Chris Burch has spent four decades identifying founders, funding growth, and building consumer brands. From Eagle Eye Apparel and Tory Burch to Burch Creative Capital and NIHI Sumba — the operator profile and the case study in cross-category operating range.
In May 2016, Manatos & Manatos filed FARA paperwork for Russian VTB Group at $17,500/month to lobby against Russia banking sanctions. Ten years later, VTB is on the OFAC SDN list, the Russian-state FARA category has collapsed, and the contemporary foreign-influence landscape runs through different geographies entirely.
McDonald's is having its best year of marketing in a decade. All-Day Breakfast worked. McCafé is winning incrementally. Easterbrook's Turnaround Plan is producing measurable results — and the operational chassis underneath it is the part that matters.
A decade later: Sard Verbinnen merged into FGS Global, now KKR-owned at $1.7B. Shift Communications was absorbed into Avenir Global. MikeWorldWide stayed independent under Michael Kempner. The May 2016 deal roundup, traced through the 2016-2024 PR industry consolidation wave.
For many years, educators teamed students with businesses and professionals in order to bridge the gap between education and real life work experience.
Cleveland's crisis-comms market — Hennes Communications, Falls & Co, Dix & Eaton, Marcus Thomas, Vehr — and the Fortune 500 corporate base that drives it. Cleveland Clinic, Sherwin-Williams, Progressive, KeyCorp, Eaton, Cleveland-Cliffs.
WPP reported double-digit revenue gains of 10.5 percent for 2016's first quarter equaling approximately $4.5 billion.
Atlantic City's 2025 brick-and-mortar high: $2.89B in-person, $2.88B online, $6.98B total NJ gaming (+10.8%). Borgata #3 nationally. Safety perception gap unresolved.
2000 recall, 2016 fuel-economy fraud, 2018 Ghosn arrest. Why Mitsubishi Motors has never recovered the trust it lost — and what the information environment now makes harder.
Verizon continues to navigate one of the more substantial recent labor actions across multiple categories. The 36,000 IBEW and CWA wireline workers, the nine East Coast states geographic scope, the substantial strike issues including job security, pension considerations, and operational flexibility, and the broader Verizon operational response.