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Supplier and Service Company Listings Catapult Action-Biased Marketing 55 Post Rd West Westport, CT 06880 Phone: 203-682-4000 Fax: 203-682-4155 Contact: P. Kramer, Chief Operating Officer Phone: 203-682-4000 Fax: 203-682-4996 E-mail: pkramer@catapultmarketing.com Website: www.catapultmarketing.com Other Offices: Los Angeles, Phoenix, Bentonville, Nashville Account Specific MArketing Marketing Drive 800 Connecticut Ave, 3rd Floor East Norwalk, CT 06854 Contact: Michael Harris, President & CEO Phone: 203-857-6100 E- mail: michael.harris@marketingdrive.com New Business Contact: Dean Williams Phone: 800-659-9439 Email: dean.williams@marketingdrive.com Website: www.marketingdrive.com Year Founded: 1989 Company Description: A full-service promotional marketing agency. Company Statement: Marketing Drive is a promotional marketing agency dedicated to helping our clients realize their brand’s full potential. We do this by driving incrementality. Our trick, discover an unexpected insight or opportunity to translate into a creative idea that goes Boom - simple to say, hard to do. Smart solutions that help brands realize their full potential. Clients: Partial Listing includes: Dannon, ENERGY STAR, ExxonMobil, New Balance, Novartis Consumer Health, Pernod Ricard, and P&G Professional Affiliations: American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), In-store Marketing Institute, and Promotion Marketing Association (PMA) We’ve earned a reputation for our ability to grow our clients’ business, delivering award-winning work, through superior Creative and Strategic leadership. Our innovative marketing solutions provide our clients with 360° solutions through our focused marketing disciplines including: Consumer Promotion Shopper Marketing and Retail Activation Direct Marketing Interactive Experiential Marketing Hispanic Promotional Marketing Media Buying and Planning Consumer Insights and Research See How Far Ideas Can Take You™ is our challenge to ourselves, and to our clients to think differently and constantly innovate. Put us to the test and See How Far Our Ideas Can Take You™! Company Description: A marketing solutions agency using an action-biased approach which incorporates award winning strategy, customer marketing, consumer promotions, merchandising, interactive, direct marketing, and advertising, to increase brand equity and sales. Specialization: Balancing brand communications, consumer messaging and retailer needs. No one knows retail better than us. We look at retail activation not as the end result of our marketing efforts, but as the beginning of a loyal consumer and customer franchise. Catapult is a “client-centric” organization, meaning our world revolves around you, not the other way around. Our Single Point of Client Contac™ model links you with a Key Engagement Manager, whose broad-based experience across a multitude of disciplines ensures that they will not only identify the full spectrum of marketing opportunities available to you, but, more importantly, ensure that those opportunities are fully integrated into your strategy. Clients: CESAR® Brand Food for Dogs, Dannon, Disney, Fosters Wine, Future Brands, Intel, M&M Mars, Pedigree® Brand Food for Dogs, Perdue Chicken, Novartis, Subway Restaurants, Uncle Bens, Reynolds. Company Statement: Catapult is strategically integrated. We influence what people actually do, not merely what they think or say, as the most direct route to increased marketing effectiveness and efficiency. We hire brand savvy, street-smart people who offer a combination of marketing smarts and discipline, combined with a real-world understanding of what will really work at retail. Vertical Marketing Network 15147 Woodlawn Avenue Tustin, CA 92780 Phone: 714-258-2400 Fax: 714-258-2409 Contact: Philip Saifer, President Email: contact@verticalmarketing.net Website: www.verticalmarketing.net Vertical Viewpoint: Strong ASM/co-marketing programs set your brands apart from your competitors. From menu-driven programs to year-long trade partner alliance marketing events, Vertical Marketing Network delivers comprehensive integrated programs that work in each retail account. That is why respected clients/brands including Banquet Homestyle Bakes, Chef Boyardee, Del Monte, Gold-n-Soft, Hunt’s Snack Pack, Nickelodeon, MGM Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment rely on our seasoned professionals to get it done. Competencies: From planning to creative to turnkey execution and ROI/financial reporting, Vertical Marketing Network has the expertise to handle a wide range of retail-specific programs. From simple template programs, chain sweepstakes and in-store events - we take care of the details so you can focus on other business initiatives. See “Agencies” listing for more information. Ryan Partnership 50 Danbury Road Wilton, CT 06897 Phone: 203-210-3195 Fax: 203-210-7926 Contact: Dan Sullivan, President Emerging Business Email: dsullivan@ryanpartnership.com Website: www.ryanpartnership.com Other Offices: Chicago, Columbus, Los Angeles, Dallas, Bentonville Company Description: An innovative brand engagement agency. We build brand ownable ideas that go beyond promotion ideas, creating engaging brand encounters that motivate behavior and deliver compelling ROI - Return On Ideas. 56 November 2008 / www.promomagazine.com / Promo http://www.catapultmarketing.com http://www.marketingdrive.com http://www.catapultmarketing.com http://www.marketingdrive.com http://www.verticalmarketing.net http://www.ryanpartnership.com http://www.verticalmarketing.net http://www.ryanpartnership.com http://www.promomagazine.com

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