Members
Companies offering public relations services in Canada with 10 or more employees and annual revenues of at least $1 million are eligible to join the CCPRF.
Member firms include:
APEX Public Relations Voted the 2007 Agency of the Year by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), APEX has been praised by its clients for its expertise in brand marketing and corporate communications, as well as its established media and communications training program.
The agency’s staff maintains a high level of expertise in wide-ranging industries, including the corporate, consumer, fashion and beauty, food and technology sectors. Owner-managed and client-focused, the company is committed to working with clients to deliver business results that matter by leveraging their hands-on senior level staff.
APEX executives played an integral role in the development of the Media Relations Rating Points (MRP) system of evaluating media coverage. APEX President Pat McNamara currently serving as chair of The Canadian Council of Public Relations Firms.
APEX also takes a proactive approach to community involvement with On Your Bike, a foundation established by APEX that holds events to gather and repair bikes for underprivileged children and arrange for their transfer to charitable distribution groups.
Argyle Communications has been one of Canada’s most acclaimed public relations firms for a long time — almost three decades. While some of our talented young consultants have no memories of 1979, the year Argyle was founded, our history and longevity is a constant reminder that great brands — and great reputations — are built over time. While we get great short-term results, we also bring long-term thinking to every client relationship.
Argyle is proud to be a mid-sized, independent, management-owned firm that has earned the trust of some of the world’s biggest brands. Our client list includes major consumer brand names, financial services leaders, technology giants, public companies, associations, all three orders of government in Canada, and several foreign governments and trade organizations.
Argyle is consistently among Canada’s most honoured agencies, with a long list of local, national and international awards from the Canadian Public Relations Society and the International Association of Business Communicators.
Cohn & Wolfe is a strategic communication firm that works with our clients to help achieve their business goals. By providing seasoned perspective, counsel and services, we strive to be seen as an integral part of our clients’ success.
We do so by identifying, understanding and engaging your key stakeholders. Whether they are customers, employees, shareholders, policy-makers or a host of others, these stakeholder groups can have a powerful impact on your brand and business success. Whether they choose to support or resist your organization’s efforts rest primarily on your efforts to communicate with them.
Backed by experience, insights and support of a global network, Cohn & Wolfe has provided expert communications services in Canada for over 20 years. With strategically located offices across Canada, Cohn & Wolfe has a proud Canadian history and dozens of the country’s most creative thinkers.
Founded in 1990, Communications MECA is a national public relations consultancy with offices in Toronto and Montreal and PR networks and colleagues throughout the world. We are a privately held, Canadian,
full service agency representing leading corporations in their pursuit of excellence in business, corporate and social responsibility and reputation.
Our clients value our depth of knowledge, creativity and bilingual, bicultural competencies in marketing communications, consumer healthcare, DTC education and adherence; technology, travel and tourism and the integration of social media.
MECA has earned the A+ Accreditation conferred by the Alliance des cabinets de relations publiques du Québec where our co-owner Carol Levine is a member of the Board. We are proud that our co-owner Esther Buchsbaum was the first Canadian invited to Chair the PRSA Counselor Academy’s spring Conference and sits on the Executive Committee.
MECA’s awards include the prestigious Rx Club of New York Award, the IABC Ovation Award and the Canadian Dermatology Association Award of excellence in Public Education for six consecutive years.
Edelman Canada is an integrated communications firm offering strategic and creative communication solutions across core practice areas including Corporate, Financial & Public Affairs; Issues & Crisis Management; Consumer Marketing; Technology Communications; Health Communications; Digital; and Corporate Social Responsibility. Edelman Canada also provides clients with in-house specialty offerings including creative and design, editorial services, event management, social media planning and media and presentation training.
The firm’s Canadian operations are anchored in seamless client service offered by its more than 130 employees, in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver and through a strong network of affiliate firms operating coast-to-coast. Edelman Canada is a member of the Edelman Worldwide network, the world’s largest independent public relations firm.
