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         <title>Brandt Ronat + Co Wins Best of Print at 2010 ADDY Awards</title>
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With an homage to the rock group Three Dog Night and their hit song, "Joy to the World", brandt ronat + co took home the Best of Print Award for work accomplished for the Cocoa Beach Wine and Food Festival.  As you can see, 

<em>Jeremiah was a bullfrog 
Was a good friend of mine 
I never understood a single word he said 
But I helped him a-drink his wine 
And he always had some mighty fine wine 
Singin'... 

Joy to the world 
All the boys and girls now 
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea 
Joy to you and me</em> 

br+c was also honored with eight other ADDY Awards.  ]]></description>
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         <title>Brandt Ronat and Company Co-hosts December Denver Happy Hour</title>
         <description><![CDATA[BR+C and Rack & Rye Gastropub co-hosted the Denver Happy Hour, a casual networking event with free appetizers and happy-hour cocktails.

Rack & Rye (1320 15th Street, Between Larimer & Market) Wednesday December 16th, 5:30p to 7:30p

Rack & Rye Gastropub
1320 15th Street, Downtown Denver
720-620-4920

Free Appetizers (sample the new menu! Yum..)
Complimentary Platino Paloma Cocktails
$2 PBR, $3 domestic, $4 wells, house wines & beers.

5:30pm to 7:30pm
<a href="http://www.rackandrye.com">http://www.rackandrye.com</a>

For photos and a review of Rack and Rye, go <a href="http://denver.metromix.com/restaurants/essay_photo_gallery/first-look-rack-and/1648355/content ">here</a>.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>The Space Report 2009 Wins Award of Excellence from Florida Print Awards</title>
         <description><![CDATA[brandt ronat + company is proud to announce that <em>The Space Report 2009: The Authoritative Guide to the Global Space Industry </em>has been recognized at the “Florida Print Awards” with an Award of Excellence in the category of Environmentally Sound Materials.

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<em>The Space Report 2009 </em>is a 136-page, perfect-bound book that met the standards and responsible footprint certification requirements of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).  FSC is an independent, non-governmental, not for profit organization established to promote the responsible management of the world’s forests. ]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Linda Brandt and Melinda Ridgley to Serve on Economic Development Commission Councils</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<strong>Brevard County, Florida</strong>—The Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast has engaged in research, analysis and dialogue with key stakeholders to create a three-year strategic plan with four strategic priorities, three key goals and five industrial clusters.  Linda Brandt, President and CEO, brandt ronat + company and Melinda Ridgley, Vice President, Accounts, brandt ronat + company have volunteered for important councils which will help guide the implementation of the EDC’s strategic plan. Each council is structured around four strategic priority areas and will serve as integral tools in achieving three important goals:  Create 2,250 New Jobs; Change 12 Business Policies; and Become a Community of Distinction.   ]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Brandt Ronat and Company joins with the EDC of Florida’s Space Coast  in support of economic strategies for a better Brevard County</title>
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<strong>Brevard County, Florida</strong> – Brandt Ronat and Company has joined with the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast in setting a <a href="http://www.spacecoastedc.org/journey.aspx">3-Year Strategic Plan</a> focused on building a better Brevard County. Together with the other coalition partners, we have identified <a href="http://www.spacecoastedc.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=Templates%2fCluster+Study.pdf&tabid=36&mid=921">industry clusters</a>, primary strategic priorities and goals by which we will measure our success. We do this to improve our businesses, our lives, our communities and our opportunities, and because we believe we are stronger together than we are apart.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Navigating the Media Marketplace</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<strong>Brandt Ronat + Company is launching a special service line: Media Budget Consultation/Review and Recommendation.</strong>

In the community, we have many conversations with business people.  Some of them are already our clients, but more often than not, these people are business colleagues, acquaintances and friends.  They are business people focused on the day-to-day operations of their business and marketplace.  They are extremely interested in how they are spending their media marketing and advertising budget.  But they don’t always have all the information they need to stay knowledgeable and current about the media options that are available.  

Or, they are extremely savvy marketers who have significant marketing budgets but don’t have enough time to stay on top of the rapidly changing current state of options that exist in the media world.  They are wondering: “does that $200,000 annual contract still make sense? Can we save our company money and still get results? How do I recommend moving away from what has always worked?”  



