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Barbara Wellnitz, APR Recognized for
Professional Achievement
Named to Public
Relations Society of America College of Fellows
Barbara Wellnitz, APR (Accredited
in Public Relations), President of Ryan Wellnitz & Associates,
Foxboro, Massachusetts, has been elected to the College of Fellows
of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) (www.prsa.org).
Chartered in 1947 and based in New York City, PRSA is the world’s
largest organization of public relations professionals, with nearly
20,000 members in 114 chapters.
Ryan Wellnitz & Associates is a
business-to-business marketing public relations firm serving clients
in the manufacturing, professional services and financial services
sectors.
Ms. Wellnitz entered the
profession in 1984 when she joined Creamer Dickson Basford (CDB),
Providence, Rhode Island, then New England headquarters of a
national PR firm headquartered in New York City. After a series of
mergers, the firm is now part of Magnet Communications, New York
City. Prior to joining CDB, she was Manager of the Systems and
Services Publications Department at The Foxboro Company, Foxboro,
now Invensys PLC. Invensys is a global manufacturer of automation
and industrial and process control systems and equipment. Before
that, she was a reporter for the
Attleboro Sun
Chronicle and
Foxboro Reporter.
PRSA’s College of Fellows was
established in 1989 to recognize those who “have made significant
contributions to our profession,” said Vivian M. Hamilton, 2005
Chair, College of Fellows, and President, Hamilton Public Relations,
Eagle River, Arkansas. Two dozen professionals are being inducted
in 2005 for professional achievement, contributions to the
advancement of the profession, and service to society. The
induction ceremony will take place in Miami in October.
Ms. Wellnitz has also earned the
APR designation from PRSA, and is past President of the Society’s
Boston chapter. She is a graduate of Green Mountain College,
Poultney, Vermont, which she serves as Chair of the Board of
Trustees, and she earned the C.S.S. graduate certificate in
administration and management from Harvard University.
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Strategic Alliances: A Win-Win for
Clients and Agencies
Strategic alliance can
be more than just a catchy slogan.
Over the past year,
Ryan Wellnitz & Associates has joined with three communications firms
to conduct national public relations programs for these market
leaders:
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Emhart® Teknologies,
New Haven, Conn., a Black & Decker subsidiary and manufacturer of
POP rivets and other fasteners and fastening systems and devices.
Emhart is a client of Catalyst, Warwick, R.I., a company dedicated
to improving the profitability of its 20 client companies through
the development and implementation of marketing communications
programs;
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Hardinge, Elmira,
N.Y., a manufacturer of machine tools for milling, turning, grinding
and workholding applications. Hardinge is a client of GoldsmithPR,
Lincoln, Mass., a communications firm focusing on client goals,
setting appropriate strategies and using the right tools to achieve
success;
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Tuition Plan
Consortium, a group of 240-plus independent colleges and
universities formed to institute Independent 529 Plan, the only one
of these college-tuition financing programs to be run by and for
private institutions, and the only one with a national scope. TPC is
a client of Dick Jones Communications, State College, Pa., which
helps colleges and universities build support among key publications
through national media relations.
The programs for Emhart
and Hardinge focus on editorial coverage of the clients’ products,
technologies, and applications success in the national trade
publications that reach their markets. The program for Tuition Plan
Consortium is designed to help attract new member colleges and to
inform parents and others concerned with children’s college education
about the benefits of Independent 529 Plan.
Independent 529 Plan (www.independent529plan.com)
allows you to lock in tuition costs at a discount from today's prices,
free from federal taxes. The Plan is administered by TIAA-CREF Tuition
Financing Inc., the nation's largest pension fund manager with over
$300 billion in assets. Currently, TIAA-CREF manages 12
state-sponsored 529 plans in addition to Independent 529 Plan.
Ryan Wellnitz & Associates is a
public relations and investor relations firm based in Foxboro,
Massachusetts, serving high-technology and industrial corporations,
financial services organizations and professional service firms. The
firm’s services range from writing and design projects to trade and
business media relations, trade show support, and integrated marketing
and corporate communications programs.
