By PRWeek Staff In 2014, revenue at Singer Associates doubled to $9 million from $4.5 million in 2013. The agency’s profit climbed to 26% in 2014 from 20% the year prior. The firm achieved this impressive growth while tackling difficult and high-profile issues for clients including helping Chevron win out over fraudulent litigation in Ecuador. ... Read More >

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.