The phone rang shortly after 6:30 p.m. It was a Monday night in August and Sam Singer was still at his office in downtown San Francisco, writing and brainstorming strategies for clients. He picked up. The call was from the Chevron refinery in Richmond. They were, they said, “having an issue.” The “issue” was visible as soon as Singer began inching across the Bay Bridge in rush-hour traffic. A massive column of black smoke was climbing into the sky and spreading like a wool blanket over the horizon.

Singer Associates Public Relations is pleased to announce that it is the winner of the 2014 Small Agency of the Year from the Bulldog Reporter, a leading industry trade publication.

Singer Associates Public Relations is pleased to announce that it is the winner of the 2014 Public Affairs Professional of the Year from the Bulldog Reporter, a leading industry trade publication. Our San Francisco-based public relations, public affairs and crisis communications agency earned this award for our work with the City of San Bruno following the fatal 2010 Pacific Gas & Electric Co. pipeline explosion.

The acrid plume billows skyward from the blazing Chevron refinery in Richmond and gathers into an ominous black mushroom cloud looming over the troubled East Bay city. Hundreds of thousands of area residents are ordered by police and safety personnel to flee indoors. Health officials beseech the homebound to hermetically seal themselves within via duct tape and damp cloths. Emergency rooms are, predictably, besieged with 15,000 wheezing locals these MacGyver tactics fail to protect.

Client successes at San Francisco-based Singer Associates in 2013 came at the local and international level.

The Holmes Report nominated Singer Associates for a public affairs award for our work advocating pipeline safety with the City of San Bruno.

Agency of the Year Runner Up For the fifth time in six years, Singer Associates was named runner up for Agency of the Year. This is the eighth time in ten years that the agency has been a finalist for this honor, ranking it consistently as one of the nation’s top public relations and public [...]