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Ryan Wellnitz & Associates Selected as
Agency of Record by Bank of Fall River
Ryan Wellnitz & Associates was
selected as agency of record by the Bank of Fall River, one year ago,
to develop and implement an integrated marketing communications
program for the Bank, including advertising, public relations and
direct marketing. The agency was selected to represent the bank
following an agency review, because of Ryan Wellnitz & Associates’
experience in the financial services sector.
Ryan Wellnitz & Associates has
conceived and developed the Bank’s broadcast and print ad campaign
promoting totally free checking, CDs, residential mortgages,
commercial and auto loans, and the Bank of Fall River’s “Outstanding”
rating on its Community Reinvestment Act Performance Evaluation. The
agency also is conducting a community relations program on the Bank’s
behalf as part of the program for 2005.
The Bank of Fall River
(www.bankoffallriver.com),
chartered in 1888, is an independent bank with four full-service
offices in Fall River, Fairhaven, and North Dighton-Taunton. The Bank
of Fall River has total assets of $151.2 million.
Ryan Wellnitz & Associates is a
public relations and investor relations firm, serving manufacturers of
technology and engineered products, professional services firms and
financial services institutions. The firm’s services include writing
and editorial placement, Web-based mass and direct communication,
advertising, collateral literature (digital and printed), and trade
show support.
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Ryan Wellnitz & Associates selected to represent
Cuming Corporation
Ryan Wellnitz &
Associates, Foxboro, Mass., has been selected as the marketing
communications firm for the Flotation and Insulation Division of
Cuming Corporation, Avon, Mass., which manufactures insulated pipe
used in offshore drilling of petroleum and natural gas.
The communications
program will be designed to increase the visibility of Cuming
Corporation
(www.cumingcorp.com) in the domestic and European
markets. Activity will include editorial outreach to such
publications as Pipeline & Gas Journal and Upstream; support of the
company’s participation in major, international trade shows; and
direct-communication vehicles to customers and prospects.
Cuming Corporation
manufactures such advanced materials as syntactic foam flotation and
insulation in plants in Avon and New Iberia, La., and assembles it
into insulated pipe for offshore oil and gas drilling. Some recent
company activity includes shipping C-FLOAT buoys for deepwater anchor
systems in the Gulf of Mexico and Shell’s announcement that its subsea
flowline in the Gulf of Mexico, which is coated by Cuming’s C-THERM
syntactics foam insulation is now operational.
Ryan Wellnitz & Associates is a
public relations and investor relations firm based in Foxboro,
Massachusetts, serving high-technology and industrial corporations,
financial services organizations and professional service firms. The
firm’s services range from writing and design projects to trade and
business media relations, trade show support, and integrated marketing
and corporate communications programs.
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Insulet Corporation Names Ryan Wellnitz &
Associates Public Relations Counsel
Insulet Corporation of
Bedford, Mass. has named Ryan Wellnitz & Associates as its corporate
and marketing public relations firm for the launch of its OmniPod®
Insulin Management System.
Insulet designs,
develops and manufactures patented insulin infusion systems for people
with diabetes. Its scientific, engineering and management team
includes professionals with extensive experience in the healthcare
industry, including insulin pump technology, diabetes healthcare, drug
delivery, high volume manufacturing, and quality and regulatory
affairs. Insulet has designed the new OmniPod™ Insulin Management
System, which brings together benefits of continuous subcutaneous
insulin delivery with blood glucose monitoring technology in a safe,
convenient, and discreet two-part system.
Ryan Wellnitz &
Associates is a public relations and investor relations firm, serving
manufacturers of technology and engineered products and professional
and financial services firms. The firm’s services include writing and
editorial placement, Web-based mass and direct communication,
advertising, collateral literature (digital and printed), and trade
show support.
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Ryan Wellnitz & Associates Named Agency of
Record by BrandPartners
Ryan
Wellnitz & Associates
has been named public relations agency of record by BrandPartners
Retail, Inc., formerly Willey Brothers, Inc., of Rochester, N.H.
