INTERNATIONAL: Merged Albion is in Spain’s top ten

MADRID: Corporate and financial communications agency Grupo Albion

Asesores de Comunicacion has merged with IT and telecommunications

specialist Comunicacion Sin Fronteras (COSIF), to create a top ten

Spanish agency with fees in excess of pounds 1 million.

Grupo Albion specialises in financial, corporate and IT/telecoms PR. The

agency’s chief executive, Paget Langford-Holt, commented: ’The merger is

a strategic fit with our core business and enables us to continue to

consolidate our market position.’.

COSIF is one of Spain’s leading hi-tech agencies with clients including

Bell Atlantic and Beta Systems.

COSIF founder Aden Hayes has joined Grupo Albion as an area

director.

’The merger enables clients of both companies to benefit from the

agency’s specialist knowledge, combined with Grupo Albion’s

infrastructure and its broad communications skills and experience,’ he

said.