Cisco Chooses Check Twice as its PR Agency for the Benelux

Cisco Chooses Check Twice as its PR Agency for the Benelux

HOOFDDORP, Netherlands and GHENT, Belgium, May 11, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    - Cisco Consolidates PR Activities in the Benelux Countries

    - Check Twice is a Partnership Between MCS (Netherlands) and Quadrant
Communications (Belgium)

    After a comprehensive selection procedure Cisco has chosen Check Twice as
its PR and communication partner for the Benelux, starting from May 1st 2011.
Check Twice is a partnership between MCS (Monogram Communication Strategies),
headquartered in Hoofddorp (Netherlands) and Quadrant Communications,
headquartered in Ghent (Belgium). Quadrant Communications has been Cisco's
preferred PR partner for Belgium and Luxemburg since the start of 2001. Cisco
will now work with Check Twice to streamline its PR activities for the
Benelux and accommodate them under a single organization.

    "Cisco is focusing on three architectures: borderless networks,
collaboration and data centers/virtualization, and cloud computing," said
Joke van Look, Marketing Director at Cisco Netherlands/Pascale Jacobs,
Marketing Manager at Cisco Belux. "We wanted more streamlined communication
and press information in these focus areas in the Benelux, so we decided to
choose one PR agency for our operations in this part of northern Europe.
Check Twice proved during the selection procedure that the combined
experience of two excellent PR agencies from the Netherlands and Belgium can
give us exactly what we're looking for. With Check Twice on board we can
ensure that, with just one point of contact, our activities are optimally
attuned to the media requirements in each country."

    According to Frank van den Bossche, Director of Check Twice, Cisco's
decision demonstrates that MCS and Quadrant Communications can make an
interesting combination: "Many of our international clients operate within a
Benelux structure and definitely find the best partnership formula at Check
Twice."

    About Check Twice

    Check Twice is a Benelux partnership of two well-known PR agencies: MCS
(Monogram Communication Strategies) in the Netherlands and Quadrant
Communications in Belgium. Thanks to this partnership, Check Twice can
provide the most experienced PR team in the Benelux, with more than 20
specialists in PR, communication and social media. Check Twice offers
full-service PR, customized to the needs of the client and the media. Its
clients include Cisco, Cegeka and PayFair. For more information visit
http://www.checktwice.nl.

Source: Monogram Communication Strategies

Contact persons: Netherlands: Arnout Lansberg, arnout@checktwice.nl, +31(0)23-562-8208;   Belgium: Frank van den Bossche, frank@checktwice.be, +32(0)9-210-5350