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         <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 20:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>The Space Report Is Featured in SatMagazine</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Here on the Space Coast our namesake industry is always on our minds. It's a huge part of our economy and a large part of our identity. But the space industry is becoming increasingly global—a phenomenon the Space Foundation documents in their important annual publication, The Space Report.

<img alt="SR09%20Cover_72rgb300pxW.jpg" src="http://www.brc60.com/Press/SR09%20Cover_72rgb300pxW.jpg" width="320" height="408" align="left" />These are works of substantial impact in the space industry—an authoritative look at the global impact of space activities with a focus on the economic impacts. This year’s book, recently completed and released, is an academic achievement credited to the Space Foundation’s Washington, D.C., office led by Marty Hauser, Vice President, Research and Analysis, working with a team of contributors from across the country. 

brandt ronat + company has served as the design/development team for the three Space Reports that have been published (2006, 2008 and 2009), guiding the look of the book through image selection and layout, as well as writing captions and producing digital editions of the books.

brandt ronat + company is proud to have contributed to the production of this book. The Space Report team consisted of Jay Decator, Project Manager; Julian Bennett, Lead Designer; Tina Shea, Designer; William Ronat, Support; Lisa Hansen, Support; and Linda Brandt, Account Supervisor.

To learn more about this comprehensive look at the global space industry, you may want to follow the link below to a SatMagazine article, which provides excerpts from the latest edition. Or you can follow the other links to the websites for Space Foundation and The Space Report, where the books are available for purchase.

<a href="http://www.satmagazine.com/cgi-bin/display_article.cgi?number=1645248001">SatMagazine</a>

<a href="http://www.spacefoundation.org/">Space Foundation</a>

<a href="http://www.thespacereport.org/">The Space Report</a>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 16:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>brandt ronat + co Wins Best of Campaign at ADDYs</title>
         <description><![CDATA[(March 2009) At the annual <strong>ADDY Awards</strong>, presented by The American Advertising Federation - Space Coast,<strong> brandt ronat + co</strong> and the <strong>FLORIDA TODAY</strong> Features Department were honored with the <strong>Best of Campaign</strong> award for the Fall for the Arts Campaign created for the Brevard Cultural Alliance.  <strong>br+c</strong> was also recognized with <strong>fifteen other awards</strong>, honoring work for the <em>Economic Development Commission of Florida's Space Coast, the Lawler Center, Health First, The Viera Company </em>and <em>Harris Corporation.  </em>
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Best of Campaign - Brevard Cultural Alliance
Title: Fall for the Arts Campaign

<em>The Fall for the Arts Campaign was a special partnership which took many dedicated hands.  While b r + c created the campaign strategies and the core elements as well as the advertising pieces, the crown jewel of this campaign was the special 8 full pages of editorial coverage, called Art matters, designed and produced by FLORIDA TODAY in support of arts and culture in Brevard.  Additionally, a special insert on Fall for the Arts appeared in Space Coast Living.  This kind of cooperation and community-building action by these media partners should be applauded.</em>

<a href="http://www.brc60.com/Press/59B_FallForTheArts_Campaign.pdf">View PDF</a>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>brandt ronat + co Selects netDirective Technologies as its Information Technology Management Partner</title>
         <description>Rockledge, Fl. – March 16, 2009 – Frank Huston, Vice President of netDirective Technologies, Inc., announced last week that brandt ronat + co (br+c) has chosen netDirective as its Managed IT Services partner. netDirective’s Managed IT Services offering is a proactive, 24x7, preventative maintenance and support service that keeps computers and networks running optimally while helping to control IT costs.

“There are three main IT objectives that are absolutely critical to our business,” said Ryan Brandt, br+c minority owner and VP of New Business Development, “Using netDirective’s Managed IT Services delivers in a push verses a pull manner on all these objectives:  first—protect what we develop for our clients (protect our data), second—keep our business operational, productive and moving forward, and third—help us stay in front of strategic IT growth opportunities and maintenance/infrastructure decisions.  A technology partner that delivers on these things allows us to focus on our core business.  netDirective Technologies does this for us and at a fair value.”  
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Brandt Ronat + Company Now Equipped to Deliver High Quality Web Video from Start to Finish</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Brandt Ronat + Company has made a leap forward in terms of video production for the web with the addition of a Sony PMW-EX1 high-definition camcorder. 

