KeyBank taps Columbia-based Merkle for CRM services

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 24, 2013
Tags: bank, Business, Columbia, financial services, keybank, Marketing, maryland, Merkle

Merkle Inc., of Columbia, a provider of customer relationship marketing services, said it has been selected by KeyBank N.A. to be its direct marketing services provider for building household growth.

Merkle, GMAC sign contract extension

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: March 5, 2013
Tags: breaking news, Business, contract, gmac, Merkle

Merkle Inc., of Columbia, a provider of customer relationship marketing services, said GMAC Insurance, one of the largest automobile insurers in the nation, has signed a contract extension with Merkle for a three-year period, ending in 2016.

Goodell DeVries rallying behind homeless vets

BY: Danny Jacobs
POSTED: May 22, 2011
Tags: benefits, Craig B. Merkle, fundraiser, goodell devries, homeless, Homeless Persons Representation Project Inc., leech & dann, Merkle, military, pro bono, rallying, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, veterans

Left to right: Erica W. Magliocca, Craig B. Merkle, Aaron L. Moore, Deborah C. Parraz and Sidney G. Leech.

The story of how Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann LLP came to be honored last month for its pro bono work with military veterans begins with an email. Craig B. Merkle read a story two years ago in The Daily Record about lawyers helping veterans obtain benefits through a program based at the Homeless Persons [...]

Larry Blum promoted to VP by Merkle

BY: Wayne Countryman
POSTED: February 17, 2011
Tags: Annie Truax, Carrie Rehberg, Carroll Hospital Center, CCS Mid-Atlantic, continental realty, HC DrugFree, Howard County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Advisory Board, Ivan Baran, Joan Webb Scornaienchi, Larry Blum, Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment, Matt McNeeley, Merkle, Planit, Robert White, Steve Beckler

Larry Blum has been promoted to vice president of business development in healthcare and consumer packaged goods practices by Merkle. He most recently led the new business expansion at the Columbia marketing firm’s healthcare practice. Before joining Merkle, Blum was managing partner at Vertical Consulting. He also has been senior vice president of business development [...]

On the move: December 31, 2010

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: December 30, 2010
Tags: Adam Freeland, American Therapeutic Recreation Association, Amy Burke Friedman, Carla Carmichael, Cynthia Fager, Dr. Thomas M. Scalea, GBMC HealthCare, Hord Coplan Macht, Howard County Advisory Board of Family and Children’s Services of Central Maryland, James Gorman, logiclab, Merkle, On the Move, Tom Bowman
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Architecture Hord Coplan Macht, of Baltimore, has promoted Tom Casey, John Harris and Jeff Kreshtool to senior associate. Awards Merkle, a customer relationship marketing agency headquartered in Columbia, and its subsidiary, LogicLab, received Innovation Awards from the Direct Marketing Association during the DMA2010 Conference and Exhibition in October. Merkle’s Customer Engagement Monitor took top honors [...]

Merkle adds Anheuser-Busch, Harley-Davidson to mobile accounts

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: November 8, 2010
Tags: adz2mobile, anheuser-busch, bruce hershey, Columbia, executive, harley-davidson, Merkle, mobile device, mobile marketing

COLUMBIA – Merkle Inc. of Columbia, a provider of customer relationship marketing services, said it has added beer producer Anheuser-Busch Cos. and motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson Inc. to its mobile marketing accounts, and has hired an experienced executive to oversee the portfolio. That executive is Bruce Hershey, former senior vice president of mobile marketing company Adz2Mobile, [...]

On the Move, 11/8: Stults to lead MICA’s new Office of Community Engagement

BY: Wayne Countryman
POSTED: November 8, 2010
Tags: Barclay Greenmount, cushman & wakefield, Howard W. Phillips & Co., Maryland Institute College of Art, Merkle, MICA, Preston Partners, Preston•Scheffenacker Properties

Karen Stults has been named director of engagement by Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore, where she will lead MICA’s new Office of Community Engagement. The office will assess, strengthen and coordinate the school’s academically based community partnerships. Stults had been director of corporate, foundation and government relations. She is a member of the [...]