cedar Point
Cedar Point
Cedar Point is a 364 acre amusement park located in Sandusky, Ohio, United States on a narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Erie. Cedar Point is the only amusement park with four roller coasters that are taller than...
and numerous other amusement parks, remains the agency’s single longest standing client relationship, dating back to the late 1960s, more than 40 years.
Recognition
Fahlgren Mortine remains a highly regarded agency throughout the nation. The firm is the recipient of 25 Silver Anvils – the highest award of the Public Relations Society of AmericaPublic Relations Society of America
The ' , based in New York City, is the world's largest organization for public relations professionals. The organization has more than 21,000 members, including professionals from public relations agencies, corporations, government, health care institutions, military, professional services firms,...
(PRSA).
The most recent Silver Anvil was awarded in 2010 for the company's work in behalf of Lifeline of Ohio’s “Changing the Meaning of ‘Organ Donation’ Among Motorcyclists.”