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President & CEO, Andreas Dannenberg, of Ad-comm Group, one of Japan`s leading independent, foreign-owned marketing communications agencies, will speak at two seminars on May 4, 2005 to be sponsored by The Japan America Society (JAS), in cooperation with the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO, Los Angeles). The seminars titled "Successful Marketing in the New Japan" will be held in both Orange County and Los Angeles. Dannenberg, who has been called the "maverick of advertising in Japan" by ADWEEK magazine, will share his experience, recent trends and success strategies for marketing in Japan - and Asia`s - new business climate.
The two seminars include a breakfast program from 7:30-9:00 a.m. at the law offices of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, 650 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626; the cost to attend the breakfast program is $20 for members of JAS & JETRO, $25 for non-members. At noon, Dannenberg will speak in downtown Los Angeles at a lunch program from 12:00-1:30 p.m. at The New Otani Hotel & Garden, 120 S. Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012; the cost to attend the lunch program is $35 for members of JAS & JETRO, $40 for non-members. For information and reservations, please call the Japan America Society at (213) 627-6217, ext. 202, or visit www.jas-socal.org .
Ad-comm is a fully integrated group of marketing communications companies based in Tokyo with its U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles, and new offices to open later this year in New York and Singapore. The eight operating companies under the Ad-comm Group umbrella provide specialized services in each of their fields, i.e. building and management of brands (Brand Vision), public relations and external/internal message management (Trimedia), management of investor relations-communication (Capital IR), development and execution of advertising & media strategy (AD-media), event marketing (AD-event), digital applications & online communication / e/m-commerce (CyberMedia), B-to-B communication and content management (NEXT Inc.), and marketing communication services to companies prior to IPO (Ad-equity).
The first of the Ad-comm Group, Ad-media, was founded in 1987. The company, now with more than 100 employees representing multiple nationalities and languages, represents prestigious clients - both Japanese and global multi-nationals -- including such notables as Nestle, Allianz, Heineken, Porsche, Kirin and Fujitsu, among many others
As part the company`s on-going mission to develop new and innovative ways to support its clients, the firm launched in 2002 Japan’s premier luxury cross-marketing platform and publication called the whitebook. The firm plans to launch a U.S. edition of the wbitebook in 2006.
Ad-comm Group`s U.S. headquarters is located at 1880 Century Park East, Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90067, Tel: 310-279-5992. The Japan main office is located at Tech Hiroo Bldg. 9F, 1-10-5 Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0012 Japan, Tel: 81-3-5423-5335.