Bluestone PR Announces Expansion and Addition of LA Office; High-Technology Public Relations Company Named Agency of Record by Applied Wave Research for Third Year in a Row.Business Editors BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2004 Bluestone bluestone, common name for the blue, crystalline heptahydrate of cupric sulfate called chalcanthite, a minor ore of copper. It also refers to a fine-grained, light to dark colored blue-gray sandstone. PR, Inc., (Bluestone) a high-technology public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most (PR) agency, today announced that in order to better serve its Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, clients the company has opened a Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. office, which will be headed by industry veteran Elisabeth Kannow LeKander. The addition of offices and personnel is a result of Bluestone receiving an expanded services contract and being named agency of record by Applied Wave Research, Inc. (AWR AWR Automatic Workload Repository (Oracle database) AWR Applied Wave Research (El Segundo, CA) AWR Adventist World Radio AWR Advanced Warranty Replacement AWR American Warmblood Registry ), for the third year in a row. LeKander joined Bluestone as a partner and vice president this past December. She was previously at Agilent Technologies (formerly part of Hewlett-Packard Company) for 10 years where, most recently, she held the position of PR manager for Agilent's Electronic Products and Services Group. LeKander holds an M.A. in Journalism/Communications from California State University Enrollment  at Northridge. "Bluestone's expansion was necessary in order to service our continued growth," said Heidi Vantulden, founder and president of Bluestone PR. "Elisabeth complements Bluestone's PR services, in particular with a writing expertise that truly captures the industry trends and technical issues that today's engineers want to read about." Commenting on the naming of Bluestone as agency of record for a third year, Tom Quan, AWR vice president of marketing, said, "Bluestone PR has proven to be an invaluable asset for AWR and has increased our worldwide coverage dramatically. Having worked with Elisabeth in the past, AWR recognizes her vast communications expertise and welcomes her to the team." About Bluestone PR, Inc. Bluestone PR was founded in the spring of 2001 and provides global, comprehensive, and cost-effective public relations support to high-technology companies. Bluestone specializes in electronic design automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ), semiconductor, and IT industries. The company is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon with an office in Los Angeles. For more information on Bluestone and its services, please visit our website at www.bluestonepr.com or call 503-524-9799. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion