Agency led by South Carolina native and 25-year PR veteran expands to Southeast to help regional brands gain national media traction
CHARLESTON, SC — December 1, 2024 — SRPR | Shev Rush Public Relations, the award-winning PR and marketing agency, today announced an expansion to Charleston, SC. Founded in 2005, the agency currently operates in New York City and Los Angeles. It is now opening in founder Shev Rush’s home state to help companies and professionals in the Southeast raise their regional and national profiles in the media.
“As a South Carolina native, it is extremely exciting to return to my roots to work with companies and individuals in this vibrant, dynamic, and beautiful place which also happens to be one of the most business-friendly states in the country,” said Rush. “Also as the fastest-growing state in the country last year, South Carolina is not the same place it was when I moved to the West Coast many years ago. But, it is still home to me, with my parents in Camden and my sister, brother-in-law and nephews in Greenville. I am so looking forward to not only being back on the coast, where I spent summers growing up, but also to hopefully playing a part in the rapid growth and evolution it’s already experiencing.”
SRPR’s Charleston office is at 460 King Street, Suite 200. Current South Carolina-based clients include leading labor solutions provider BDV Solutions and U.S. visa applicant advisory firm Argo Visa.
SRPR has won multiple awards since its founding, including being named one of the Top 5 Small PR Agencies in the country in a survey of 500+ journalists. Shev himself was named one of the top 25 PR practitioners in the country by PRSourceCode and this year was named to the PM360 ELITE 100, which recognizes the most influential people in healthcare marketing, one of the sectors in which SRPR represents clients.
“After successfully architecting media campaigns for several South Carolina companies over the last few years – leading to our clients being named to Inc. Magazine’s Best in Business and Forbes 50 Over 50 lists as well as placements in The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times – I realized this meets a need for many more companies in the Southeast who want national media coverage and exposure,” said Rush.
Rush began his communications career during high school in his hometown of Camden when his interviews with Willem Dafoe, Oliver Stone and Cameron Crowe for his school newspaper were republished by The State, then South Carolina’s largest newspaper. Moving to San Francisco in the early ’90s, his career spanned roles in financial services marketing and then marketing communications at several technology companies during the original dot-com boom.
SRPR’s work has led to projects with global companies such as Google, TripAdvisor, and eBay; notables such as Representative Eva Clayton, the first African-American to represent North Carolina in Congress since 1898; the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark; major universities including Duke, Case Western Reserve, Santa Clara University, and University of San Francisco; and cultural institutions such as The Getty Museum, The Huntington Library, Art Museum & Gardens and The Art Institute of Chicago.
Clients have included life science, pharma and healthcare brands such as LEO Pharma, ConnectiveRx, Parse Biosciences, and ivWatch; nonprofits including The Cleveland Foundation, City of Hope, and Oxfam America; food-related companies and organizations including sustainable food pioneer Bon Appétit Management Company, Equitable Food Initiative, Center for Environmental Farming Systems, Community Alliance for Family Farmers, Lone Mountain Wagyu, and Estancia Beef; and tech and internet companies such as Bigcommerce and Udemy.
Kristin Cobb, also a Camden native, will head the company’s business development efforts in the state. She is a long-time arts administrator, former television journalist, and named one of Columbia’s Top 50 Power Players by The Post & Courier’s Free Times.
About SRPR
SRPR | Shev Rush Public Relations is an award-winning media relations and marketing consultancy founded in 2005. It has been named one of the top 5 boutique PR agencies in the U.S. in a survey of 500 journalists and has placed stories in nearly every top-tier media outlet in the U.S. and many abroad. Its work with trade publications across the healthcare, pharma, biotech, medical device, advertising, and tech industries routinely provides heightened visibility for its clients in those spaces.
SRPR was founded by PR veteran Shev Rush in 2005 and is headquartered in New York City and Los Angeles and serves clients across the U.S. and internationally.
