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{{Short description|Public relations firm with co-headquarters in the United States and China}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Ruder Finn
| type = Private
| logo = Ruder Finn logo.png
| founder = ]<br/>Bill Ruder
| foundation = 1948
| location = ]<br />]
| industry = ] <br />]<br />]
| key_people = Kathy Bloomgarden <br><small>(CEO)</small><br>Nick Leonard <br><small>(managing director, UK)</small><br>Elan Shou <br><small>(managing director, China)</small><br>Atul Sharma <br><small>(managing director, India)</small><br>Michael Sschubert<br><small>(Chief Innovation Officer)</small><br>Peggy Walsh <br><small>(Chief Operating Officer)</small><br>Ian Glover <br><small>(Chief Financial Officer)</small><br>Tejas Totade <br><small>(Chief Technology Officer)</small><br>Adeline Phun <br><small>(General Manager, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)</small><br>Hilal Khashan <br><small>(Managing Director, Norway)</small>
| area_served = Global
| homepage = {{Official URL}}
}}
'''Ruder Finn''' is a ] firm with headquarters in the ] and ]. It is a large privately-owned ]s agency, serving ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/17/business/keeping-it-in-the-family/index.html |title=Keeping a legacy alive: CEO puts her stamp on the family business |publisher=CNN |date=2014-04-17 |access-date=2019-11-07}}</ref> It also has offices in ], ], ], ], and several ] metro areas including the ].


==History==
'''Ruder Finn''' is an ] ] firm founded in 1948 by ] and ].


=== Origins: 1948-1960's ===
Ruder Finn is a privately held, family-owned company that employs more than 600 people. Its public relations cover healthcare, technology, consumer, interactive, media, arts and culture, and environmental programming.{{Specify|date=January 2007}}
Ruder Finn was established in 1948 in ] by ] and Bill Ruder.<ref>David Finn, {{cite book|title=The Way Forward: My First Fifty Years at Ruder Finn|url=https://archive.org/details/wayforwardmyfirs0000finn|url-access=registration|year=1998|publisher=Millwood Publishing|location=New York|page=}}</ref>


The firm's first client was country singer ]. Its success at promoting Como attracted more clients in show business, including ] and ].<ref name=NYT1>{{cite web |last1=Rifkin |first1=Glenn |title=David Finn, Co-Founder of a Public Relations Power, Dies at 100 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/business/david-finn-dead.html |website=nytimes.com |publisher=New York Times |access-date=1 February 2022}}</ref> Ruder Finn eventually expanded to represent consumer product companies and government agencies.<ref name=NYT1 />
Since 1978, Ruder Finn has maintained an executive-training program, which approximately 20% of Ruder Finn employees have participated in to date.


⚫ In the 1960s through late 1990s, while representing long-time client ] (now ]), Ruder Finn was instrumental in crafting the public relations campaign that disputed the evidence tobacco smoking is hazardous to health.<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614120649/http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/ekw82f00/pdf |date=June 14, 2011 }}</ref><ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614120711/http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wvg98e00/pdf |date=June 14, 2011 }}</ref><ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614120721/http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/vhr02a00/pdf |date=June 14, 2011 }}</ref><ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603155408/http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/action/search/basic?fd=0&q=%22Ruder+Finn%22&df=er&c=pm |date=June 3, 2016 }}</ref>
In the 1960s, Ruder Finn hired ] to create a design division, Ruder, Finn & Fujita.<ref>{{cite news|title=S. Neil Fujita, Innovative Graphic Designer, Dies at 89|first=William|last=Grimes|date=October 27, 2010|accessdate=October 27, 2010|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/arts/design/27fujita.html|newspaper=]}}</ref>


==Clients== === 1990's ===
In the early 1990s, Croatian nationalists initially (and later the Bosnian and Albanian sides) hired the American PR agency Ruder Finn for the “information war.” They unleashed a wave of press releases, press conferences, press materials, and even established a “Bosnia Crisis Communication Center.” The carefully and consciously constructed narrative interpretation by this agency of Serbia as the new Nazi Germany and Slobodan Milosevic as the new Hitler laid the fertile ground on which the very complex civil war – with war crimes committed by all involved parties – could now be distorted and portrayed as a new extermination war and genocide by the Serbs against their own population. The horrors of the terrible massacres and genocides of World War II were invoked, rising like ghosts and overshadowing the current events. The “Račak Massacre,” extensively reported worldwide for days, became a turning point in NATO policy toward Belgrade and changed public perception in Europe and the USA regarding airstrikes on Yugoslavia.


