- AXIS adds seven accounts. From the association world: the American Resort Development Association, Americans for the Arts, the Association of American Railroads, the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, and America’s Promise. From the commercial world: UK-based Grosvenor Asset Management and OPX Global, a DC-based architecture and interior design firm.
- D.C.-based North Bridge Communications has been tapped to handle public affairs work for the Pickens Plan, the PR campaign backing oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens’ energy program, reports O’Dwyer’s PR Report.
- The International Monetary Fund, we also hear from O’Dwyers PR, has awarded two six-figure PR contracts covering Latin American, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Hill & Knowlton has been tapped for the Middle East and Asia, while AMO-Euro RSCG was hired to cover Africa and Latin America, according to IMF media division chief William Murray. He told O’Dwyer’s the combined value of the contracts is about $1.5 million, split roughly equally between the two companies. The IMF is based in DC.