STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 1, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Environics Communications, a leading North American public relations firm, has been selected as agency of record for Compass, a global management consulting firm specializing in business and IT performance improvement of Fortune 1000 organizations. Environics was awarded the contract following an extensive competitive review process.
"We opted to partner with Environics because of the firm's unique understanding of our market and demonstrated ability to deliver the type of results necessary to meet our business objectives," said Alex Kozlov, Compass Director of Marketing. "We're confident that Environics will be able to help us expand and deepen awareness of Compass among key IT influencers and corporate decision makers."
Environics will support Compass by leveraging its technology and professional services experience to help Compass enhance their external communications activities. This will focus primarily on business and industry media relations, events, new media and executive visibility.
"Compass is an established IT management consultant leader with a stellar reputation among its many Fortune 1000 clients. We're honored to have been chosen as their PR partner," said Environics' Metro New York General Manager Dan Ginsburg. "We appreciate the confidence they have placed in Environics to help them expand this base and use communications to help drive their business to the next level."
About Compass
Compass (www.compassmc.com) is a global management consulting firm specializing in business and IT performance improvement for Fortune 1000 organizations. Since its founding in 1980, Compass has conducted more than 8000 engagements in 32 countries. Annually, Compass delivers over 600 engagements worldwide, typically delivering savings of over 17 percent of analyzed costs.
About Environics Communications, Inc.
Founded in 1994 and now with more than 80 staff in the United States and Canada and annual fee income of over $12 million, Environics Communications, Inc. (www.environicspr.com) is a full-service, management-owned public relations agency. Environics has won numerous awards for client work and focuses primarily on the consumer, association/nonprofit, advanced technology, financial services and health sciences sectors. The firm's offices are located in Washington, D.C., Metro New York, Toronto and Montreal.