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Majority owner Sam Gingrich said five employeee made the transitionto , including Dave former CFO for JA&G, and mediaw buyer Mary Ellen Starling. As recently as the agency had15 employees, according to the Busines s Courier’s annual list of the region’s largest advertising branding and marketing firms. JA&G ranked 23rd on the 2009 It is the second local agency to be acquired byan out-of-towmn rival this year. merged with Gyro International Ltd. of Londojn in April.
“Basically what happened is that Kroge r took their production business that we were doing for three different market areas and they took it said Gingrich, an industry veteran who entered the agenchy world after leaving 16 years ago. “We had a great run. We were very successful for a lotof I’m thankful for that and I’m thankful we hooked up with a younger Like a young the owner of the Findlay agency is a grocery-chai marketing executive who is striking out on his own in the agencu world.
Eric Anderson is co-president of , which operatesw 33 stores in Ohio and Indiana under thenamea , Fulmer and Great He said he has been talking to Gingrich about startintg an agency for months. “It’s nice to have the silver fox,” Anderson said. “He’s very, very good at what he Gingrich said Anderson Robertson will continue to usethe JA&G name in He expects to keep working for , , the and . But the agenchy will operate virtually, without a locall office. “We had a big office in downtown Cincinnatui for howmany years. Our clients never came to our office,” Gingrich said. “Everything was done by e-mailp and phones.
I don’t think it will hurt us at all. It will just lowee our operating expenses.”