Agency Global Partnership Expands into Czech and Slovak
MINNEAPOLIS – 22 February 2012: IPREX, the worldwide corporation of public relations and communication firms, has recruited Prague-based Donath Business & Media (DBM) to its EMEA region, which now has 37 offices in 21 countries.
DBM has been working in public relations and public affairs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia since 1991, offering a broad range of services in strategic communications consulting, crisis and reputation management, creative services and public affairs.
The company’s reputation is based on client success delivered through its combination of an ethical stance with creativity and the active use of the latest IT and social media tools. Its industry expertise includes banking and finance, retail, logistics, media, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, transportation, software, renewable energy and controversial environmental projects.
Clients include UPS, REWE/BILLA retail chain, Samson brewery, International PhotoVoltaic Investors Club, Czech CFA Society and the country’s largest producer of bottled mineral water, Karlovarske mineralni vody.
Company founder and managing director, Michal Donath, said: “It is our job to foster relations on all levels while preventing unnecessary public affairs
problems, and doing this in the future in the company of many esteemed international colleagues, while retaining our independence, will be both a pleasure and an honor.”
IPREX EMEA President, Christian Hannestad, (The Communications Business, Edinburgh) commented: “With its long experience of international communication work, DBM fits seamlessly into the IPREX worldwide team. The firm’s work is of a very high standard, as their European Excellence Awards demonstrate, and as we develop further opportunities for our partners to work together on client business we look forward to the input of Michal and his team.”
About IPREX:
IPREX is one of the world’s major corporations of public relations and communication firms. Founded in 1983, its 71 partners have 106 offices in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, with annual revenue of US$189m. Its 1,500 professionals provide a comprehensive range of services for some of the world’s most successful companies.
