Texas has the second-largest LGBTQ+ population in the United States — roughly 940,000 adults — concentrated in Austin, Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. The state-vs-city communications gap, the metro economies, and the business case.
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.
PR representing government agencies has expanded from one-off contract communications into permanent infrastructure. Federal, state, and municipal agencies now run dedicated comms teams plus outside firms on specialty mandates.
By spring 2016, Flint was a Washington story. Two dozen lobbying entities, $220M in WRDA, Dan Kildee's $800M package, and the $15B lead-pipe replacement provision that ultimately followed.
A decade later: Sard Verbinnen merged into FGS Global, now KKR-owned at $1.7B. Shift Communications was absorbed into Avenir Global. MWWPR joined Stagwell. The May 2016 deal roundup, traced through the 2016-2024 PR industry consolidation wave.
But, apparently, Trump is still not the choice of many key party members.
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.
97 dead. A 37-year fight for the truth. Failed prosecutions. The Hillsborough Law. The textbook crisis-PR case study in what cover-up costs an institution \u2014 brought current through the Duckenfield retrial, the 2021 trial collapse, and the Labour government's 2024-2026 legislative response.
Food safety is the only consumer-crisis category where the customer can die. The case file from Chipotle 2015 to Boar's Head 2024 \u2014 the 24-hour rule, the founder visibility standard, and the four operating instruments every food brand should have built before the next outbreak.