BrandPartners is a professional services firm that provides an
integrated approach to physical environments through business
strategy, design-build services, retail display and in-store
communications products and services, from concept and design through
implementation and training.
BrandPartners, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of BrandPartners Group, Inc., selected Ryan Wellnitz &
Associates because of the agency’s many years of experience with
clients in the financial services sector and its writing and media
relations capabilities. BrandPartners has worked with 1,600 clients at
more than 24,000 retail locations worldwide – most of them in the
financial services sector.
Ryan Wellnitz & Associates, based
in Foxboro, Mass., is a public relations and investor relations firm,
serving manufacturers of technology and engineered products,
professional services firms, and financial services organizations. The
firm’s services include writing and editorial placement, Web-based
mass and direct communication, advertising, collateral literature
(digital and printed), and trade show support.
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Barbara Wellnitz Elected Chair of the Board
of Trustees of Green Mountain College
Foxboro, Massachusetts
Resident First Woman
to Head Trustees in
College's 169-Year History
POULTNEY, Vt., July 9, 2003 –– For the first time in Green Mountain
College's 169-year history, the Board of Trustees has elected a woman
as chair of the board, Barbara Wellnitz of Foxboro, Mass. An alumna
and trustee since 1998, she will serve a three-year term, effective
July 1.
Wellnitz chaired the 2002 presidential search committee that hired
John F. (Jack) Brennan as president of Green Mountain College,
Poultney, Vt. She is president of Ryan Wellnitz & Associates, a public
relations firm based in Foxboro.
She attained an A.A. degree in liberal arts when Green Mountain
College was a two-year women’s college. She earned a B.A. in English
from Upsala College and the CSS graduate diploma in management from
Harvard University.
She also earned the APR professional certification from the Public
Relations Society of America (PRSA), is president of the Society’s
Boston chapter during 2003, and is a member of the PRSA Counselors
Academy.
Wellnitz has a long history of volunteer involvement at Green Mountain
College. In 1986, she was elected to the Alumni Board of Directors and
served as president of that board between 1994 and 1996. In 1998, she
was elected to the Board of Trustees. She was honored in 1999 with the
Distinguished Service Award, an annual award given to an alumnus for
service to the college and professional achievement.
"The profound impact the college has had on my life drives my
commitment," Wellnitz said. "I am honored to be elected by my peers on
the board of trustees, and to be the first woman to chair the board,
particularly that of my alma mater,"
About Green Mountain College
Founded in 1834, Green Mountain College is a co-educational liberal
arts college with a distinct focus on environmental issues. Green
Mountain College offers 25 majors to its 700 students who come from 35
states and 20 countries. Since re-focusing its mission on the
environmental liberal arts program (ELAP), the college’s innovative
curriculum has drawn widespread recognition from national media
outlets, including National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, The
Boston Globe, USA Today, Rolling Stone, the Associated Press, and The
Environment Magazine.
About Ryan Wellnitz & Associates
Ryan Wellnitz & Associates is a public relations and investor
relations firm, with offices in Foxboro, Massachusetts, and
Barrington, Rhode Island, serving high-technology and industrial
corporations, financial services organizations and professional
service firms. The firm’s services range from writing and design
projects to trade and business media relations, trade show support,
and integrated marketing and corporate communications programs.
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Boston Chapter, Public Relations Society of America
Elects New President
Barbara Wellnitz, APR, to Direct Chapter’s Activities in 2003
(Boston, Mass., December 9, 2002)
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Foxboro resident and
businesswoman Barbara Wellnitz has been elected president of the
Boston chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).
Wellnitz, who is president and co-founder of the Foxboro-based public
relations firm Ryan Wellnitz & Associates, will lead a board of eight
officers who will direct the programs and initiatives for the
chapter’s 425 members in the coming year.
Barbara has served on PRSA Boston’s Board of Directors since 1998, is
a founding member of the Independent Practitioners Network of PRSA
Boston, and is also a member of the PRSA Counselors Academy.