In 1997, Ruder Finn ran the ], a group of mainly United States businesses opposing action to reduce ].<ref>{{cite news |last=Hammond |first=Keith |title=Astroturf Troopers, How the polluters' lobby uses phony front groups to attack the Kyoto treaty |date=December 4, 1997 |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1997/12/astroturf-troopers |magazine=] |access-date=February 6, 2016 |quote=The Global Climate Coalition (GCC), run by Washington P.R. firm Ruder Finn, represents the big oil, gas, coal, and auto corporations.}}</ref>
Ruder Finn's first client was actually ], and was followed by celebrity clients such as ], ], ], ] and ]. Other clients have included ], ], Travel Alberta, ], ], and ].
In 1998, the firm was caught in a ] after it was revealed that it represented both the ] and the ].<ref name="jf">{{cite web|url=https://www.jweekly.com/1998/05/15/leading-p-r-firm-caught-in-fray-between-swiss-jewish-clients/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609120832/http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/8282/leading-p-r-firm-caught-in-fray-between-swiss-jewish-clients/|archive-date=June 9, 2012|title=Leading P.R. firm caught in fray between Swiss, Jewish clients|last=Cohen|first=Deborah Nussbaum|publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency}}</ref> The Jewish Agency's World Jewish Restitution Organization was pursuing a settlement with the Swiss government over its financial dealings during ]. Ruder Finn responded to this news by severing relations with the Jewish Agency.<ref name="jf" />


In 1999 Ruder Finn established RFI Studios, a digital practice, to help clients protect and build their reputation online.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://everything-pr.com/ruder-finn-office/|title=Ruder Finn Pays $30 Million for New Office - PR News|date=2015-04-28|website=Everything-PR: Public Relations, Marketing and Social Media News|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-18}}</ref> The agency expanded in ], establishing offices in ], ], ], ], Singapore, ], ] and ].
==Controversy==


=== 2000's ===
⚫ 1960s through late 1990s - While representing long-time client ] (now ]), Ruder Finn was instrumental in crafting the public relations campaign that disputed the evidence tobacco smoking is hazardous to health.<ref> {{WebCite|url=http://www.webcitation.org/5x4ICg4Ve|date =2011-03-09}}</ref><ref> {{WebCite|url=http://www.webcitation.org/5x4IDRkYs|date =2011-03-09}}</ref><ref> {{WebCite|url=http://www.webcitation.org/5x4IEWE9F|date =2011-03-09}}</ref><ref> {{WebCite|url=http://www.webcitation.org/5x4IFUBBp|date =2011-03-09}}</ref>
⚫ In 2005, pro bono work done for the UN raised speculation when ]'s nephew, Kobina, worked as an intern at the firm.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206150650/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,150043,00.html |date=February 6, 2011 }}</ref>


Kathy Bloomgarden, Finn's daughter, became CEO when he retired in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rifkin |first1=Glenn |title=David Finn, Co-Founder of a Public Relations Power, Dies at 100 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/business/david-finn-dead.html |website=nytimes.com |publisher=New York Times |access-date=1 February 2022}}</ref> That year Ruder Finn acquired Thunder Communications, a Chinese event management, brand and marketing consultancy, and formed a partnership with ].<ref name="RFChina">{{cite web|title=Ruder Finn expands in China with four new accounts|url=http://www.prweekus.com/ruder-finn-expands-in-china-with-four-new-accounts/article/208411/|publisher=PR Week|date=July 26, 2011|access-date=July 3, 2012}}</ref>
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.<ref></ref>


