ECCO signs up Market Cross PR agency

Buenos Aires, Santiago and London

ECCO International Public Relations Ltd. announced today that it has appointed Market Cross to be their ECCO member for Argentina and Chile.  ECCO is one of the worlds leading international public relations and marketing services networks and ranks 4th in Europe (source: PR Week European league table 2005) with an overall fee income of over 18,654,100  million euros in 2004 and over 400 consultants.  The addition of Market Cross expands ECCOs membership to  29 PR agencies across 30 countries around the world.

Market Cross is one of Latin Americas best known and largest of the independent PR consultancies.  It offers a comprehensive range of public relations services including corporate and financial communications, media relations, investor relations, event management, crisis communications, and graphic and web design services.  The agency provides public relations services to over 30 clients and has a portfolio spanning diverse sectors including information technology, telecommunications, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, education and entertainment.

Kathryn Bishop, ECCO Operations Co-ordinator, comments ECCO is pleased to welcome Market Cross to the network.  We have focused efforts in the last 12 months on establishing client service facilities in the emerging economies of China, India and Eastern Europe as well as Latin America and the addition of Market Cross fills one of the last gaps in network coverage.  In the last year we have seen increased demand for work in these regions, with briefs from the network going into China for the first time and India, and we expect growth in Latin America equally.

Cristela Reyes, President of Market Cross says The partnership with ECCO is an important step forward. It offers us access to over 30 countries internationally and a set of first-rate clients.  We are now also able to offer our Latin American based clients services in all of Europe, North America, the Middle East, Africa and key markets in Asia.

Sara Render, ECCO Director and Executive Chairman of ECCOs UK agency, Kinross + Render comments: All our members are independent owner-managed businesses with a strong track record of good client retention and excellent work.  Market Cross meets the criteria as well as, importantly, having principals with an international mindset and experience of running global programmes. We are pleased to have them on board.

For further information:

Market Cross A PR company

Argentina office 

Austria 1873 Piso 2
Buenos Aires
Argentina
C1425EGC
Tel / Fax  0054114827 ? 3800

Chile office

Pedro de Valdivia 800
Santiago, Chile
Tel / Fax 0056 23780889

info@marketcross.com.ar
URL: www.marketcross.com.ar

ECCO International Public Relations
Sara Render
Director, ECCO International Public Relations / Executive Chairman, Kinross + Render, Ltd.
Tel: +44 207 592 3105
sr@kinrossrender.com
www.ecco-network.com

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Notes to Editors

ECCO

ECCO is a network of independently owned and operated PR and marketing communications consultancies located in over 30 countries and headquartered in London, ECCO member agencies are successful in their own right and are owner managed by senior people with big agency / big client experience. 

The objective for ECCO is to offer the best services to the client, taking advantage of its international presence and of the full independence of its partners.  ECCO clients include BenQ,  HR Access, Xerox,
Crafts & Hobbies Association, MEGA.  Q-Free and Interface 

Market Cross
Market Cross is a full-service public relations and marketing communications agency specializing in providing media and investor relations, corporate and financial communications, and event and crisis management.   Market Cross offers a regional coverage from its offices in Argentina and Chile to all the Latin American region, Mexico and the Caribbean.