"Being selected by members of PRSA Boston to lead the organization in
the coming year is truly an honor," Wellnitz said. "As companies large
and small work through the current economic climate, an effective
marketing and public relations campaign can mean the difference
between profitability and loss of revenues. PRSA Boston provides
members with a forum to share ideas and strategies that can help their
clients position themselves in their respective markets. We will work
to ensure our events continue to be of value to our members and, in
turn, their clients."
Barbara brings more than 20 years of corporate and agency experience
to PRSA Boston. Founded in 1994, Ryan Wellnitz & Associates (www.ryanwellnitz.com)
specializes in business-to-business public relations and investor
relations for clients in the manufacturing, professional services,
technology, and financial services sectors. Earlier, she was vice
president/group manager at the New York-based Creamer Dickson Basford
(now part of Magnet Communications), where she managed the agency's
business-to-business accounts.
Barbara earned a B.A.degree in English. She also earned the C.S.S.
graduate diploma from Harvard University, with a concentration in
marketing management. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Green
Mountain College, where she recently chaired the Presidential Search
Committee and currently chairs the Admissions and Marketing committee.
She was the 1999 recipient of the College's Distinguished Service
Award, given each year to an alumna or alumnus of Green Mountain
College.
About PRSA Boston
The Boston Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America is one
of 112 PRSA chapters located across the country. Nationally, PRSA has
more than 18,000 members who agree to follow a Code of Professional
Standards set forth by the Society. The Code sets comprehensive
standards for the practice of public relations in accordance with the
public interest, and to be performed with honesty, integrity, accuracy
and truth. In Boston, more than 425 professionals are members of PRSA,
making it one of the largest - and oldest - chapters in the country.
Boston membership reflects National
membership and is composed of public relations agencies, non-profit
organizations, corporations and sole practitioners. The Boston Chapter
of PRSA (www.prsaboston.org)
operates under the guidance of a volunteer board of directors and 13
committees. Local members receive a host of benefits that complement
those provided by the National organization.
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Ryan Wellnitz & Associates Honored
by Regional Publicity Club
BARRINGTON, R.I. (August 9, 2002)
– Ryan Wellnitz & Associates, Barrington,
R.I., and Woodard & Curran, Portland, Maine, have won the Publicity
Club of New England’s Merit Award in the Newsletter category for the
publication
WaterWatch.
The award was presented during the Pub Club’s annual Bell Ringer
Awards Ceremony.
Woodard & Curran is an environmental
consulting firm that specializes in municipal water and wastewater;
industrial waste; hazardous waste; solid waste; operations and
management; information management and automation; and environmental
studies and permitting. Each edition of
WaterWatch
focuses on one aspect of water supply management in Massachusetts.
Topics have addressed water supply security, managing development, and
using Internet resources to better manage and protect water bodies.
The articles include input from Woodard & Curran project managers,
government officials and environmental advocacy groups, with the goal
of creating an open forum for the exchange of viewpoints and ideas on
how to address important environmental issues Massachusetts
communities face.
Issues are mailed to municipal officials who
have the power to recommend and hire Woodard & Curran for a project,
including town managers and DPW directors. State regulators and
environmental advocacy groups are also on the mailing list.
"Although still a relatively new
publication," says Althea Masterson, Marketing Manager, Woodard &
Curran, "the response from our target audiences has been very
positive, and we are considering expanding its focus beyond
Massachusetts to all of New England."
This is the first Bell Ringer Award the
Woodard & Curran – Ryan Wellnitz & Associates team has won, and
the fourth Ryan Wellnitz & Associates has
won in the last three years.
"We have been serving Woodard & Curran since
1994, and are proud of our role in helping grow the company into one
of the country’s leading environmental services firms," said Hugh Ryan, President, Ryan Wellnitz & Associates. "We
launched
WaterWatch
in 2000, and having it recognized by the Publicity Club of New England
is a rewarding way to celebrate the publication’s third year."
RW&A also won a
Merit Award in the Marketing Communications category for its work with
Fruitt Communications on behalf of Boston-based Working Values Group.