Creativity, passion and strategic persuasive communications – these are just a few descriptors that describe DDB Public Relations (DDB PR). With an unwavering dedication to excellence, the team at DDB PR, under the leadership of managing director, Martine Lévy has created ground-breaking PR programs for both internationally-recognized clients and entrepreneurial ventures. A boutique-sized agency armed with the resources of DDB’s worldwide network, DDB PR offers clients the best of both worlds with seamless integration and best-in-class services. DDB Canada’s integrated divisions include: youth marketing, public relations, online and interactive, packaging and design, customer relationship marketing, social media marketing and corporate social responsibility. With offices in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton and Vancouver, DDB PR’s successes have led it to become one of Canada’s most creatively-awarded PR shops.
Fleishman Hillard Canada is a full-service communications, digital and public affairs firm, with expertise in corporate and marketing communications, healthcare and agribusiness, financial and B2B communications, research, government relations and social media. We bring together all the consulting disciplines required to help clients communicate persuasively and powerfully. In short, in a world of competing and sometimes conflicting messages, our job is to help our clients ensure their point of view and messages prevail with the audiences that matter most to them. How do we do this? We listen to you.
With offices in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver our national team can build an approach that truly matches your circumstances. Our firm offers strategic communications counsel to local, national, and international clients. Founded more than 60 years ago, the firm currently operates throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, and South Africa.
GCI Canada is distinguished by our long time client relationships with some of the world’s most well known brands. We enjoy consistently superior client service accolades from our clients. This is driven by our commitment to outstanding client service, practical creativity to drive business or organizational results and nimbleness. GCI Canada is the Canadian arm of GCI Group one of the world’s largest public relations firms.
Our motto is “Change Rules”. We focus on delivering the big (or small idea) that drives change, applying the digital media evolution thoughtfully and staying brilliant with the basics. We offer a full suite of communications services that we execute nationally each day.
We are proud of our work in the community with organizations such as the AIDS Committee of Toronto, the Stephen Lewis Foundation and Little Geeks. We are proud of our commitment to providing our staff with ongoing professional development and challenges so they can continue to exceed our clients’ expectations and remain current.
Harbinger Communications is a marketing consulting and communications company focused on women.
We apply our deep understanding of women to the development and execution of programs that connect women to brands.
MS&L Canada is part of MS&L Group a leading global communications firm, offering the best in public relations, digital, social media, real-time communications, corporate and events communication. MS&L Group provides many of the world’s largest companies and most recognized brands with best-in-class communication strategies to help them reach their business and communication goals.
MS&L Canada is based in Toronto with a satellite office in Montreal and affiliate agencies across the country. We are a full-service firm with consumer, healthcare, corporate, digital, and social media specialists.
Our vision is to be THE champion of communication innovation and transformational ideas. Our clients depend on us for big ideas, superb program execution (in English and French,) responsiveness and industry-leading results.
MS&L has launched some of the largest communications programs in Canada, combining traditional media relations with influencer programs, word of mouth marketing and social media. We lead front-page national news announcements, and provide clients with solid and reliable counsel in high stakes issues management situations.
Media Profile is a full service independent Toronto based public relations firm founded by Patrick Gossage in 1985. We are owned by our senior partners A varied group of former journalists, former political aides and PR veterans serve entertainment clients including CBC English TV and radio, as well as clients in financial services, technology companies, law firms and consulting companies, and provincial government ministries and agencies. We also have a large and varied environmental practice. Our reputation is reinforced by solid media relationships and skills in crisis communications and media and presentation training. Alison King was recently appointed President with Gossage becoming Chairman.
Optimum Public Relations is part of the Cossette Communication Group with offices in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Quebec City plus a global network of affiliate firms including wholly-owned Paine PR in the U.S. and Band & Brown in the U.K. Optimum offers a full suite of services including consumer marketing, corporate communications, B2B marketing, technology communications, crisis management, public affairs and employee engagement. Specialized capabilities include communications training, strategic messaging and editorial services.
