Clients
Below is a representative sampling of darbyDarnit's past and current public relations clients:
Professional Services
Hughes & Luce LLP
Hughes & Luce is a 150-attorney full-service law firm with offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin, Texas. darbyDarnit handles media relations and
other strategic communications efforts for the firm.
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw
With more than 1,400 lawyers in seven U.S. and six European cities, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP is
one of the largest law firms in the world. darbyDarnit handles public relations and provides marketing
support for the firm's Houston office.
Heller Ehrman
Heller Ehrman is a national law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in 12 offices across the world and provides clients with a full range of
litigation, business and intellectual property services. darbyDarnit supports the firm's communications team by handling writing projects for the firm.
Jenkens & Gilchrist
Jenkens & Gilchrist, now defunct, was a national law firm based in Dallas with several hundred attorneys practicing more than 20 types of
law from eight strategic locations around the country. darbyDarnit handled media relations for the firm's flagship office
and assisted the firm with other strategic communications endeavors.
Health Care
Stryker Orthopaedics
Stryker Orthopaedics is a global leader in the development, manufacture and sale of orthopaedic products and services.
Stryker Orthopaedics is the largest subsidiary of Stryker Corporation. darbyDarnit supports Stryker Orthopaedics through media promotion
of the company's advancements in joint replacements and surgeons using those advancements to benefit patients in the Houston market.
Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System is the largest hospital system in Texas with 19,000 employees in 16 hospitals and other health facilities.
darbyDarnit handles various writing services for Memorial Hermann, including newsletter articles and executive speeches.
Nexus Health System
Nexus Health Systems provides medical and rehabilitative care to adults and children that have specific health care needs following acute injury and
illness. Based in Houston and founded in 1992, Nexus provides interdisciplinary treatment and specialty care through several facilities in Houston and
Orange, California. darbyDarnit handles public relations writing and media relations efforts for Nexus.
Health Administration Services
Health Administration Services is one of Texas's largest third-party administrators of health benefits services. Founded in
1984, HAS assists employers manage their self-funded health plans more effectively and more cost-efficiently. darbyDarnit
assists HAS with media and community relations efforts, issues management, strategic Web strategy and freelance writing
services.
Chemicals
DuPont
DuPont is a science-based products and services company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a
better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. Operating in more than 70 countries, DuPont offers a wide range of innovative products and services
for markets including agriculture and food; building and construction; communications; and transportation. darbyDarnit is providing several of DuPont's
chemical manufacturing facilities across the country with marketing communications and writing services.
Consumer Products
Cuvee Coffee Roasting Company
Headquartered in Spring, Texas, Cuvee Coffee is a specialty coffee micro-roaster that provides independent coffee houses with sustainable, single origin,
and estate coffees from Africa, South America, and Central America. Each of the coffees is roasted to order in small batches. Cuvee also provides barista
training and sells high-end espresso and brewing equipment.
BLOCKBUSTER
BLOCKBUSTER, founded in 1985 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a leading global provider of in-home movie and game entertainment with approximately
8,000 stores throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. darbyDarnit spearheaded a local promotion and store event for BLOCKBUSTER in conjunction
with the company's celebration of the fourth movie in the Indiana Jones series, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
ReVintage Wood LLC
Headquartered in Telluride, Colorado, ReVintage Wood harvests reclaimed wood from 19th century structures - old barns, dormant railroad yards, and
long-empty manufacturing facilities - then mills and finishes the wood for new commercial and residential design projects. When ReVintage wanted to
expand its services to other markets, the partners selected darbyDarnit and Indivisual Solutions to
create a corporate identity package and marketing outreach materials, including a Web site, logo, promotional pieces, and other strategic items.
Real Estate
Phil Kraus & Associates
Phil Kraus & Associates is a commercial real estate firm based in Wilmington, North Carolina. darbyDarnit is
working with its principal to enhance visibility of his commercial real estate partnership services and
recruit more investors looking to expand their portfolios. darbyDarnit concepted, designed, and provided the content for
InvestWithPartners.com and is handling public relations and marketing
outreach efforts for the campaign.
