| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Jennifer Candelario |
Chief Information Officer | Profile |
Christopher Kief |
Head of Technology | Profile |
We are a privately held, family-owned newspaper with approximately 1,200 associates in many fields such as accounting, advertising, circulation, editorial, engineering/maintenance, information services, marketing, production, security, and human resources.
We bring together people and platforms with the sole mission of helping brands and organizations become culturally relevant. Drawing upon dozens of data sources, global scouts, experts, creators, and advisors in real-time, we radically improve the speed and relevance of creative ideas, product development, and innovation, helping brands and organizations react, adapt, and propel themselves into the future.
Propelled BrandsTM is the multi-brand platform company under which service industry franchise brands operate and grow. Our family of brands includes FASTSIGNS®, NerdsToGo®, MY SALON Suite® and Salon Plaza®, all of which have found tremendous success in their respective industries. FASTSIGNS is the leader in the $29 Billion sign industry, while NerdsToGo is a growing franchise organization in the IT services business. MY SALON Suite and Salon Plaza (Suite Management Franchising, LLC) are a principal leader in the rapidly growing salons and beauty services sector and are on the way to becoming one of the nation`s largest salon suite franchisors. We are excited to help them reach even greater heights as we move into the future. We know franchising, we love franchisees, and we have a supportive, motivating culture. Propelled Brands started with acquiring FASTSIGNS and built a network with extremely high franchisee satisfaction, yearly improvements in franchisee profitability, and strong financial benchmarks and net promoter scores. We bring the same strategy, culture, and discipline to every company we partner with while also enriching the lives of their franchisees.
As a global ideas shop, our mission is to create ideas that are humanly relevant. gyro is Advertising Age`s 2016 B-to-B Agency of the Year and the BMA`s 2016 Global B-to-B Agency of the Year. Our 600 creative minds in 14 offices work with top companies, including Aflac, Danone, eBay, Google, HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Jabra, John Deere, Tate & Lyle, TD Ameritrade, Teva, USG and Vodafone.
Founded in 2004, Q1Media serves national, regional, and local brands by reaching custom audiences on high-performing, highly viewable ad inventory across mobile, video, display and connected tv. Our best-in class mobile location based targeting and measurement, high-performing cross device ad units and in-house optimization teams afford advertisers a powerful platform to place and manage their digital advertising efforts.