By Joshua Burd
Public relations and marketing firm Beckerman, which represents many of the state’s top real estate companies, is touting a banner year after seeing 21 percent growth in 2017.
The agency said Wednesday that year-over-year growth in top-line revenue and profitability amounted to its strongest year over two decades in business. Based in Hackensack, the firm said the jump is a result of steady growth in its real estate and energy technology practices, along with the introduction and development of additional practice areas such as life sciences, real estate technology, smart mobility and an emerging technologies group.
Beckerman is the parent company of Beckerman PR, Antenna, Eco Branding, Paul & Zakheim Associates and Chicago Digital.
“Our growth is a testament to the commitment and dedication of the totality of our team, from executives to interns and everything in between,” Keith Zakheim, CEO of Beckerman and Antenna, said in a prepared statement. “Our commitment to professional, personal and spiritual growth remains unchanged and is the lynchpin of our success.
“It is our clients that inspire us to continually improve and expand our service offerings, and our growth this year is a reflection of that commitment. 2018 promises to be another banner year for Beckerman, as we continue to add brilliant, hard-working professionals to our team.”
The milestone follows Antenna’s recent acquisition of Eco Branding, a merger that created North America’s largest full-service agency dedicated to clean technology. This past year, Beckerman also expanded its public relations, marketing communications, social, digital, creative, web, event and public affairs services.
Beckerman also touted the promotions of Denyse Dabrowski to managing director, Christa Segalini to executive vice president, Kim Setliff Barnes to senior vice president, Sharon Golubchik to vice president of life sciences, Jake Rozmaryn to vice president of business development, Kyle Kirkpatrick to vice president and Jessica Orsini to corporate director of human resources.