Castlerock Investment Group
Castlerock Investment Group takes custom homebuilding to a new level. With a presence in Austin, Houston, and northwest Arkansas, this construction
team travels the globe to find fresh and compelling design concepts for their high-end residential developments.darbyDarnit provides corporate identity
and marketing/communications services - everything from branding to Web site copy - for Castlerock and its various properties.
Aviation
Wing Aviation
Wing Aviation is a full-service aviation company specializing in high-quality aircraft charter and management, airframe maintenance, avionics
installation and aircraft painting. Wing Aviation has offices at both Hobby Airport and Lone Star Executive airport in Conroe, Texas. darbyDarnit
serves as strategic communications counsel to Wing Aviation and serves on the company's crisis management team.
Nonprofit
Make-A-Wish Foundation® of America
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a global charity that grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience
with hope, strength, and joy. Initially, the Foundation retained darbyDarnit to write the 2003 annual report. The Foundation continues to enlist
assistance from darbyDarnit for various creative and corporate communications projects. In addition, darbyDarnit provides pro bono communications
services to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast chapter.
HomeBase Youth Services
HomeBase Youth Services addresses the needs of at-risk and homeless youth in Arizona through outreach, medical, independent living, and employment/life
skills programs and more. darbyDarnit provides this client with discounted writing and strategic communications services.
Houston Ballet
The internationally acclaimed Houston Ballet represents America's fourth largest ballet. The New York Times has hailed the Houston Ballet as "one of
the nation's best ballet companies." darbyDarnit provides the Houston Ballet with creative and public relations writing services.
Arizona Students' Association
The Arizona Students' Association is the advocacy arm for Arizona's 120,000 public university students and lobbies on the local, state, and federal
levels on behalf of access and affordability of higher education. darbyDarnit was retained by ASA to handle crisis management and corporate reputation
management efforts after it was found that the organization's former executive director had embezzled funds over the course of several years.
 
Katy Independent School District "Partners in Education"
Katy ISD encompasses 181 square miles just west of downtown Houston. The district is made up of 43 schools, including five high schools, that serve
more than 44,000 students. The school district retained darbyDarnit to provide copy for an annual report for its "Partners in Education" department,
which offers five different programs to involve volunteers in mentoring, business partnership, and other programs.
Marketing/Media
FireSabre Consulting
FireSabre is a full-service building and consulting company for Second Life with particular experience with education and non-profit clients. FireSabre
was part of the first Teen Second Life education project, built the first Teen Second Life school presence, and helped provide K-12 educators with low-cost
access to Second Life. darbyDarnit is helping FireSabre through media relations and strategic marketing communications efforts.
KHOU-TV Channel 11
KHOU-TV Channel 11 is the local CBS affiliate for Houston. The station retained darbyDarnit to handle project management for a 2006 online holiday
giveaway promotion. The station had recently launched a new Web site and was looking to drive traffic to its Web site through a contest for two Plasma
HDTVs. darbyDarnit managed the staffing and logistics issues for the effort.
Bytes of Life
Bytes of Life is a video production and editing company, based in The Woodlands, Texas, that offers corporate and personal video services to capture
history, honor special memories, or pay tribute to achievement. Bytes of Life initially hired darbyDarnit to write a 10-minute video script for the
Houston Region of the Sports Car Club of America's 50th anniversary. Then Bytes of Life retained darbyDarnit to help boost its own visibility in the
media and with strategic marketing to key prospects.
Premier Meeting & Event Management
Premier Meeting & Event Management specializes in strategic and creative event planning for corporate clients of all sizes. Using each client's unique
business goals as a starting point, Premier develops and implements a targeted, service-oriented approach, with an eye on the budget, to make every
event as productive and memorable as possible. Premier retained darbyDarnit for authored article ghost writing and media placement services.
Judy Nichols & Associates
Judy Nichols & Associates is a Houston public relations company. darbyDarnit partners with the agency to support its clients through strategic
communications counsel and writing of media and marketing material and Web site copy.
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