Atlanta Business Chronicle 3/21/08
by Giannina Smith

Who got what

Cohn, Overstreet & Parrish has added EAU Technologies and Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center, a nonprofit provider of educational arts programming, to its client roster.

Kitsy Rose Public Relations added three new accounts, including POP!, a handmade frozen confection, Knitch, a boutique in Virginia-Highland, and clothing line Chickadees.

Devonwood Media is now doing national and regional public relations and media strategy for Atlanta-based financial services firm GlassRatner.

Arketi Group was chosen as public relations firm of record for Atlanta-based bigWebApps, a provider of Web-based help desk and customer support solutions, and Virtual Premise, a provider of real estate information management software.

Church's Chicken has tapped public relations firm m strategies inc. as its agency of record.

Public relations firm Trevelino/Keller Communications Group added Air2Web and Asankya Inc. to its technology practice.

360 Media Inc. will be handling public relations for several new clients, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in Alpharetta, the Rites of Spring Festival at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in April and the Crocs Next Step Campus Tour Invades College Campuses event this spring.

Event

Radio station 790 The Zone will be part of the programming at this year's Central Atlanta Progress Annual/Atlanta Downtown Improvement District meeting on March 26. The Zone guest emcees will include personalities Mike Bell, Chuck Oliver and "Hometeam" Brandon Leak from "The Afternoon Saloon" radio show.

The emcees will interview Marynell Meadors, coach of the new Atlanta Dream basketball team of the WNBA, and Georgia State University Athletics Director Mary McElroy. Originally scheduled to take place at 8 a.m. in the Thomas Murphy Ballroom of the Georgia World Congress Center, the event's location may change due to damage from the March 15 tornado that struck Atlanta.

For more information, visit www.atlantadowntown.com.