YOUNG & COMPANY, LLC
LAKE MARY, FLORIDA

We are an Orange County advertising agency We are focused on building brands and growing companies through cost-effective marketing communications. We work for both local and national clients providing a mix of services. We tailor each engagement to your needs. About Young Company - Creative Marketing Communications Young Company is one of Southern California’s most established marketing communications agencies, with roots dating back to 1949, when Doug Young founded Taggart & Young Advertising agency in Los Angeles. For more than six decades, the firm has been dedicated to helping regional, national and international companies build their brands and grow their businesses. Doug Young handled the TWA account before opening Taggart & Young Advertising in Los Angeles in 1949. As a strategic branding consultancy, Young Company provides the disciplined process, analytic tools and creative services required to articulate a comprehensive brand architecture and message strategy for our clients. As a creative integrated marketing communications agency, we combine strategically sound marketing planning with brilliantly executed advertising, public relations and Internet marketing programs to help our clients achieve their objectives. Young Company has successfully launched and managed integrated marketing campaigns for some of America’s most prestigious companies, including ARAMARK, Ameritec, Arrow Electronics, Avery International, Avnet, Candle Corporation, Cisco Systems, Dassault Systemes, Fluor Corporation, Hitachi, Hughes, IBM (5 divisions), Mitsubishi, Northrop Grumman, Samsung Electronics, TDK Semiconductors, Texas Instruments and TRW. Early Company History In 1963, a merger with Harvard grad Alvin Hollander expanded the agency into the world of financial marketing. As Young & Hollander, the agency attained recognition on creative campaigns for Santa Monica Federal Savings, Century Federal Savings, Pasadena Federal Savings, and Sutro & Company. A successful merger with Speer and Mays, in 1967, brought increased emphasis on industrial accounts and produced the winning team of Speer, Young & Hollander, Inc., an agency primed to grow into the booming Southern California landscape. Speer, Young & Hollander’s client roster was bolstered by companies such as Borg Warner’s Byron Jackson Pump Division, Delta Trucking Lines, FMC Sweepers, Hoffman Meat Packing, Houston Film Processors, Fruehauf Trailers, Maxon Industries, and O’Connor Engineering. As a professional marketer and strategist, Bart has guided a number of significant clients in attaining category leadership with award-winning advertising and public relations. Through his guidance and leadership Young Company is recognized as one of the top 25 business-to-business agencies in the U.S. Bart’s career in advertising began at age seven, when he spent the summer stuffing envelopes for a direct mail campaign at his father’s company, Speer, Young & Hollander. In 1983, Bart took over as President of SYH and built it into one of Southern California’s leading independent agencies. Earlier in his career, Bart was Director of Marketing for InfoSci, a Palo Alto-based high-technology consulting firm. During college he interned at J. Walter Thompson Advertising in San Francisco. Bart holds both BS and MBA degrees in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied with global brand equity expert David Aaker. He has been an Associate Professor at California State University, Los Angeles. Business Marketing Association President- 1989 UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Alumni Association – Los Angeles President- 2005 UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Alumni Association- Orange County President 2009 to Present Rich brings to Young Company over 40 years of sales and marketing experience across a variety of industries in manufacturing, technology, distribution and business and personal services. His Fortune 500 client-side experience developed his intuition in field sales, distribution services, and product management. His agency experience sharpened his ability to guide integrated marketing communications. Rich is a certified global branding consultant deeply experienced in brand definition and brand positioning and a powerful trainer on the process of defining and establishing brands to accelerate impact and growth. A graduate of Penn State, Rich has been known to prepare his share of epicurean delights and plays a mean violin. Janet has over 25 years of experience, shared between the areas of marketing communications and software engineering. Her combined talents complement each other extremely well and have enabled her to be very effective in marketing both high-tech and consumer products and services. Earlier in her career, Janet held the position as Manager of Marketing Communications at MicroSim Corporation, a software company in the Electronic Design Automation industry. She was responsible for strategic marketing planning, product and company positioning, public relations, and the development and implementation of all marketing communication activities. Janet earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Quantitative Business Analysis from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California). She has also pursued subsequent graduate studies in marketing communications and software engineering. Krista graduated from California Lutheran University with a Major in English and Minor in Fine Art. Having spent a year abroad in Italy, Krista moved to Florence after graduation, where she spent the next 8 years. In Italy, Krista worked in the travel and tourism industry before taking the leap into freelance life as a Social Media Manager to local businesses. She used the Social Media marketing skills she learned promoting travel and tourism services to help businesses looking for bilingual expertise in creating a brand voice for their online presence. Her marketing experience extends across a wide range of industries including Food and Wine, Luxury furniture and accessories, and health and fitness. Krista returned to her native Southern California, and brings to Young Company an internationally-minded approach to marketing and a passion for telling every client’s story in a customer-centric way.