Retail/Restaurant PR Experts

Kohnstamm strives beyond marketing success, but rather business success. This was never more evident than in its PR work for the Midwest casual dining icon, Green Mill Restaurants. Kohnstamm successfully drove restaurant opening PR programs in ten cities for the chain, and as a result won a rare PRSA BEST IN SHOW award due to the sustained increased revenue outcomes achieved for its client. The company’s co-founders won a prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneurship award in part because their accomplishments were brought to light through public relations.

Results come from experience in this sector, and Kohnstamm’s team has just that — in part thanks to several team member’s work driving PR for Mall of America prior to founding the agency. Experience has been fortified through work for Target Corporation — including speechwriting for SVP level execs — and for the Center for Retail Excellence at St. Thomas. Each year, we work with top retail business reporters nationwide to publicize a new holiday retail forecast study developed at business school.

In hospitality, Kohnstamm’s cleaver press event at the IHMR (hotel/motel/restaurant) Show in New York for Ecolab’s Pest Elimination Division, generated such monster coverage that both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times did major feature stories that fueled interest and sales, among many other news outlets.
 

Client Testimonial

“Kohnstamm really changed how we look at PR… Now PR is first and advertising comes later.”

Todd King, former President, Green Mill Restaurants

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"Kohnstamm Communications provides conclusive proof that a boutique firm of 12 people can consistently get its clients prominent coverage. The myth that clients need a big agency with a New York presence to get top tier media placements has been laid to rest.

The Holmes Report
2007 PR Report Card

Restaurant/Retail

Green Mill Restaurants
Ecolab Pest Elimination Division
Canyon Grille
Target Corporation
Creative Kidstuff
Simply Retail
Center for Retail Excellence (Univ of St. Thomas)