Woodard & Curran
Woodard & Curran is an environmental
consulting firm with a staff of more than 450 integrating services in
engineering, science and operations. The firm specializes in municipal
water and wastewater; industrial waste; hazardous waste; solid waste;
operations and management; information management and automation; and
environmental studies and permitting. Woodard & Curran has offices in
Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Florida, and
Illinois, and operates treatment facilities nationwide.
Ryan Wellnitz & Associates
Ryan Wellnitz & Associates provides investor
relations and business-to-business marketing and public relations
services to manufacturers of engineered, industrial and high tech
products and to financial services and professional services
organizations.
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Third
Paperback Printing Ordered for Financial Advice Book
WealthBuilding
earns visibility on amazon.com
BARRINGTON, R.I., May 14, 2002 — A
financial-planning advice book based on true-life case histories has been rushed
to a third paperback printing by publisher John Wiley & Sons, New York City.
WealthBuilding:
Investment strategies for retirement & estate planning
sold out its first paperback printing in less than two weeks and registered
second among business and finance top-sellers on amazon.com, causing a second
printing. After a bulk purchase by Office Max, a third printing was ordered.
The authors are David Reiser, M.S., C.F.P.; Robert DiColo, CLU, ChFC, CIMC;
Hugh Ryan, and Andrea Reiser. David Reiser and DiColo manage the Reiser and
DiColo Retirement and Estate Planning Group at UBS PaineWebber in Providence,
where both are Senior Vice Presidents.
Ryan is Co-President of Ryan Wellnitz & Associates,
Barrington, a public relations and investor relations firm. Andrea Reiser is
President of Image Communications, Barrington, a graphic design firm.
The book was published in hard cover by John Wiley &
Sons in December 2000, and updated in paperback in March 2002, taking into
account changes resulting from the tax cut driven by the Bush Administration.
wealthbuilding
has been reviewed by one of amazon.com's Top 10 Reviewers, and the attention and
visibility that the book has earned on this virtual bookstore has been an
important ingredient of its success, says Debra Englander, its editor at Wiley.
David Reiser and DiColo provided the substance of the book, drawing on
thirty-one real-life case histories, based anonymously on their clients, and
Ryan and Andrea Reiser were the editorial team. The authors use the case
histories to explain and illustrate a recommended approach for an individual or
family to take charge of their personal finances and work toward their idea of
wealth.
Between them Dave Reiser and DiColo have been
interviewed on more than 100 broadcast programs on ABC-TV, CNN, CNBC, and other
national and regional networks, as well as by newspapers, including USA Today
and the Business Section of the Providence Journal, and business, investing, and
financial trade magazines.
Andrea Reiser conceived the idea of the book and
suggested to Dave Reiser and DiColo that they ask Ryan to write it. She and Ryan
worked together at the Providence public relations firm, Creamer Dickson Basford.
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Green Mountain College Names Barbara Wellnitz
to Chair Presidential Search Committee
Foxboro, Mass. Resident
Heads Public and Investor Relations Firm
FOXBORO, Mass., May 6, 2002 — The Board of Trustees of
Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont, has appointed alumna and trustee
Barbara Wellnitz as Chair of its Presidential Search Committee. Wellnitz earned
an A.A. degree in liberal arts when Green Mountain College was a two-year
women’s college. She is president of Ryan Wellnitz &
Associates, a public relations and investor relations firm based in Foxboro,
Mass.
Wellnitz will chair the 11-person committee charged with
recruiting a successor to outgoing president Thomas L. Benson, Ph.D., whose
resignation takes effect at the end of 2002. The committee is made up of
representatives from the college’s faculty and staff, student body, alumni and
trustees.
Wellnitz has a long history of active
volunteer involvement with her alma mater. In 1986, she was elected to the
Alumni Board of Directors, serving as president between 1994 and 1996. In 1998,
she was named to the Board of Trustees. She was honored in 1999 with the
Distinguished Service Award, an annual award given to an alumnus/a for service
to the college and professional achievement. Wellnitz says the profound impact
the College has had on her life drives her commitment.