=== 2010's ===
⚫ 2005 - Pro bono work done for the UN raised speculation when ]'s nephew, Kobina, worked as an intern at the firm.<ref> {{WebCite|url=http://www.webcitation.org/5x4IHUMjk|date =2011-03-09}}</ref>
In 2012, Ruder Finn accepted a controversial contract from the ] of ] that was condemned by the ] for organizing a political ] that led to the fall of the first democratically elected ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fury-at-lobbyists-over-lucrative-work-for-brutal-maldives-regime-7718691.html|title=Fury at lobbyists over lucrative work for brutal Maldives regime|first=Oliver|last=Wright|work=The Independent|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304143818if_/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fury-at-lobbyists-over-lucrative-work-for-brutal-maldives-regime-7718691.html|archive-date=March 4, 2020}}</ref> Vice-president of Ruder Finn Tchividjian "admitted there were 'diverse points of views' surrounding the circumstances around the change of government"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/article/1128604/ruder-finn-picks-controversial-maldives-brief/|title=Ruder Finn picks up controversial Maldives brief|first=Matt|last=Cartmell|publisher=PR Week|date=April 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160619195355/https://www.prweek.com/article/1128604/ruder-finn-picks-controversial-maldives-brief|archive-date=June 19, 2016}}</ref> The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group reiterated its call for early elections to be held in the Maldives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecommonwealth.org/news/246248/160412cmag.htm|title=Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) Concluding Statement|date=April 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427125407/http://www.thecommonwealth.org/news/246248/160412cmag.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 27, 2012}}</ref>


The agency has won the ] Bronze Anvils, Big Apple Awards, SABREs and PRWeek Awards.<ref>{{cite news|title=People and Accounts of Note|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/business/media/05adco-webdenda.html?_r=1|newspaper=New York Times|date=July 5, 2012|access-date=July 6, 2012}}</ref><ref name="bronzaanvil">{{cite web|url=http://new.prsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2012BronzeAnvilAwardResults.pdf|title=2012 Bronze Anvil Results|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Public Relations Society of America|access-date=July 5, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Pepsi Takes Home Top Honors at SABRE Awards|url=http://www.holmesreport.com/news-info/10366/Pepsi-Takes-Homes-Top-Honors-At-SABRE-Awards.aspx|publisher=The Holmes Report|date=May 10, 2011|access-date=July 5, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prweek.com/article/1264849/multicultural-marketing-campaign-year-2011|title=2011 PR Week Awards|publisher=PR Week|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910123154/http://www.prweek.com/article/1264849/multicultural-marketing-campaign-year-2011|archive-date=2015-09-10|url-status=dead|access-date=July 6, 2012}}</ref> David Finn received a Big Apple Award.<ref>{{cite news|title=People and Accounts of Note|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/business/media/05adco-webdenda.html?_r=1|newspaper=New York Times|date=June 5, 2006|access-date=July 6, 2012}}</ref>
==The former Yugoslavia, working against the Serbs==


In 2015, Ruder Finn acquired the Japanese business of ], one of the largest independent PR firms in Japan and the first PR agency to be listed on ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prweek.com/article/1353888/ruder-finn-snaps-china-business-japans-kyodo-public-relations|title=Ruder Finn snaps up China business of Japan's Kyodo Public Relations {{!}} PR Week|website=PR Week|access-date=2016-05-19}}</ref>
*On 12 August 1991, the Croatian government hired the American public relations firm Ruder Finn Global Public Affairs to ''"develop and carry out strategies and tactics for communication with members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate as well as with officials of the U.S. government including the State Department, the National Security Council and other relevant agencies and departments of the U.S. government as well as with American and international news media"''. On 12 November 1991, Ruder Finn's contract was renewed to include lobbying in relation to diplomatic recognition, sanctions, and embargoes, as well as briefings for officials of the first Bush administration and preparation of special background material, press releases, both reactive and proactive articles and letters to the editors to appear in major newspapers, briefings for journalists, columnists, and commentators. In January and February 1992, Ruder Finn organized trips to Croatia for U.S. Congressmen. The United States recognized Croatia as an independent state on 7 April 1992


