Calling Hasbro

Devorah tells me that Pat Riso, VP of Public Relations at Hasbro, will be making a public statement about Jerusalem and the Monopoly contest tomorrow. Today s/he's supposedly travelling and thus unavailable. Yeah, right.

Anyway, here's the number if you want to call the office and speak with the poor soul who has to answer the phone.

Please... don't embarrass the rest of us by being at all rude.

(413) - 526 - 2307

UPDATE Friday: The Public Relations firm responsible for the promotional contest is apparently called Brazen and is based in Manchester UK. (We cannot help but notice with some interest another of Brazen's clients.)

FAX # is 0161 923 4760

Plus a BtB reader tells us that account director Peter Burling can be reached by email at peter@brazenpr.com

Comments

[aprpeh]

the response to my email: Re: monopoly here and now global edition‏ From: Peter Burling (peter@brazenpr.com) Sent: Wed 2/20/08 10:22 AM Parker Brothers, the makers of board game Monopoly has embarked upon an exercise to find the world’s most popular cities as voted for by the public. It was never our intention to print any countries on the final boards and any online tags were merely used as a geographic reference to help with city selection. This is clearly stated in the terms and conditions of our campaign. We would never want to enter into any political debate. We apologise for any upset this has caused our Monopoly fans and hope that they continue to support their favourite cities, all of which are deserving of a place on our final board - Monopoly Here and Now : The World Edition which will be released in Autumn 2008. The 20 pre-selected cities with the highest worldwide votes on February 29 2008 will make it onto the board. Plus voters will have from February 29 to March 9 2008 to vote on the most nominated Wildcard cities. Only the top two will make it on the board.