As part of the Cossette network, Optimum has access to a full range of leading-edge communication services, including strategic planning and research, advertising, media planning and buying, sales promotion, CRM, database and direct marketing, interactive marketing and technology solutions, alliance marketing, branding and design, ethnic marketing, sports marketing, branded content and product placement. Cossette has approximately 1,650 employees in 12 global offices offering a Convergent CommunicationsTM method that provides clients of all sizes with fully integrated programs across all disciplines.
Established in 2004, Palette Public Relations is a full service Toronto-based agency, and the Canadian PR agency-of-record for several leading global brands. Palette’s specialties include consumer marketing, media relations, corporate communications, sustainability, social media and large-scale special events. They partner with one of Quebec’s premier boutique firms to execute national bilingual campaigns.
From standout product launches to boosting the profile of a company’s products, services or CEO, Palette develops fresh ways to help generate awareness, excitement and most importantly forge long-lasting relationships for an organization and its brands.
Paradigm Public Relations is an independent, full service PR agency with specialized expertise in brand marketing communications. >From food to fashion to financial services, we have worked with some of Canada’s largest companies and brands.
Effective public relations relies on smart, strategic thinking, creativity and a focus on producing results that can be measured against bottom-line objectives. We deliver results by understanding a brand’s communications lifecycle and we have the PR expertise to make each stage a success.
Established in 2007, Paradigm has won multiple national and local awards for its communications campaigns from both IABC and CPRS including IABC Ovation’s Best in Show award.
Porter Novelli is a national public relations agency with a reputation for performance that is built on our ability to understand each client’s entire communications landscape – from opportunities and options to risks and priorities. We serve clients in all areas, including consumer packaged goods, technology, health and nutrition, sustainability and corporate affairs. Our philosophy is simple: Each client organization has important stakeholders who play key roles in determining their success, from employees, customers and partners, to investors and the media. Our role as PR professionals is to help each client identify these stakeholders and to build strong and enduring communications relationships with each.
Strategic Objectives Named one of Canada’s Top Three PR Agencies that Mattered Most by Marketing Magazine, Strategic Objectives builds positive image and reputation for many of Canada and the world’s leading brands, businesses and organizations.
Headquartered in Toronto with associates across Canada, our fluently bilingual team of brand builders creates smart ideas and better solutions that help clients meet and exceed business, marketing and communications objectives.
Winner of more than 100 awards including 11 IPRA Golden World Awards and 18 IABC Gold Quills, Strategic Objectives is recognized world wide for delivering innovative, results-driven PR programming that differentiates and elevates clients in Canada’s highly competitive marketplace.
The only Canadian winner of the exclusive United Nations Grand Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Relations, Strategic Objectives is a leader and pioneer in social marketing and community involvement. A partner in Pinnacle Worldwide, the world’s largest network of independent public relations agencies, Strategic Objectives’ dynamic team of more than 45 PR professionals is dedicated to providing the very highest standards of client service and accountability.
Thornley Fallis Communications and its 76design studio help companies and organizations build relationships with customers, clients and stakeholders by integrating social media with public relations, creative design and word of mouth communications.
We help our clients reach mass audiences through traditional media and targeted audiences through high placement in the new front page of organic search results. We develop social software and interactive sites to connect with and build online communities.
Our services include: media relations, design for Web and print, interactive marketing, social media optimization, copy writing and word of mouth.
Veritas Communications is a national specialty communications organization and a member of the MDC partners network. At Veritas we help our clients grow their businesses by breaking through with below-the-line and social media programs across our three practices: Marketing PR; Corporate and Public Affairs; and Health Education. We live and die by the strength of our people and the big ideas that come from igniting passion and fostering collaboration. We are proud to be the national communications sponsor for Special Olympics Canada. We are also Bullfrog powered. Are you?