=== 2020's ===
*On 23 June 1992, Izetbegovic's government in Sarajevo in turn ''signed a contract with Ruder Finn in order to promote a stronger leadership role for the United States in the Balkans''. To this end, the agency undertook an impressive array of actions, notably setting up a "Bosnia Crisis Communication Center" in contact with American, British, and French media; media appearance coaching for Bosnian foreign minister Haris Silajdzic; sending press releases to U.S. Congressmen and "Fax Updates" on developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina to over 300 addresses, including the most important world media and parliamentarians; writing 17 letters to be signed by Izetbegovic and Silajdzic and addressed to top world representatives at international conferences; organizing personal contacts between Silajdzic and Al Gore, Margaret Thatcher, and other influential personalities, including 17 U.S. Senators; placing articles on in the editorial pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and so on.
In June 2020, ] ]'s ] city project signed a $1.7 million contract with Ruder Finn to counter criticism and controversies surrounding the project and its founder,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://asiatimes.com/2020/07/saudi-prince-defends-trophy-projects-amid-crisis/|title=Saudi prince defends trophy projects amid crisis|date=2 July 2020|access-date=24 August 2020|website=Asia Times|first=James M.|last=Dorsey|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806135918/https://asiatimes.com/2020/07/saudi-prince-defends-trophy-projects-amid-crisis/|archive-date=6 August 2020}}</ref> such as ], the ], and conflict over forced evictions on ] tribal land.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/saudi-tribesman-killed-resisting-futuristic-city/|title=Saudi tribesman killed resisting MBS backed project
|website=Asia Times|first=Alison Tahmizian|last=Meuse|date=24 April 2020|access-date=24 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430224910/https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/saudi-tribesman-killed-resisting-futuristic-city/|archive-date=30 April 2020}}</ref>


In July 2020, Ruder Finn acquired the video content studio Osmosis Films, headquartered in ], ].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ruder-finn-expands-multi-platform-video-storytelling-capabilities-with-acquisition-of-osmosis-films-301096328.html|title=Ruder Finn Expands Multi-Platform Video Storytelling Capabilities with Acquisition of Osmosis Films |date=2020-07-21|access-date=2020-07-21}}</ref>
*Eighteen months after taking the Croatian contract, Ruder Finn was able to boast to having "developed a reputation as the international public relations agency with the greatest experience and involvement with the crisis in the Balkans. Our work has helped put Ruder Finn on the map in Washington, DC, and internationally." The agency claimed to have gained "dozens of close contacts in Congress and among the news media".


In 2021, ] spent $3.5 million with Ruder Finn according to media reports and public records.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cook |first=Sarah |date=June 27, 2023 |title=China’s Foreign PR Enablers |url=https://thediplomat.com/2023/06/chinas-foreign-pr-enablers/ |access-date=2023-06-28 |website=] |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2023, the two companies ended their partnership.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larkin |first=Ewan |date=30 October 2023 |title=Huawei and Ruder Finn cut ties after nearly three years |url=https://www.prweek.com/article/1845714 |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=PR Week |language=en}}</ref>
*In October 1992, ''Ruder Finn took up the job of public relations for'' the ethnic Albanian separatists in the Serbian province of Kosovo.


In 2021, Ruder Finn was ranked 30th on the Global Top 250 PR Agency Ranking.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Top 250|url=https://www.provokemedia.com/ranking-and-data/global-pr-agency-rankings/2021-pr-agency-rankings/top-250|access-date=2022-01-18|website=www.provokemedia.com|language=en}}</ref>
*In April 1993, French television journalist Jacques Merlino visited the Washington headquarters of Ruder Finn Global Public Affairs to interview the man in charge of the Balkan contracts, James Harff. Merlino asked Harff what he considered his proudest achievement in this operation. The answer: "'''Having succeeded in putting Jewish opinion on our side.'''" The image of both Croats and Bosnian Muslims risked being tarnished by their involvement in the persecution of Jews during World War II. "Our challenge was to turn that around", Harff told Merlino, and this had been done thanks to the "'''camps'''" story.


