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Gerry McCusker is a PR/communications strategist and counselor, and the author of provocative pop-business text ‘Public Relations Disasters’. The book documents and explores the global phenomenon of reputation management. He has over 20 years’ experience of helping companies from diverse industry sectors – notably automotive, finance, hospitality, sports and telecomms – to get their message through to their audiences. An editorial contributor to marketing industry publications and online ‘blogs (including The Age newspaper), Gerry has also presented seminars on PR, Branding and Cause Related Marketing at business and marketing conferences in Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and Asia. Gerry has also joined the business blog team at Fairfax newspaper, The Age.

Australian brand experience agency ABT expands

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Leading Australian brand experience agency ABT is making one of the biggest moves in its 37-year history. The company’s Melbourne office has moved to a new three-storey, purpose-built facility at 6 Bond Street, South Yarra (Melbourne), directly across the road from its previous premises. The expansion follows the experiential marketing specialists most successful trading year to date, which saw...

New Wynne for brand experience agency ABT

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Brand experience agency Australian Business Theatre (ABT) has announced the appointment of Garry Wynne as Director of Strategy. Formerly in strategic client side roles at both Telstra and Optus, Wynne brings a wealth of international experience from client and agency positions in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. While Garry will be based at the experiential agency’s Sydney office, he will...

2007 PR Disasters Awards Announced

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PR watchdog and blogsite www.prdisasters.com has announced the results of its 2007 PR Disaster Awards. The winner is former Australian Liberal Minister Jackie Kelly, for her ludicrous defence of a racist and fake election leaflet, which tried to discredit the Australian Labor party. The full list of the year’s most negative PR disasters identified by bloggers, the media and PR and reputation...