In her new role, Jackie Cooper will oversee the firm’s creative offering and teams, and will report directly to Richard Edelman. She will also join the company's Executive Committee.
Daniel J. Edelman, the legend behind the world's most powerful PR company, died at the hospital today of heart failure. He was 92 years old.
In a move essential to Edelman's pan-Asia growth strategy, the company added oversight of Africa and the Middle East to the responsibilities of David Brain, currently president and CEO of APAC.
Edelman's second annual 8095 study reveals key findings concerning the connection between Millennials' consumer behavior and purchase decisions, the recession and brand engagement.
Edelman has joined the #GivingTuesday initiative as part of their global citizenship program. The company also announced the results of a broader such initiative launched earlier this year, the 603 global citizenship initiative to support hunger and poverty alleviation as a way of celebrating its 60th anniversary. From July 16 through September 13, the company’s employees in over 60 offices worldwide were involved in 60 days of professional and general volunteerism and fundraising. Edelman managed to contribute USD 1,047,352 in monetary and in-kind donations to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and over 70 hunger and poverty nonprofit organizations worldwide.
Edelman released the Edelman Privacy Risk Index℠ (ePRI) and an online benchmarking tool that help businesses and organizations make sense and address data security and privacy risks.
Edelman announced that Sonia Sroka joined the public relations firm as executive vice president and group head in the New York office.
Christiaan Brown joined the world’s largest public relations firm, Edelman, as a senior vice president at the Seattle Technology practice, where he will report to leader Troy McCombs. Previous to this position, Brown was general manager of Hill+Knowlton Strategies Northwest and served as global client relationship manager of the Qualcomm account.
Michael J. Berland was hired by Edelman to lead the company’s strategic research and analytic business, recently renamed Edelman Berland.
On Friday Edelman, the world’s largest public relations firm, announced having named Florence Baranes-Cohen the very first Director General of Edelman France.