In October 2023 Ruder Finn was named the PR Agency of the Year. This award was given at the (MM+M), in New York.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Finn |first=Ruder |title=Ruder Finn Named PR Agency of the Year at Medical Marketing & Media Awards 2023 |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ruder-finn-named-pr-agency-of-the-year-at-medical-marketing--media-awards-2023-301949759.html |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=www.prnewswire.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=MM+M |date=2023-07-17 |title=MM+M reveals its 2023 Awards finalists |url=https://www.mmm-online.com/mmm-awards/mmm-reveals-its-2023-awards-finalists/ |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=MM+M - Medical Marketing and Media |language=en-US}}</ref> In the same month, Ruder Finn acquired Pandan Social, a Malaysian firm that was founded in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ruder Finn Acquires Malaysian Digital Agency |url=https://www.provokemedia.com/latest/article/ruder-finn-acquires-malaysian-digital-agency |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=PRovoke Media |language=en}}</ref>
In the first days of August 1992, the Long Island newspaper Newsday published reports from its Bonn correspondent Roy Gutman, based on interviews in Zagreb, telling of horrendous conditions in Serb-run internment camps in Bosnia. '''Seeing the potential impact of comparison with Nazi "death camps", Ruder Finn immediately contacted three major Jewish organizations''', the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the American Jewish Congress, suggesting they publicly protest. They did. ''This launched the demonization of Serbs as the new Nazis''. In 1993, Ruder Finn was awarded the Silver Medal of the Public Relations Society of America in the category "'''crisis communication'''".
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In March 2024, Ruder Finn acquired the digital marketing agency Flightpath.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ruder Finn acquires digital marketing agency Flightpath|url=https://www.prweek.com/article/1864638/ruder-finn-acquires-digital-marketing-agency-flightpath|work=]}}</ref>
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*Had Tuđman lived longer, he would have been possibly brought up on war crimes charges by the UN Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Graham Blewitt, a senior Tribunal prosecutor, told the AFP wire service that "''There would have been sufficient evidence to indict president Tuđman had he still been alive.''" The Tribunal's indictment of Croatian general] lists Tuđman as a key participant in a ''"joint criminal enterprise"'' aimed at the "''permanent removal of the Serb population from the "Krajina" region by killing, force, fear or threat of force, persecution, forced displacement, transfer and deportation, appropriation and destruction of property other minority belongings & means''.,


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Latest revision as of 02:59, 31 December 2024

Public relations firm with co-headquarters in the United States and China
Ruder Finn
Company typePrivate
IndustryCommunications
Public Relations
Marketing
Founded1948
FounderDavid Finn
Bill Ruder
HeadquartersNew York City
Beijing
Area servedGlobal
Key peopleKathy Bloomgarden
(CEO)
Nick Leonard
(managing director, UK)
Elan Shou
(managing director, China)
Atul Sharma
(managing director, India)
Michael Sschubert
(Chief Innovation Officer)
Peggy Walsh
(Chief Operating Officer)
Ian Glover
(Chief Financial Officer)
Tejas Totade
(Chief Technology Officer)
Adeline Phun
(General Manager, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Hilal Khashan
(Managing Director, Norway)
Websitewww.ruderfinn.com Edit this at Wikidata

Ruder Finn is a public relations firm with headquarters in the United States and China. It is a large privately-owned communications agency, serving corporations, governments, and non-profits. It also has offices in San Francisco, London, Washington, D.C., Singapore, and several Indian metro areas including the National Capital Region.

History

Origins: 1948-1960's

Ruder Finn was established in 1948 in New York by David Finn and Bill Ruder.

The firm's first client was country singer Perry Como. Its success at promoting Como attracted more clients in show business, including Dinah Shore and Jack Lemmon. Ruder Finn eventually expanded to represent consumer product companies and government agencies.

In the 1960s through late 1990s, while representing long-time client Philip Morris (now Altria), Ruder Finn was instrumental in crafting the public relations campaign that disputed the evidence tobacco smoking is hazardous to health.

