PORTLAND, ME – Savvy, Inc., Maine’s preeminent public relations and communications firm, has merged with Boston-based DBMediaStrategies Inc., a renowned PR firm serving corporations, non-profits and medical industry clients.
The combined resources of the two firms will offer clients in both states and the region more services and greater depth, including expert advice on crisis communications, media training, political campaign management and new media techniques (blogging, podcasts and social media).
“Although it serves many business clients, Savvy is best known for its political campaign consulting and management,” said Dennis Bailey, president of Savvy, Inc (www.savvy-inc.com). “DBMediaStrategies is best known for its work with corporate clients, sports teams and the health care industry. It makes sense to merge our firms as a strategy for growth, and offer clients across New England a greater range of services and expertise.”
Doug Bailey, twin brother of Savvy President Dennis Bailey, is the founder of DBMediaStrategies Inc. (www.dbmediastrategies.com). A former business reporter and editor at the Boston Globe, Bailey was senior vice president of Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications Inc. for six years before starting his own firm in 2008. His clients include Cambridge Health Alliance, Arbella Insurance Group, Planet Aid, Hybrivet Systems Inc. and more.
Last year the two brothers received wide publicity when they joined forces to help Casino Free Mass defeat Gov. Deval Patrick’s plans for three Las Vegas-style gambling casinos in Massachusetts.
“DBMediaStrategies has seen phenomenal growth in the last year and more of its clients have needs in Maine and throughout New England,” said Doug Bailey. “And like Maine, Massachusetts frequently has controversial referendum questions on the ballot affecting businesses and taxpayers. Merging with Savvy, Inc. will provide one-stop-shopping for our clients and make our firm a regional player in the PR, corporate communications, government affairs and new media fields.”
Doug and Dennis Bailey are Maine natives with extensive media experience. Dennis Bailey worked as a reporter for several Maine newspapers, including the Lewiston Sun Journal, Maine Times and the Portland Press Herald before entering politics as press secretary for US Congressman Tom Andrews. He later served for six years as communications director for Gov. Angus S. King, Jr. before founding Savvy, Inc. in 2000. He lives in South Freeport with his wife Kristen, vice president of The Moseley Corporation, a food and beverage consulting firm in Franklin, Massachusetts.
Doug Bailey was a reporter for the Journal Tribune in Biddeford and the York County Coast Star before joining the staff of New England Business Magazine in Boston, a Yankee Inc. publication. He later became a business reporter for The Boston Globe and served as the paper’s deputy business editor, political editor and assistant metro editor for health and science. He lives in Newton with his wife Fiona, an editor with The Boston Globe.
The combined firm of Savvy, Inc. and DBMediaStrategies will have about a dozen clients with annual billings approaching $1 million.
CONTACT: Dennis Bailey, 207-347-6077, dennis@savvy-inc.com
Doug Bailey, 617-663-5704, doug@dbmediatrategies.com
