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'Booming' Birmingham food scene leads Atlanta media firm to open satellite office
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Green Olive Media LLC, an Atlanta-based branding and communications company focused on food, beverage, hotels and hospitality, has opened an office in Birmingham, according to a news release today from the firm.
The new office, located on SouthBridge Parkway in Homewood, will serve the firm's clients in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Texas.
Elizabeth Moore, a Green Olive partner, will help run the new office. "After successfully building relationships and working in the market for a number of years, we are excited to open a satellite office in the city of Birmingham," Moore said in the release.
Birmingham 'up and coming' on food scene
The Magic City is a good location for Green Olive given its growing prominence on the national food scene, according to account executive Megan Brown, a Birmingham native and Auburn University graduate who will also work in the new office.
"Birmingham has been up and coming for a long time, and it's now getting recognized," Brown told AL.com today in a telephone interview. "There are some of the culinary icons that got the scene going, and its booming more recently with some new names and faces. We are excited to take in the history and build on it."
"The guides name Birmingham as the next up-and-coming food city," Brown said. "I think it's great that the national press is taking note of what's going on here."
Location is also a factor. "It's equidistant from Chattanooga and our home base in Atlanta, as well as Mississippi and Florida, and there are good things happening in all of those areas," Brown said.
'Who doesn't love food?'
Founded in 1998, Green Olive also offers design and public relations services and has always had a focus in food, beverage and hospitality.
"Our founders specialized in that from the beginning," Brown said. "It made sense in 1998 with the food scene in Atlanta, and who doesn't love food?"
"We started the company with the goal of specifically focusing on the food, beverage and hospitality industries because that's where our interests were," partner Jeff Moore said in a statement.
Beard Award nominees, winner
Green Olive clients in the South include Galley & Garden restaurant in Birmingham, owned and operated by chef James Boyce, a James Beard Foundation award nominee, and Delta Bistro and Delta Bistropub in Greenwood, Miss., operated by another Beard Foundation nominee, Taylor Bowen Ricketts, the release states.
In Texas, Green Olive works with chef and author Tim Byres, who owns several eateries and won the James Beard Foundation award in 2014.
Brown, who joined Green Olive in 2013, has earned media placements for clients in such national publications as The New York Times, Food & Wine Magazine, Travel & Leisure Magazine, Wall Street Journal and Esquire.
Allison Haber will serve as director of communications for the Birmingham office, according to the release.
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