To celebrate more than 25 years serving and connecting businesses across food and agricultural industries, the partners of our strategic marketing and communications agency, Chairman Lyle Orwig, CEO Mark Gale and President Marcy Tessmann, have assured our future by finding new owners that care most about our brand–us!
Through an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), we’re now 100% employee owned. What does that mean for you? Get the full story.
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Our team of subject matter experts focuses on food and agriculture—farm field to processing to entrée on a plate. We can help you build a new brand, protect an old one or target customers to foster sales. Let’s talk when the time is right to handle your next strategic marketing and communications challenge: Marcy Tessmann, marcy@co-nxt.com.
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