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To: invest04 who wrote (1767)4/17/1998 4:19:00 PM
From: JanyBlueEyes  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 5736
 
About Hill and Knowlton

From their website hillandknowlton.com :

In an ever-changing universe, companies all over the world must put information and knowledge to work now to protect their future. Our clients understand this and are making use of the full measure of our extraordinary resources and depth of knowledge, and the ability to deliver their messages to affect change.

With a deeply and long-held commitment to excellence and integrity, Hill and Knowlton is helping clients successfully negotiate the most difficult move of all - the leap into the future.

Hill and Knowlton, a member of the WPP Group marketing and advertising services family, has extensive resources and geographic coverage.

With 51 offices in 28 countries as well as an extensive associates network, we draw on the best resources available anywhere, always respecting local geographic and cultural preference.

Using traditional methodologies as well as cutting-edge technologies, we develop integrated communications strategies consistent with clients' overall business and marketing strategies, and deliver relevant messages to target audiences.

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Financial Communications (investor relations, proxy, mergers and acquisitions, privatizations)

No longer is good corporate performance, alone, a guarantee that a company's stock price will rise. Increasingly, companies also must have an active, targeted investor communications program.

For more than 65 years, Hill and Knowlton has helped its clients define strategies, shape messages, plan effective investor relations programs and insure cost-effective implementation.

We have counselled hundreds of companies in critical situations such as proxy fights, hostile tender offers, bankruptcies, major litigation, accusations of financial malfeasance, serious declines in earnings and potentially embarrassing restatements of financials.

Hill and Knowlton combines a full range of investor relations and public relations counsel with complete proxy solicitation and stockwatch capabilities. Our staff includes former financial and business reporters, investment bankers and financial analysts.

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Corporate PR

Corporate reputation is based on more than performance. Hill and Knowlton's Corporate Services Group, experienced in business, industry, banking, law, and accounting, works with key internal and external audiences such as shareholders, clients, prospects, analysts,
employees, and the media to bring context and focus to any reputational need.

By helping companies distinguish themselves in the marketplace, identify their most important audiences, and articulate key messages, we build corporate reputations for leadership, quality in management, and long-term value.

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Hill and Knowlton (UK) Limited Wins Agency of Year Award (1997)

Voted Top PR Firm by Industry Peers

Public relations firm, Hill and Knowlton (UK) Limited has been awarded the ultimate accolade in the public relations industry - PR Consultancy of the Year. At a special dinner event, attended by some 2000 leaders of the communications industry, UK Chief Executive David McLaren accepted the much coveted award, which was presented by television personality Mark Lamar at the annual PR Week awards dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

The Consultancy of the Year Award is made each year by leading trade journal, PR Week. The PR Week annual awards recognise the best public relations campaigns in a number of categories with special Gold Awards honouring agencies, in-house departments and individuals, of which "Consultancy of the Year" is the top award.

David McLaren said, "I am so proud to accept this award on behalf of the 232 people who work in our London office. They have all contributed to our success and are among the best people in our industry. Over the past year, Hill and Knowlton has broken the mould of traditional thinking on how a large, multi-specialist agency should perform. And we'll go on breaking that mould, charting new areas in PR and communications and delivering even better results for our clients."

Hill and Knowlton, Inc. is a leading international public relations and public affairs firm based in New York, with 48 offices in 28 countries. The firm is part of WPP Group, plc, the world's largest advertising and marketing services group.



To: invest04 who wrote (1767)4/17/1998 9:51:00 PM
From: Gurupup  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 5736
 
I can tell you from a very personal experience that his stock can kill you, or come close. But, a very bright light went off in my little head yesterday, and for a smart guy I have been very stupid. I kept saying to myself that the shorts knew nothing that I didn't, but they also were not stupid so why????

DREYFUS,our largest shareholder had a poor record, and the fund was probably going to have to sell some CCSI, and lo and behold they did. Brilliant call by the shorts, they were indeed very smart, much smarter than I, and my hat is off to you. I know the manger of the fund, and he has been a very loyal, and succesful owner of CCSI, bought it at the very bottom in size, and stayed with it. Sold some in December, sold some here recently, and is now probably done for the time being. You do not throw the baby out with the bathwater, and the fund is not going to shoot itself in the foot.

The article in The Street.com was a whorehouse piece, and is usually not their style, but it was trashy and in lousy taste, unless the author really hated the fund manager, a real hatchet job, kind of like the crap in Barron's which they say they hate.

Be that as it may. What does it mean for CCSI? Now probably not much. Dreyfus IS NOT going to sell their last 1 million shares at the market to drive it down for our short friends to cover. this was technical in nature, and a great call, congratulations.

Now what. The conference starts 2 weeks from today. CCSI has hired Hill & Knowlton, one of the best PR firms in the world, who had to sign a non disclosure pact. Not your normal PR deal, sign , pay, and so on. This is going to be a major roll out, exposure, real stories, about real news, about real deals, about real revenues, about real earnings, about a real new product that is going to be highlighted in New Orleans in 2 weeks.

You don't hire the top PR firm in the country, head off to New Orleans to roll out your new product to the pediatric world without feeling very confident you are coming away with a partner, that is going to make all of this come true. I have watched very closely every twist and turn in this stock for over 2 years, and D Day is almost on top of us. Forget the Day, I am thinking about the next 2-3 years, and where we are going, I have said before I am not as concerned as all of you are with every tick of the stock. I am here for the long ball, and it is now Batter Up!