Stryker
Stryker Corporation
For the past six years, Kwittken & Company has been the agency of record for Stryker Orthopaedics, the largest division of Stryker Corporation (NYSE: SYK) and the world’s largest manufacturer of orthopaedics equipment and instrumentation. Stryker has been repeatedly recognized by Fortune on its Most Admired list, earning the coveted #1 Most Admired Company spot in Medical Products and Equipment. Business Week also named Stryker to its Top 50 Best Business Performers List in 2007.
KCO serves as Stryker’s lead liaison for global business, financial and trade media relations in addition to leading PR initiatives for the division’s high impact product launches including the Jack Nicklaus Trident Hip System campaign, the Triathlon Knee system designed with women in mind and the Cormet Hip Resurfacing System, among others. KCO’s work was recognized with a Bronze Telly Award in 2006 for our broadcast media relations efforts promoting the Triathlon Knee System for women.The agency is also in charge of the Stryker and Stryker Orthopaedic’s issues, crisis management and public affairs dealings with major media and counsels the company on content related to quarterly communications with investors and analysts.
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