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Ketchum is a global public relations firm, offering marketing, branding, and corporate communications services. Founded on May 22, 1923 by George Ketchum as a Pittsburgh-based advertising company which later evolved to include a public relations practice, the firm currently has 23 offices and 46 affiliates and associations in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Ketchum covers five global practice areas: brand marketing, corporate communications, healthcare, food and nutrition, and technology. In 1996 Ketchum's Pittsburgh-based public relations division was merged into the Omnicom Group with headquarters moving to New York. The advertising division retained the Ketchum name and Pittsburgh headquarters until merging with Earle Palmer Brown in 1999, which granted Omnicom exclusive rights to the Ketchum brand. On June 16, 2009, Ketchum announced a merger with Pleon based in Düsseldorf, Germany and is known as "Ketchum Pleon" in Europe.
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