NEW HIRES AND NEW BUSINESS AT ESI

Richmond, VA. - Richard J. Scott, president and chief executive officer of Edelmann Scott Inc., (ESI), announces the addition of three new accounts at the agency.

The agency now represents Sentel, a software developer based in Alexandria, VA. Sentel supports government and industry in engineering and information technology. In addition, the agency recently completed an advertising campaign for Anthem Country Club, a premier residential Del Webb community in Las Vegas, NV, which helped generate more than $10 million in property sales in just over three Saturdays. Del Webb is the nation's leading builder of active adult communities and one of the country's largest builders of single family homes.

In new business news, Equivest chose ESI to create graphic elements for its Lightfoot Plantation sales center in Williamsburg. Equivest, headquartered in Greenwich, CT, owns vacation properties throughout the U.S., Caribbean and Europe.

Edelmann Scott, Inc., is one of Richmond's oldest independent full-service advertising, marketing and public relations agencies. Client categories include real estate development, business-to-business, consumer package goods and telecommunications. The agency's core competencies are based upon its heritage of strategic, market-driven planning processes.

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