1960s through late 1990s – While representing long-time client Philip Morris, Ruder Finn was instrumental in crafting the public relations campaign that disputed the evidence tobacco smoking is hazardous to health.
1997 – Ruder Finn ran the Global Climate Coalition, a group of mainly United States businesses opposing action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
1998 – Caught in conflict of interest as discoveries of financial dealings of Swiss authorities post-World War II surfaced which involved some of their Jewish clients.
2005 – Pro bono work done for the UN raised speculation when Kofi Annan’s nephew, Kobina, worked as an intern at the firm.
2012 – Ruder Finn accepts contract worth £150,000 per month by current government of Maldives that is currently being condemned by many nations and organizations (including the Commonwealth) for organizing a political coup d’état that led to the fall of the first democratically elected President of the Maldives.
Ruder Finn
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The agency expanded aggressively in Asia, establishing offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Singapore, Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. In 2011, Ruder Finn further strengthened its presence in the region by acquiring Thunder Communications, a Chinese event management, brand and marketing consultancy, and forming a partnership with Kyodo Public Relations, the largest independent PR firm in Japan.
James Harff
https://kushima38.kagoyacloud.com/?p=4523
https://kushima38.kagoyacloud.com/?p=20010
Our work is not to verify information. We are not equipped for that. Our work is to accelerate the circulation of information favorable to us, to aim at judiciously chosen targets. We did not confirm the existence of death camps in Bosnia, we just made it widely known that Newsday affirmed it…. We are professionals. We had a job to do and we did it. We are not paid to moralize.
Arun Sudhaman
https://kushima38.kagoyacloud.com/?p=38828
World
#1. Edekman
#27. Ruder Finn
#40. Dentsu PR
O’Dwyer’s
https://kushima38.kagoyacloud.com/?p=19869
#1. Edelman
#5. Ruder Finn
Brian Falato
https://kushima38.kagoyacloud.com/?p=30554
Bosnian government clearly won the battle for public opinion in the U.S.
Ethnic Cleansing details the public relations campaign that built support for an independent Bosnia and helped bring international sanctions against Serbia, and it comes from the unlikely source of NHK, the Japanese television network.
Peter Brock
https://kushima38.kagoyacloud.com/?p=38979
“Fingerprints” in the media war could be traced to public relations specialists, including several high-powered and highly financed U.S. firms, and their clients in government information ministries. The Washington public relations firms of Ruder Finn and Hill & Knowlton, Inc. were the premier agents at work behind the lines, launching media and political salvos and raking in hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of dollars while representing the hostile republics, sometimes two at a time, in the Yugoslav war.
Jacques Merlino
https://kushima38.kagoyacloud.com/?p=20016
Les vérités yougoslaves ne sont pas toutes bonnes à dire