COLUMBUS, GA: Aflac has hired PainePR to handle its corporate communications, following a competitive RFP process that began in late February.
Four agencies, including PainePR, were invited to pitch for the account, according to Jon Sullivan, corporate communications manager for Aflac. He declined to comment further on the agencies involved or the budget. There was no incumbent agency.
By coincidence, Sullivan confirmed that agencies were pitching for the account around the time comedian Gilbert Gottfried, then the voice of the Aflac Duck in commercials, ...