Pioneer thinking means making one's own judgments.

Edelman is the world’s leading independent public relations firm, with more than 3,500 employees in 51 offices worldwide. We service clients, not Wall Street. No one owns us, so we are free to think. Independently. To listen, question and evaluate with an open mind unrestrained by conventional wisdom - and then decide for ourselves.

This is what sets Edelman apart.

For more than half a century we have been a creative and thought leader. We were the first firm to apply public relations to building consumer brands. We invented the media tour; created litigation and environmental PR; were the first to use a toll-free consumer hotline, and the first to employ the Web in crisis management.

That's just the beginning. Today we're on a mission: to make public relations the lead discipline in the communications mix, because only public relations has the immediacy and transparency to build credibility and trust.

Edelman was named PRWeek’s “2009 Agency of the Year,” PRWeek’s “Large PR Agency of the Year” (three times in the last four years), and Holmes Report’s “2008 Global Agency of the Year”; and was listed as a top-10 firm by Advertising Age in 2008 and 2007. In 2007, CEO Richard Edelman was honored as “Agency Executive of the Year” by Advertising Age, and he was cited in 2007 and 2008 as “Most Powerful PR Executive” by PRWeek.

Edelman’s network includes specialty firms Blue (advertising), StrategyOne (research) and BioScience Communications (medical education and publishing).

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