BORDER LINES: SACRAMENTO - Porter Novelli buys NCG

JEMIMAH BAILEY, PR Week UK, Friday, 10 December 1999, 12:00am,

Porter Novelli has bolstered its West Coast public affairs presence with the acquisition of pounds 4 million agency Nelson Communications Group (NCG). According to Nelson CEO and president Donna Lucas her firm will officially become NCG Porter Novelli, a separate unit operating in tandem with Porter Novelli’s LA and San Francisco offices, as well as Malibu-based Goddard Claussen Porter Novelli, the issues advocacy firm acquired in July. No staff or management changes are planned for the 60-strong operation, and the firm will continue to operate its offices in Sacramento, Irvine and San Diego.

Porter Novelli has bolstered its West Coast public affairs presence

with the acquisition of pounds 4 million agency Nelson Communications

Group (NCG). According to Nelson CEO and president Donna Lucas her firm

will officially become NCG Porter Novelli, a separate unit operating in

tandem with Porter Novelli’s LA and San Francisco offices, as well as

Malibu-based Goddard Claussen Porter Novelli, the issues advocacy firm

acquired in July. No staff or management changes are planned for the

60-strong operation, and the firm will continue to operate its offices

in Sacramento, Irvine and San Diego.

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