Dickinson in Florida

Dickinson Direct has opened outposts in Port Richie, Fla., and Bohemia, N.Y., the direct marketing firm’s first expansion beyond New England.

“We wanted to have more of a national presence,” said Reed Dickinson, executive vice president of the Braintree, Mass., agency.

The 200-person direct marketing company is staffing two people in New York and another in Florida.

Eric Kushins, who heads up the New York office, spent eight years as senior account executive at Japs-Olson Co. in St.