NEW YORK: The Dentsu Network has acquired Mitchell Communications Group in the Japanese company's first step in building out a PR network of its own.                              

Mitchell Communications will retain its Fayetteville, AR, home office, as well as its 75 full-time staffers and 28 project-based employees in 14 states. It will also continue to use the Mitchell Communications brand name.

Agency president and CEO Elise Mitchell will remain ...