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>> About Mills & Company
Company History
Founded in 2004, Mills & Company, Inc. is a leading public relations
and marketing agency based in Boston, MA.
Mills & Company stands out by adhering to a simple principle—successful
communication is achieved through "intelligent listening." Through
research, analysis, careful planning, and above all, listening, we come
to understand our clients' fundamentals. We use that knowledge, along
with decades of media and communications experience, to craft effective
strategies that yield measurable results—improved brand recognition,
increased credibility in the marketplace, and visibility among key audiences.
About the Founder
Scott Farmelant, President
Scott Farmelant has more than 20 years experience
practicing the communications arts as a public relations executive/strategist
and, formerly, as an award-winning investigative journalist.
Mr. Farmelant provides strategic counsel and communications services to
corporate, real estate, medical, legal and hospitality clients, as well
as individuals, guiding them through complex communications decisions.
As a crisis communications practitioner, Mr. Farmelant successfully assists
clients with public response to a wide range of unanticipated emergencies,
including property accidents, worksite accidents, law enforcement action,
natural disaster, reported terror threats and on-site murders.
Mr. Farmelant provides numerous clients with strategic media relations
counsel that yield measurable results. His strategies have led to
acquired media in a variety of leading outlets, including The Wall
Street Journal, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, National Public
Radio, CNN, NBC Nightly News, and ABC's "Good Morning America."
Mr. Farmelant also provides strategic counsel to top-level real
estate development executives to help them move projects through
local community approval processes. Prior to forming Mills & Company,
Mr. Farmelant provided strategic consultation and campaign management
services to the New England Patriots ownership when it sought approval
for a $350 million stadium in Foxboro, MA in 1999. A successful community
relations campaign resulted in nine-to-one approval of the necessary
zoning changes for construction of Gillette Stadium.
Mr. Farmelant has provided strategic consultation on a number of
successful public information campaigns. Prior to forming Mills & Company,
he consulted with the Alliance for Better Schools in its successful
drive to maintain standardized tests as a requirement for high school
graduation in Massachusetts and a created the strategy behind a highly
visible community-relations program on the South Shore of Massachusetts
that led to final approval for the $780 million Greenbush Commuter
Rail Line.
As a journalist, Mr. Farmelant wrote for a number of publications, including
the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, Boston Business Journal,
Improper Bostonian and Philadelphia City Paper. During his career, he
earned awards for investigative reporting, political writing and public
service journalism.
Mr. Farmelant earned his bachelor's degree from Brandeis University and
a master's degree from the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse
University. He is married to Alison Mills. They have a daughter, Lily,
and a son, Maxwell.
Strategic Partners
Mills & Company maintains an extensive network of strategic partners with
expertise in dozens of marketing and communications' specialties, including:
- Branding
- Graphic Design
- Government Relations
- High Technology
- Life Sciences Communications
- Luxury Marketing
- Photography
- Sports & Entertainment Marketing
- Website Development
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