Evans Communications, a Salt Lake-based marketing, communications and public relations firm, has reorganized its senior executive staff in three offices and changed the name of each office to EvansGroup.
EvansGroup President and Chief Executive Officer Jon L. Johnson said the goal is to make the company's eight offices "operate more as one entity" and create a unified agency. The company has $200 million in annual billings.In the reorganization, Charles Bartholomew, CEO of the Salt Lake and Denver offices, has replaced Jim Winters, formerly CEO of EvansGroup/Los
Angeles. Winters will become vice president and executive creative director of the Dallas office.
Replacing Bartholomew as CEO of the Salt Lake office is Dave Thomas, who has served as president for the past two years. Ron Stone, formerly executive vice president and creative director in the Salt Lake office, now becomes president and continues as creative director.
Kelli McDonald will continue as president of the Denver office, which will merge with Broyles/
Allebaugh/Davis, Denver's oldest agency, under the Evans-Group name.
Johnson said the Denver merger, the personnel moves and name changes will build a stronger agency and "add realism to our concept of having each of the offices work together and become a single operating entity."
Founded in 1943 in Salt Lake City as Evans Advertising, EvansGroup also has offices in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Phoenix.