She received a B.A. in English from Upsala
College and a graduate certificate in business administration from Harvard
University. She earned the A.P.R. professional certification from the Public
Relations Society of America (PRSA), is President-elect of the Society’s Boston
chapter, and is a member of the PRSA Counselors Academy.
Founded in 1834, Green Mountain College is
a co-educational liberal arts college with a special focus on environmental
issues. The college offers 25 majors to its 650 students, who come from 35
states and 20 countries. Since re-focusing its mission on the environmental
liberal arts, the college's innovative curriculum has drawn widespread
recognition from national media outlets, including National Public Radio's All
Things Considered, USA Today, The Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, and E-The
Environmental Magazine. For more information, visit www.greenmtn.edu.
Ryan Wellnitz & Associates is
a public relations and investor relations firm, with offices in Foxboro, Mass.,
and Barrington, R.I., serving high-technology and industrial corporations,
financial services organizations and professional service firms. The firm's
services range from writing and design projects to trade and business media
relations, trade show support, and integrated marketing and corporate-financial
communications programs.
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Ryan Wellnitz
& Associates Honored by Regional Publicity Club
Foxboro, Mass. (June 14, 2001)
– Ryan Wellnitz &
Associates and Norton
Company, a global leader in engineered abrasives, have won the Publicity Club of
New England’s Merit Award in Special Events for the Grinding Technology Forum
at Norton last October.
The two-day
forum brought 100 decision-makers from large corporations among Norton’s
customer and prospect base to the Higgins Grinding Technology Center in
Worcester for seminars on the selection and use of advanced, engineered
abrasives.
Barbara Wellnitz,
President, Ryan
Wellnitz & Associates, said
the event generated immediate sales opportunities, and the Norton sales force
predicted that more opportunities will ensue. The forum also generated editorial
coverage in several trade publications.
"We work with all our
clients to develop and implement a wide variety of marketing and communications
strategies to maintain and build their customer bases, as well as generate a
steady stream of publicity in the business and relevant trade media" said
Wellnitz. "Customer education has a legitimate place in the marketing mix
for a company that is solution oriented. We supplement media liaison and trade
show support with innovative uses of the Internet and special events such as
this forum to position our clients as leaders in their respective
industries."
The Higgins
Grinding Technology Center serves as both a research facility for Norton and its
parent company, Saint-Gobain Abrasives, and technology resource for
manufacturing customers. Major markets for abrasives include automotive,
aerospace, sporting goods, farm and highway equipment, woodworking, steel,
semiconductors and medical devices.
"In manufacturing,
maximizing the effective use of advanced grinding wheels, coated abrasives and
superabrasives can have a significant impact on the bottom line," said
Barry Cole, Manager, Communications, Advertising and Public Relations, Saint-Gobain
Abrasives, North America.
"Industrial leaders that
use abrasives made of ceramics, synthetic diamonds and other advanced materials
understand those products’ complexity," he said. "They know the
importance of selecting and applying them correctly for optimum manufacturing
productivity and quality. We designed this event to help educate our customers
and prospects."
This is the second Bell Ringer
award the Ryan Wellnitz & Associates - Norton team has won in the last three
years. The first award recognized the successful launch of Norton’s AVOS
product line.
About Ryan Wellnitz & Associates
Ryan Wellnitz & Associates
provides investor relations and business-to-business marketing and public
relations services to manufacturers of engineered, industrial and high tech
products, software developers, as well as financial and professional services
firms.
About Norton Company
A leading supplier of
abrasives since 1885, Norton Company provides a full line of coated, bonded,
superabrasives and Bear-Tex® non-woven products. Norton Company is part of the
Saint-Gobain Abrasives Group. Saint-Gobain is one of the world's 100 largest
industrial companies. Founded in 1665, Saint-Gobain is a $26.6 billion world
leader in engineered materials. Headquartered in Paris, Saint-Gobain employs
approximately 171,000 people and has manufacturing operations in more than 45
countries.
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