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Ballantines PR Wins Coveted
Santa Monica Bayside District Account

Third Street Promenade Third Street Promenade at Night

Santa Monica, Calif., August 25, 2009 – Ballantines PR has won the coveted contract to represent downtown Santa Monica’s Bayside District and will oversee all press coverage, events, and interface with Santa Monica’s concerned community. The assignment is well-suited for the local boutique firm with satellite offices in Santa Fe, New York and London.

“We interviewed many of the best PR firms in the area and it was clear that BPR took our needs very personally,” says Debbie Lee, marketing and communications director for Bayside District Corporation. “We are looking forward to working with BPR to highlight Downtown Santa Monica and all it has to offer.”

The first mandate for the PR firm will be to aid and abet The Bayside District’s goal to give Downtown Santa Monica a well-deserved makeover. The overhaul focuses on Third Street Promenade and surrounding areas in order to make the area a clean, welcoming and pleasurable destination. Downtown Santa Monica is a haven for tourists and locals alike and is deserving of the utmost quality control to ensure manageable growth and maximized success.

“Downtown Santa Monica is my backyard. It’s where I take my children to play and shop. It’s an absolute honor to be part of the team that will protect this vital place in our community,” says Sarah Robarts, President/Owner of Ballantines PR.

Ballantines PR is known for producing highly visible, high impact coverage and a long list of personal A-list connections with the North American and international press.

Their credentials and experience include the fields of Travel & Tourism, Fashion, Non-profit/Green Organizations, Entertainment, Politics and Art & Architecture.

Ballantines PR clients past and present include: Governor of New Mexico, State of New Mexico, New Mexico Film Office, Lionsgate, Sony (Pictures and Images), Dreamworks, Hotel Shangri-La, Shutters on the Beach, Government of Kenya, Smythson Beverly Hills, Johannesburg Urban Resort in South Africa, ila Skincare and Spa Treatments and Z-CoiL Footwear.

Media inquiries may be directed to:
Erika Maya
erika@ballantinespr.com
Tel: 310 454 3080
Cell: 310 850 0309
www.ballantinespr.com

NeuroSky Names Ballantines PR Agency of Record

“What if you could control electronic devices with your mind?”
It’s a question seemingly out of science fiction, and yet
NeuroSky has made this far-fetched idea a reality.

SAN JOSE, CA July 27, 2009 – NeuroSky, the world’s leading designers and manufacturers of brain computer interface technology names Los Angeles-based public relations firm Ballatines PR as the agency of record.

NeuroSky is a leading biosensor company, making Brain-Computer Interface technologies available to developers across a wide range of industries. Revolutionary technological advancements developed in-house, add dimension to how users interact with their world, enabling developers to breathe new life into mature products or create new products where the mind is the only limit.

NeuroSky’s proprietary hardware technology, dubbed ThinkGear™ Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology allows wearers to utilize their own brainwaves to interact with technology in ways that were once thought to be improbable. The technology makes it literally possible to send commands to a computer simply by ‘thinking’ about it.

The ThinkGear™ Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology is just coming on the market in toys and games, and is in development for use in a wide range of industries including automotive, education and health and wellness. This is, put simply, technology that will change the world’s relationship with computers forever.

Ballatines PR is one of the world’s leading boutique public relations agencies, with clients in virtually all sectors of business, media and luxury hospitality. Based in Los Angeles, with satellite offices in London, New York and Santa Fe, BPR creates targeted global media solutions that garner effective results. Sarah Robarts, who founded BPR in 2000, is the Principal.

For more information please contact:
Jake Townsend
310 545 2797
jake@ballantinespr.com