Macali Communications Opens Marketing & Communications Company Focuses on Golf Business & Marketing

February 15, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Sports News
(PRLEAP.COM)(Chicago, IL)Kevin Donnellon has established Macali Communications, a marketing and communications company that focuses on golf businesses as well as companies and brands maximizing their business through golf marketing.

Macali offers clients extensive golf and communications experience from major campaigns with important and successful organizations including: Gatorade, Wilson, Lands' End, Sears, Brunswick, Prince Sports, Miller Brewing Co and Quaker Oats.

“I have an expertise and passion for the dynamic golf business, along with a depth and breadth of marketing communications knowledge and skills,” says Kevin Donnellon, president of Macali Communications. “Concentrating in the golf business makes our team a special asset to our clients. Our golf expertise will allow them to quickly understand and produce results in this exciting, multibillion- dollar industry.”

Donnellon has been recognized with multiple industry and client awards for strategic and creative thinking and client fulfillment. He founded and grew Donnellon Public Relations into a respected, independent mid-sized agency. Donnellon began his career at Procter & Gamble, and was Vice President of Communications at Wilson Sports Co. He held account management positions with Burson-Marsteller and Ketchum Communications in New York and Golin/Harris Communications in Chicago.

He is a member of the National Golf Foundation, Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, American Marketing Association, Golf Writers’ Association of America and National Sports Marketing Network. He is past president of the Evans Caddie Scholarship Foundation Alumni Association and past member of the Executive Committee of the Western Golf Association. Donnellon is a board member of the St. Vincent DePaul Center in Chicago.

Donnellon is a graduate of The Ohio State University, where he was a Chick Evans Scholar. He lives in Chicago with his two daughters. He is an avid golfer, pianist and reader of biographies, classics and history books. For more information, review www.macalicomm.com. Kevin can be reached at kevin@macalicomm.com.

Contact:
Kevin Donnellon
(312) 560-8065

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