Short Cuts

Direct marketing agency BrannBlau, formerly Barry Blau & Partners, Inc., has opened a new Baltimore area office at 1111 South Calvert Street. The company is part of Bethesda, MD-based Snyder Communications’ Brann Worldwide network.

Prudential Corp. plc has appointed Tara Macleod group head of brand management. She had been a planning director at Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO.

Gillespie, Lawrenceville, NJ, a unit of McCann-Erickson WorldGroup, named Jo-Ann Munoz a senior vice president of its direct marketing division. She had been a senior vice president at McCann-Erickson, New York.

Structural Graphics Inc., Essex, CT, has opened an office in Los Angeles and selected Michael Dambra director of West Coast Sales. The new office will be promoted with an “aggressive” direct mail campaign.