Wall Street Journal goes inside Papa Murphy’s take and bake pizza system
An excerpt from a Wall Street Journal article: Papa Murphy’s is a 1,360-location pizza chain where customers add ingredients to an uncooked pizza on site and then cook it in their own oven. It shuns, pizza boxes, instead wrapping the pizzas in cellophane in a subtle bid to make it more like a meal. “If you pull something from the refrigerator, it wouldn’t be in a box,” says Ken Calwell, chief executive of Papa Murphy’s International. When consumers “actually turn on and pre-heat the oven, there is something that reminds them of their grandma or mom,” he says. Wall Street […]
by Where O Where Did The Audience Go?
As I was watching Late Night with David Letterman last night, an interview with NY Times columnist Gail Collins got me thinking about from where consumers are getting their news. Letterman asked Collins if he lives until he’s 90, will he still be able to pick up a paper and read the Times. Her response was there is always going to be something he can hold but it may or may not be paper. Then, the two started a chant for “paper, paper, paper…” I am a paper-lover and am probably biased, but I think there will always be a place for […]
by Sue Yannello 
919 Marketing Wins Prestigious National Video Award
Award Spotlights 919 Marketing as Industry Leader To underscore its success as a leader in communications, 919 marketing, a national public relations, marketing, and social media firm, has won the prestigious Telly Award, for an online marketing video it produced for a client. The North Carolina based marketing firm beat out the world’s best in video, film, 3D production and commercial advertising to win the prestigious Bronze Telly Award for Online Video. 919 Marketing partnered with Atlantic Creative Communications to produce the promotional video for Senior Helpers, a national in-home senior care company. “We are honored to receive such a […]
919 Marketing Honored in Inc. Magazine
September 22, 2010 – 919 Marketing Company, a full-service marketing and PR agency, was recently featured as a top 200 marketing and PR firm on Inc. Magazine’s 2010 Inc. 500/5000 List of the nation’s fastest growing private companies. 919 Marketing was highlighted as number 189 among other national firms and number 5 among other NC-based firms in the advertising and marketing industry with a three year revenue growth of 131%. 919 Marketing, similar to other companies in the Inc. 500/5000 list, has faced brutal economic challenges from 2006-2009. Despite those challenges, 919 Marketing was able to rapidly grow because companies […]
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