As corporate communications director for Air Travel Card, Rob Volmer parlayed relationships made there into Crosby~Volmer's entrée into the travel industry. Maintaining those relationships, and many more keep C-V at the forefront of this exciting global industry.

How do you give an avocado an identity. How do you give a shriveled green fruit sex appeal, and more importantly how do you distinguish California avocados among avocados.

Crosby~Volmer did it with a couple of national promotions that landed California avocados on The Today Show, CNN, Los Angeles Times and NBC Nightly News. And through a sticker labeling system that identified individual avocados as "California Avocados" gaining a brand with success much like that of Chiquita bananas.

A philanthropic watchdog seeks to promote its work, and differentiate itself in a city swimming with think tanks, Capital Research Center turned to Crosby~Volmer. By highlighting CRC's four monthly publications, C-V continues to garner media attention monthly from radio, television, print and online outlets.

Making CEC synonymous with class and sophistication in the aftermarket auto industry was the charge for Crosby~Volmer. Millions of media impressions and hits in luxury magazines later - mission accomplished.

The Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma owns and operates over 50 companies and Crosby~Volmer works with the biggest of these. Riverwind and WinStar casinos are two of the state's largest and offer Vegas-style gaming and entertainment. WinStar Golf Course is the newest in a state great in championship tracks, and Bedre Chocolates can be found, along with thousands of calories, exclusively at Neiman Marcus. Comprehensive public relations for all can be found at Crosby~Volmer.

The CEIEC chose Crosby~Volmer for its aggressive communications strategy that focused on public relations to launch Solo multimedia players to a crowded U.S. market. The boys at C-V landed over 70 media product reviews resulting in 56 articles including excellent reviews in Business Week, Forbes, Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. The Solo didn't have to go it alone.

Oklahoma has established itself as a major league city and Crosby~Volmer has assisted greatly in anyone further North of Edmond knowing about it. C-V continues to help generate substantial national and international media attention for the city, and Mayor Mick Cornett.

An association of electronic associations, the EIA is a virtual who's who when it comes to electronics and electronic industry issues. Crosby~Volmer has a long history of communications counsel and strategy for the EIA including awareness, branding, policy and membership initiatives.

Few know luxury hotels like Crosby~Volmer, just check our partner's expense accounts. Honestly C-V has created media events for some of the great hotels and their renovations and re-launches. The Embassy Suites in Delray Beach, FL is the latest with a complete overhaul and spa addition to an already elegant resort complex. C-V is involved in everything from naming to branding to promoting the latest in beachfront luxury.

As the environmental arm of the Electronic Industries Alliance, the EIC uses Crosby~Volmer to partner in environmental, recycling, legislative and awareness initiatives.

Senegal is one of many countries who have turned to Crosby~Volmer for strategic messaging and comprehensive communications plans both in the U.S. and abroad.

A historic renovation restored the Grand Dame of Washington hotels to glory and the Hay-Adams enlisted Crosby~Volmer to orchestrate the triumphant grand re-opening. A Travel Channel feature ranking the Hay-Adams as No. 2 on their "10 Best Hotels list, articles in Architectural Digest, Washingtonian Magazine, Institutional Investor, Conde Nast and Travel later, the Hay-Adams is running at over 90 percent occupancy and is a fixture on the AAA's Four Diamond and Mobils Four Star Awards lists.

Issue advocacy has always been a Crosby~Volmer long suit, so when Honda needed to push an environmental agenda on Capitol Hill, they left the driving to us. A "Ride and Drive" promotion jump started the highly successful awareness campaign.

An alliance that works as an arm of the Electronic Industries Alliance, Crosby~Volmer promotes awareness and prevention initiatives concerning internet and personal security issues.

Crosby~Volmer provides strategic communications counsel and has developed and executed comprehensive public relations plans for the Ministry of Education in Japan.

Limbs for Life is in business to help people. Crosby~Volmer is in business to help Limbs for Life help people. A national non-profit organization that provide prosthetics to people who can't afford them, Limbs for Life uses every spare penny for arms and legs. Raising their national profile, which in-turn raises more funds, is the leg C-V gives Limbs for Life to stand on. It is a labor of love.

Crosby~Volmer has a long history with Lufthansa, one of the world's most recognized and respected airlines. C-V has worked with Lufthansa on everything from communications strategy and public relations campaigns to special projects and cross-promotions.

