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Berlin, 11 December 2007. The PR and Public Affairs agency Plato Kommunikation with offices in Berlin and Brussels has again extended its client base in 2007. New accounts include the German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVK), the Federation of German Wholesale and Foreign Trade, VGH insurance, Aareal Bank and the Association of European Automobile Clubs in (EAC) in Brussels. Other clients of the agency include Lufthansa, Vodafone, the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany and BerlinPartner.

Hans Bellstedt (44), founder and managing partner of the agency, is retiring from operative business and the group of shareholders after eight years. However, he remains available to the agency and its clients as a consultant. Taking over as the head of Plato Kommunikation on 1 January is Sebastian Fischer-Jung (42). Fischer-Jung has been a member of the Plato management for a year now. In his hands, the agency will be even more strongly oriented to the IT-assisted monitoring of political and medial reports via PLATO-policygate.

Thomas Heilmann, CEO Commarco, thanked Hans Bellstedt for his involvement. 'In the past eight year, Hans Bellstedt has established Plato as a brand in the PR and public affairs market. We are pleased that he has arranged for a convincing successor and that he remains available to Plato as a consultant'.

Commarco is the largest independent German communication and marketing service holding, having evolved from the Scholz & Friends Group. Apart from Scholz & Friends, deepblue networks, gkk DialogGroup, United Visions among others, Plato Kommunikation is a subsidiary of Commarco.

Press contact

Commarco
Nicole Ruhl
Tel  +49(0)40/82 21 95-920
Fax +49(0)40/82 21 95-999
pr@commarco.com

Plato Kommunikation
Tina Kunath
Tel: +49 (0)30/72 62 67 62
tina.kunath@plato.de