In April 2008, a private banker at JPMorgan Chase visited her prized clients, Anita and Rajat Gupta, at their home in Westport, Conn., an elegant waterfront estate that was once owned by the retail executive J.C. Penney.
Omnicom's most prized clients include PepsiCo and Apple, while Publicis handles marketing campaigns for Coca-Cola and Samsung, raising questions over whether clients would be happy to stay with a firm which represented its competition.
Just more than a week after Goldman Sachs offered its most prized clients a chance to invest in Facebook, the firm on Monday withdrew the opportunity from clients in the United States because of worries that the deal could run afoul of securities regulations.
Both groups say they wish to protect investors who have suffered at the hands of mutual funds that made special trading arrangements for prized institutional clients.
It's only 25 acres, but the grapes are highly prized by clients like Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon, Abe Schoener of Scholium Project and Turley Wine Cellars.
Joe Gold, whose beachfront "Mecca of bodybuilding" in California led to a worldwide net of health-and-fitness muscle gyms, with Arnold Schwarzenegger among its prize clients, died Sunday in Marina Del Rey, in suburban Los Angeles.
The Nassar Investment Company, the Palestinian economy's biggest exporter, had an urgent $100,000 order from a prized new client.
Buddy, who becomes Felix's full-time chauffeur and part-time sidekick, can never tell if, at any given moment, his prize client will show rage, charm, sorrow or plain old backwoods American weirdness.
The London Gateway port insisted that there was still "huge momentum" around the Essex facility despite the blow of prize client, retailer Marks & Spencer, abandoning plans to build a new £200m distribution centre on the site.
So it went with David Lonner, whose prize client is the director J. J. Abrams, and Alan Gasmer, whose long list of writers and directors includes Nicholas Meyer, a filmmaker with credits, like Mr. Abrams, on various "Star Trek" films.
After Kitty Kelley, author of unauthorized biographies, announced in 1983 that she was taking aim at Mr. Solters's prize client, Sinatra, the publicist castigated her as "modern mud-slinging's miniscule mistress of malice".