A luxurious hideaway in Coconut Grove is how Crosby~Volmer positioned this exemplary boutique hotel. It's a fine line between awareness and "every day" so C-V played up the quality and uniqueness of the Mayfair to position it as a special stop when hanging out or doing business at the beach.

Like a lot of start-up companies, Media Excel was a technology company with large company public relations needs and limited marketing budget. Crosby~Volmer believed in Media Excel, helped launch the Austin based company and has grown with it providing comprehensive public relations services.

With virtually every terrestrial radio and television station in the country as its membership, the National Association of Broadcasters knows something about communicating with a mass audience. When these professional communicators were looking for professional communicators to craft their national public relations initiatives, they called on Crosby~Volmer who has provided counsel on everything from corporate re-structuring to local market initiatives to issue advocacy to media outreach.

When the National Beer Wholesalers called for public relations services, we said throw us the church key, we're in. And so began Crosby~Volmer's love affair with beer. OK, so we loved beer already, but just like we do with all our clients, we pride ourselves in the extensive research done to get to know our partners, and believe me, we know the NBWA. We provide comprehensive public relations plans to the NBWA including public service campaigns, state association initiatives, issue advocacy as well as brand and awareness programs among others.

We'll admit it, human resources outsourcing is about as dry as week-old bread. But the way Nextep does it prompted the swashbuckling Crosby~Volmer to get on board. Nextep handles HR duties for over 200 companies, allowing each of them to give full-time to their core competencies, but an emphasis on the human side of human resources is what sets them apart - and what C-V is telling the world. Practicing what they preach, Nextep was voted "Best Place to Work" in Oklahoma last year. Hopefully Crosby and Volmer are paying attention.

When it's mission critical, Panther Expedite delivers, same day to anywhere in North America. At Crosby~Volmer we like to call it "Panthertime." Unlike other delivery companies, many who use Panther for critical time-sensitive drops and boast $200 million ad budgets, Panther called on Crosby~Volmer to deliver its messages to markets with special shipping needs. Houston - we have no problem.

We like games at Crosby~Volmer. And if the game is fun and competitive and helps kids, society in general and the economy, we like them even more. SAS Games and its TiViTz game is another company Crosby~Volmer teamed with early on because we believed in the product and its ability to change people's lives, and we liked playing it as well. C-V is now engineering the TiViTz brand through consumer market launches in the United States, Europe, Japan and Korea.

Public relations and creative services designed to create awareness and generate website traffic was the goal of Crosby~Volmer and Sensors Unlimited who were introducing an innovative product to a very targeted market. The efforts produced roughly a billion media impressions and increased web traffic exponentially for the company.

To go where no man has gone before. Space Adventures, the first, and world's leading space flight experience company needed a public relations driven launch. No public relations firm had ever done a space flight experience launch, but Crosby~Volmer was adventurous enough to make one giant leap for pr. The company took a huge lead in the space race as C-V efforts put Space Adventures on CNN, The Today Show and the BBC, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Associated Press internationally. A $20 million dollar contract was signed for the initial civilian space traveler and over two billion media impressions were realized.

Crosby~Volmer has long been associated with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through both pro bono and professional services efforts throughout the year. Mardi Gras For Kids, one of the foundation's major fund raising events has relied on Crosby~Volmer for print collaterals and public relations services on numerous occasions. And being just down the street, C-V is always willing to get involved in whatever project is under way.

With a new and effective approach to consulting, a branded system and several Fortune 500 clients in hand, Strong•Leader had a lot of positive momentum for a young company. Crosby~Volmer built on that momentum with an awareness strategy that continues to create positive brand perceptions and reliability in the minds of decision makers while establishing the company as an industry leader.

A difficult process to explain in an elevator speech, C-V highlighted the company's unique makeup (West Point grads) and correlated it to their execution management offering as a way to differentiate the company and promote its process as first-in-market.

Crosby~Volmer has provided communications strategy and counsel and worked on special projects periodically for The Prudential.

Founding and establishing a new association is a lot of work which is why the World Alliance for Decentralized Energy called on Crosby~Volmer for the heavy lifting. With a strong roster of associations, Crosby Volmer's extensive experience has been invaluable to WADE as they build from the ground up. Branding, awareness and membership initiatives have been forefront in C-V efforts.