Ron Margulis

Ronald Margulis is Managing Director of RAM Communications, a public relations firm based in Cranford, NJ. RAM Communications provides media relations counseling, trade marketing and editorial support to more than a dozen clients, including CHEP, Universal Ad, Ecolab, IGA, Real Time Freight, RW3 Technologies, Carttronics, Nat Sherman, VICS and NCR Teradata. Among the services offered are media relations, information sourcing, speech writing, issue research and analysis, editorial and design analysis, newsletter publishing, presentation and video scripting, marketing brochure and training manual production, focus groups and meeting planning.

With more than 1,000 articles published, Ron is also an accredited journalist. His writings on the food, retail, information technology and transportation industries have appeared in Canadian Business, Chicago Tribune, Convenience Store News, Distribution Channels, FT.com, Food Arts, Forbes, ID, Sales & Marketing, Supermarket News, Washington Times and several other newspapers and magazines. As an editor and reporter, he has interviewed more than 50 CEOs of leading global companies and dozens of government officials including four US Cabinet Secretaries, the Governor of the Bank of England and the Treasurer of Australia. Ron has won numerous awards for his writing, has written more than one dozen industry reports/white papers and is contributing editor of three professional reference books.

Ron has been quoted in several leading newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Philadelphia Inquirer and Smart Money, on topics ranging from technology to crisis communications, and has been featured on Bloomberg Radio, Talk Canada and National Public Radio . He has spoken at numerous business and academic conferences, and is a member of the Council of Logistics Management, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Public Relations Society of America. Ron graduated with honors from George Washington University, earned his MBA in economics from New York University and studied journalism at University of London. The son and grandson of supermarket operators, he also completed a management training internship and meat cutter’s apprenticeship at Wakefern Food Corp. (Shop-Rite Supermarkets).