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KRT Marketing is an ad agency headquartered in Lafayette, California. Right away, that cuts down on our media exposure. On the other hand, it sure cuts down on our overhead expense. We are a $14+ million shop that is the latest incarnation of a long-established Bay Area agency, originally formed in the spring of 1972. Over the years we managed to grow into one of the top 20 agencies in Northern California. We did all of the things expected of "hot" shops. We opened offices in New York, Los Angeles and Sacramento. We acquired other shops. We set up research and video divisions, a direct response unit and our own meetings & incentives planning company. We attracted the top creative, production and account people from agencies of all sizes. And then one day in the spring of 1990, we realized that the compromises we were asked to make for the sake of what we had built were counter to the basic principles we had in mind when we first opened 18 years before. So we got back to basics and to the business of serving the total marketing needs of our clients. We offer a blend of consumer and business-to-business advertising and marketing services. And some very smart businesses have hired us to focus on it for them. Sun Microsystems and DHL Worldwide Express are names you might recognize, two giants for whom we work -- and with any luck, we always will. Accounts like those have taught us to be very strategic, very sophisticated and very effective. If we weren't, we wouldn't last very long. We have, by the way, lasted over a decade with Sun. For the advertiser looking for its next agency, it all means something very important: KRT is a solid, smart, fast-on-its-feet marketing resource with the moxie to work with major clients -- and the creative muscle to come up with breakthrough ideas. So even if you haven't heard of KRT Marketing, you will. Now let me get this straight.