1990's

In the early 1990s, Croatian nationalists initially (and later the Bosnian and Albanian sides) hired the American PR agency Ruder Finn for the “information war.” They unleashed a wave of press releases, press conferences, press materials, and even established a “Bosnia Crisis Communication Center.” The carefully and consciously constructed narrative interpretation by this agency of Serbia as the new Nazi Germany and Slobodan Milosevic as the new Hitler laid the fertile ground on which the very complex civil war – with war crimes committed by all involved parties – could now be distorted and portrayed as a new extermination war and genocide by the Serbs against their own population. The horrors of the terrible massacres and genocides of World War II were invoked, rising like ghosts and overshadowing the current events. The “Račak Massacre,” extensively reported worldwide for days, became a turning point in NATO policy toward Belgrade and changed public perception in Europe and the USA regarding airstrikes on Yugoslavia.

In 1997, Ruder Finn ran the Global Climate Coalition, a group of mainly United States businesses opposing action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In 1998, the firm was caught in a conflict of interest after it was revealed that it represented both the Jewish Agency for Israel and the government of Switzerland. The Jewish Agency's World Jewish Restitution Organization was pursuing a settlement with the Swiss government over its financial dealings during World War II. Ruder Finn responded to this news by severing relations with the Jewish Agency.

In 1999 Ruder Finn established RFI Studios, a digital practice, to help clients protect and build their reputation online. The agency expanded in Asia, establishing offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Singapore, Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.

2000's

In 2005, pro bono work done for the UN raised speculation when Kofi Annan's nephew, Kobina, worked as an intern at the firm.

Kathy Bloomgarden, Finn's daughter, became CEO when he retired in 2011. That year Ruder Finn acquired Thunder Communications, a Chinese event management, brand and marketing consultancy, and formed a partnership with Kyodo Public Relations.

2010's

In 2012, Ruder Finn accepted a controversial contract from the government of Maldives that was condemned by the Commonwealth of Nations for organizing a political coup d'état that led to the fall of the first democratically elected President of the Maldives. Vice-president of Ruder Finn Tchividjian "admitted there were 'diverse points of views' surrounding the circumstances around the change of government" The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group reiterated its call for early elections to be held in the Maldives.

The agency has won the PRSA Bronze Anvils, Big Apple Awards, SABREs and PRWeek Awards. David Finn received a Big Apple Award.

In 2015, Ruder Finn acquired the Japanese business of Kyodo Public Relations, one of the largest independent PR firms in Japan and the first PR agency to be listed on JASDAQ Securities Exchange.

2020's

In June 2020, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Neom city project signed a $1.7 million contract with Ruder Finn to counter criticism and controversies surrounding the project and its founder, such as mass arrests, the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, and conflict over forced evictions on Howeitat tribal land.

In July 2020, Ruder Finn acquired the video content studio Osmosis Films, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

In 2021, Huawei spent $3.5 million with Ruder Finn according to media reports and public records. In 2023, the two companies ended their partnership.

In 2021, Ruder Finn was ranked 30th on the Global Top 250 PR Agency Ranking.

In October 2023 Ruder Finn was named the PR Agency of the Year. This award was given at the Medical Marketing and Media Awards (MM+M), in New York. In the same month, Ruder Finn acquired Pandan Social, a Malaysian firm that was founded in 2018.

In March 2024, Ruder Finn acquired the digital marketing agency Flightpath.

References

  1. "Keeping a legacy alive: CEO puts her stamp on the family business". CNN. 2014-04-17. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
  2. David Finn, The Way Forward: My First Fifty Years at Ruder Finn. New York: Millwood Publishing. 1998. p. 12.
  3. ^ Rifkin, Glenn. "David Finn, Co-Founder of a Public Relations Power, Dies at 100". nytimes.com. New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  4. Ruder & Finn, Inc., "Project 'B': an alternative proposal to project 'A'", September 1995, Tobacco Institute, Bates no. TIMN0004276/4299 Archived June 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Ruder & Finn, Inc., "Public Relations Study for Philip Morris, Inc.", January 1968, Philip Morris, Bates no. 2021280871/0957 Archived June 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  6. Ruder & Finn, Inc., "Preliminary Proposal for a Corporate Affairs Programme", February 1991, Philip Morris France, Bates No. 2500120377/0438 Archived June 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  7. 1,247 documents linking Ruder Finn and Philip Morris at the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library at the University of California, San Francisco Archived June 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
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