<img alt="EX1.jpg" src="http://www.brc60.com/Press/EX1.jpg" width="493" height="339" />

“This is an impressive video tool. If our clients need professional video for the web, then we have everything necessary to make an excellent product, right here,” Bill Ronat of Brandt Ronat + Company said.  Ronat spent ten years as a professional producer/director in the Midwest and Florida before starting BR+C with Linda Brandt. He was also a contributing editor for Videomaker Magazine, and several of his articles were featured in Videomaker Guide to Digital Video and DVD Production. 
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         <title>Brandt Ronat + Company announces the addition of Neyssa García Toucet, consultant for Hispanic markets.</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Merritt Island, Fla, November 20, 2008 — Neyssa García Toucet has recently joined Brandt Ronat + Co. as an Account Executive focused on Hispanic markets.  García Toucet currently provides expertise in public relations and marketing for Brandt Ronat in Puerto Rico. 

“Neyssa will be instrumental in helping Brandt Ronat + Company better serve clients in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and the U.S.,” said Linda Brandt, CEO of Brandt Ronat + Company.  “Neyssa has proved to be very valuable in helping us provide marketing assistance to Hospital de la Concepción in San Germán.  We want to honor our commitment to Hospital de la Concepción and be as valuable as we can possibly be.  Having Neyssa García Toucet on our Account Team there has made a positive difference in the speed of delivery and the caliber of work that we are able to accomplish on a week-to-week basis.  Today we can literally work from anywhere in the world.  Neyssa is helping us do that; and we look forward to a long association.”

<a href="http://www.brc60.com/Press/2008/11/neyssa_garcia_toucet_featured.html">http://www.brc60.com/Press/2008/11/Neyssa Garcia Toucet featured in San Jaun Star</a>]]></description>
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         <title>Neyssa Garcia Toucet featured in San Juan Star</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<strong>Women on the Rise, Peñuelas Style</strong>

There are some things that go unnoticed in life, but Public Relations extraordinaire Neyssa Garcia Toucet will not be one of them.  The great woman behind the great Mayor of Peñuelas, Walter Torres, is an exceptional example of excellence and a great reason to celebrate the modern woman of today.

<a href="http://www.brc60.com/Press/2008/11/brandt_ronat_company_announces.html">http://www.brc60.com/Press/2008/11/BRC Announces the addition of Neyssa Garcia Toucet</a>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Julian Bennett of Brandt Ronat + Company Wins Google Lunar X PRIZE T-Shirt Design Competition</title>
         <description>Julian Bennett, a senior designer at Brandt Ronat + Company, spends a lot of time thinking about space.  He has accomplished extensive work for the Space Foundation, including the design of The Space Report: the Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity (2006 and 2008). He lives on the Space Coast of Florida and some people have even accused Julian of being a little “spacey”.  So it was a no-brainer for Julian to enter the contest to design the t-shirt for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, the competition that Google is sponsoring to further space exploration.  But considering that entries came in from around the world, he didn’t actually expect to win.  But he did. </description>
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         <title>Melinda Ridgley Named Vice President at Brandt Ronat + Company</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<strong>Merritt Island, FL, May 29, 2008 — Melinda McNab Ridgley has been named Vice President/Accounts at Brandt Ronat + Company, a firm specializing in Analytical Creative™—a strategic creative development process aimed at providing organizations with evidence-based actions in communications planning, advertising and decision-making. </strong> 

As Vice President, Ridgley will continue to take on executive-level business functions within the firm, with a primary focus on senior level management of client relationship development. 

 “Melinda Ridgley is an exemplary thinker, experienced in planning and helping organizations execute strategic marketing across many types of opportunities both locally and internationally,” said Linda Brandt, CEO of Brandt Ronat + Company. “Mel’s expertise in both external and internal communications initiatives serves our current clients well and positions her to help Brandt Ronat expand into other markets, including continuing to grow our healthcare marketing segment.” 

Meet Melinda Ridgley for a short question and answer session <a href="http://www.brc60.com/mel/AskMel.html">here</a>.


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         <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 16:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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         <title>Linda Brandt and Melinda Ridgley Recognized by Space Coast Business</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Brandt Ronat and Company's Linda Brandt has been recognized as one of Brevard's 100 most influential business leaders, while Melinda Ridgley was identified as an up-and-comer for the same list. The list attempts to pinpoint Brevard businesspeople with a wide sphere of local influence who facilitate change, have a successful track record, and who rally others to act, among other things.

You can read the Space Coast Business article <a href="http://www.mydigitalpublication.com/publisher/spacecoast/Spacecoast_Business/issue2/magazine.php?page=23">here</a>.]]></description>
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