The Door Announces Major Expansion Of West Coast Operations

NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Door, the powerhouse lifestyle, culinary, and hospitality public-relations and marketing agency that was acquired earlier this year by Dolphin Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLPN), announced today a significant expansion of its West Coast operations with the signing of five new California-based culinary brands as clients and the addition of a senior executive to its Los Angeles office.

"Based on the level of incoming interest and the many positive conversations taking place daily in our Los Angeles office, we see this as just the beginning of a major West Coast expansion for The Door," said Lois Najarian O'Neill, president of The Door. 

The Door's new West Coast clients include LA hospitality visionaries Marc Rose and Med Abrous, the owners of The Spare Room at the Roosevelt Hotel, Winsome, and the iconic Genghis Cohen; Fiona, a new, all-day cafe and bakery launched by acclaimed LA chef and award-winning pie pro Nicole Rucker with culinary collaborator chef Shawn Pham; Go Get Em Tiger, an expansive group of L.A. coffee shops founded by industry vets Kyle Glanville and Charles Babinski; Puesto, a Mexico City-born and rooted in Southern California taco establishment which reached national acclaim thanks to Executive Chef/Partner Luisteen Gonzalez and Executive Creative Chef Katy Smith; and Love & Salt, an Italian-inspired restaurant offering Southern California soul by Chef Chris Feldmeier just steps away from the Manhattan Beach Pier.

To help service the new clients, PR Director Autumn Lewis, a culinary specialist currently working out of The Door's New York offices, will be relocating to Los Angeles office this month to join The Door's West Coast team led by Senior Vice President Erika Gable.

The Door's West Coast client roster already includes The Viceroy Hotel Santa Monica and The Viceroy L'Hermitage Beverly Hills; Freedman's, which recently landed on Bon Appetit's Hot 10 list of the best new restaurants of 2018; and the LA outpost of the beloved comfort food restaurant Yardbird Southern Table & Bar, among others.

About Dolphin Entertainment, Inc.  
Dolphin Entertainment is a leading independent entertainment marketing and premium content development company. Through our subsidiaries 42West and The Door, we provide expert strategic marketing and publicity services to many of the top brands, both individual and corporate, in the entertainment and hospitality industries. The Door and 42West are both recognized global leaders in PR services for their respective industries and, in December 2017, the New York Observer listed them, respectively, as the third and fourth most powerful PR firms of any kind in the United States. Dolphin's recent acquisition of Viewpoint Creative adds full-service creative branding and production capabilities to our marketing group.  Dolphin's legacy content production business, founded by Emmy-nominated CEO Bill O'Dowd, has produced multiple feature films and award-winning digital series.

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