"Mmd" merges with "Grayling" and "Trimedia International" to create one new global PR company

- Company "Mmd", consulting agency for public relations, relations with public institutions and network of social media in central, east and southeast Europe and Euro-Asia, announced on Friday (August 28, 2009) that it was going to merge with "Grayling" and "Trimedia International" to create new global leader in that domain - people from Serbia-based branch office of "Mmd" announced.

Each of these companies is a member of mother company "Huntsworth Plc".

According to the announcement, in addition to company "Mmd", which operates in 19 countries, the new giant will also comprise "Greyling" – the company with great offer of services in field of relations with public institutions in the offices in London and Brussels, as well as rich offer and experience in the domain of communication programmes for new investments in north America and the Pacific, including China - and "Trimedia International" - Western European consulting network for public relations, which is present in more than 11 European countries.

The new company will be the world's third largest independent PR company, its combined incomes will reach the amount of 80m USD, and it will have 830 employees. The company will have offices in 44 countries all around the world, and it will be producing 44% of all incomes of "Huntsworth" group.

The name of the new company will be "Grayling", which is recognizable and respectable name on three continents. "Mmd" will merge with "Grayling" prior to January 2010, but it will keep its name until then. Michael Murphy, currently CEO of "Trimedia International", will become the CEO of the merged company at the global level.