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Insurance for Prizes & Sweepstakes to Interactive/Internet Marketing Specialist Insurance for PrIzes & sweePstakes HCC Specialty Underwriters Inc 401 Edgewater Place, Suite 400 Wakefield, MA 01880 Phone: 800‑927‑6306 Fax: 781‑994‑6001 Contact: Mark L. Barry, Senior Vice President Global Marketing Email: mbarry@hccsu.com Website: www.hccsu.com Company Description: We provide a variety of inno‑ vative specialty insurance products to take the risk out of a great promotional idea. Company Statement: Tap into the secret behind promotion success stories that are legendary and let us be your back room! Get the promotion experience and products that will add maximum impact to your programs with minimal impact on your budget: Winsurance ‑ A real insurance policy that lets you offer an enormous prize for a cost that’s only a frac‑ tion of the prize amount. Instabond ‑ Use our online system to quickly and simply obtain and file Game of Chance Surety Bonds. Eliminate the hassle and get the lowest rates available. Errors & Omissions Policies ‑ Insurance to protect your company or agency from a big liability when a good idea takes a bad turn. Redemption Insurance ‑ Coverage for big losses when your idea catches the imagination of more people than you ever imagined. Promotion Risk Management Consulting ‑ Support that lets you/or your clients reduce risks while reap‑ ing the rewards of a great promotional idea. SCA Promotions Inc 8300 Douglas Avenue, 6th Floor Dallas, TX 75225 Phone: (888) 860‑3700 Email: scainfo@scapromo.com Website: www.scapromotions.com SCA is the leading provider of promotional risk cover‑ age for agencies and marketers worldwide, awarding over $157 million in cash and prizes. For over 21 years, SCA has worked as the “behind‑the‑scenes” partner to create attention‑grabbing offline and online promotions. Our specialty is working with you to design prize offers that generate brand awareness and consumer action. For a fixed fee that’s just a fraction of the prize value, you can offer consumers the chance to win life‑changing prizes. When there’s a winner, SCA gives you the prize money to award your winner. Contact us for a free Prize Promotions Idea Kit. On‑Pack/In‑Pack Offers Direct Mail Programs Sports Contests Online Games Kiosk Promotions Special Event Promotions Trade Show Traffic Builders Radio and Media Promotions Retail and Mall Promotions Specialization: Balancing brand communica‑ tions, 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 avail‑ able 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 understand‑ ing of what will really work at retail. SUPPLIERS AND SERVICE COMPANIES InteractIve/Internet MarketIng sPecIalIst Digitas 355 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10010 Contact: Jackie Stone, Vice President, Group Director Email: jstone@digitas.com Website: www.digitas.com Offices: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York Company Description: Publicis’ Digitas ‑ ranked Promotion Agency of the Year in PROMO Maga‑ zine’s 2007 Top 100 ‑ is a leading digital marketing agency, helping the world’s biggest brands develop, engage and profit from building profitable relation‑ ships with their customers. The Agency pairs media, marketing, technology, creativity, imagination and analytics to ignite emotional bonds between people and brands. Digitas is winner of Promotional Market‑ ing Association’s 2005 Super Reggie and PROMO Magazine’s 2005 Best Overall Interactive Marketing Promotion, as well as multiple 2006 Reggie’s and many other awards. Promotions Practice: Digitas’ Promotions group utilizes the full range of Digitas capabilities and leverages entertainment content and lifestyle based affinities to build and optimize relationships with targeted/segmented customers and prospects over time. Representative Clients: American Express, General Motors, Pfizer, InterContinental Hotels Group, Sam‑ sung, IBM, Whirlpool Odds On Promotions 6195 Ridgeview Court, Suite D Reno, NV 89519 Phone: 888‑827‑2249 Fax: 775‑828‑6013 Email: oopinfo@oddsonpromotions.com Website: www.oddsonpromotions.com Company Description: Eliminate risk and get big‑ ger results with “A‑” rated prize indemnity coverage for your sports, media, fundraising, show/event and consumer product promotions. When you have a winner, Odds On pays! 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 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. 80 November 2008 / www.promomagazine.com / Promo http://www.scapromotions.com http://www.hccsu.com http://www.scapromotions.com http://www.hccsu.com http://www.digitas.com http://www.catapultmarketing.com http://www.oddsonpromotions.com http://www.catapultmarketing.com http://www.oddsonpromotions.com http://www.promomagazine.com

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