Visual Communications Group Hires Matthew Brown as Creative Director

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Contact:
Kalika Dugan, Marketing Coordinator
Visual Communications Group, Inc.
(952) 960-4488
Kalika.Dugan@vcgcorporate.com

Visual Communications Group Hires Matthew Brown as Creative Director

BURNSVILLE, Minn. – May 18, 2010 – Visual Communications Group, Inc. (VCG), a full-service marketing company serving the visual and graphic communications industry, announces that Matthew Brown has joined the VCG marketing team as Creative Director.

Brown comes to VCG with 16 years of art direction and creative design experience working with clients such as IBM, Anheuser-Busch, ESPN and Goodyear. Most recently, Brown served as Supervising Art Director for Staples, Inc. Promotional Products division where he managed a team of award winning Art Directors on an e-store platform initiative that generated over $40 million in addition sales.

“Matthew is a valuable member of our team” says Rick Stewart, president of VCG. “His online experience adds depth to his creative marketing background, which, in turn lends itself very well to our evolving business model. His familiarity with integrating the latest in web technologies with powerful creative design and e-marketing is already showing itself to be a great benefit to our clients. He will lead all creative development at VCG including all online website design efforts.”

Visual Communications Group, Inc.
Visual Communications Group, Inc. (www.vcgcorporate.com) is a full-service marketing company that serves visual and graphic communications businesses in North America through a family of online search engines and marketing services. VCG’s flagship domain, signsearch.com™, has been a trusted search engine in the sign industry for over 10 years. Its new counterpart, signsearch.ca™, serves the Canada market. Products such as digitalprintingsearch.com™, screenprintingsearch.com™, businessprintingsearch.com™, adspecialtysearch.com™, garmentdecoratingsearch.com™, and VCG Stores™ provide essential online marketing and ecommerce opportunities to related graphics businesses. Visual Communications Group connects buyers and sellers through innovative, data-driven execution of marketing and promotions, online advertising programs, and e-commerce solutions.

© 2010 Visual Communications Group, Inc. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. Visual Communications Group, Inc. shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.

Visual Communications Group Launches Flagship Domain in Canada

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Kalika Dugan, Marketing Coordinator
Visual Communications Group, Inc.
(952) 960-4488
Kalika.Dugan@vcgcorporate.com

Visual Communications Group Launches Flagship Domain in Canada

BURNSVILLE, Minn. – May 4, 2010 – Visual Communications Group, Inc. (VCG), a full-service marketing company that serves the visual and graphic communications industry, announced today the launch of their flagship Canadian domain, signsearch.ca.

“Canada has a thriving print, sign and graphics industry. Engaging with, and better serving, the Canadian market has always been part of our overall strategic plan,” says Rick Stewart, president of Visual Communications Group who is originally from Ontario. “These past few years we’ve experienced excellent growth, partially attributed to our increasingly strong US online presence and the launch of new products in the United States. We expect to continue that success in Canada and have taken the first steps towards an exciting market expansion with our neighbors to the north.”

In the United States and Canada, VCG is widely known as the largest and most trusted family of online search engines serving the sign, print and graphics industry. The newest addition to the VCG family, signsearch.ca, will serve as the flagship search engine for connecting sign and graphic businesses, wholesale suppliers, and end-user buyers in the Canada. Until today, the only entry point to the VCG Network from Canada was through the major search engines in the United States.

The launch of signsearch.ca is a key strategic milestone in a broader initiative to prioritize Canadian businesses in the print, sign and graphics industry and help them succeed. Part of that strategy also includes the launch of hundreds of “micro site” search domains specific to geographic regions or major cities and markets within Canada. “Our ongoing pay-per-click (PPC) strategy, the new signsearch.ca domain, and all of our associated Canadian micro sites will certainly drive new business to Canadian companies that advertise with us. We’re very excited to make new products available in Canada and drive results for our Canadian customers,” says Peter Beenen, vice president of new business development for Visual Communications Group.

Visual Communications Group, Inc.
Visual Communications Group, Inc. (www.vcgcorporate.com) is a full-service marketing company that serves visual and graphic communications businesses in North America through a family of online search engines and marketing services. Their flagship domain signsearch.com™ has been a trusted search engine in the sign industry for over 10 years. Their flagship domain signsearch.ca™ serves the Canadian markets. Products such as digitalprintingsearch.com™, screenprintingsearch.com™, businessprintingsearch.com™, adspecialtysearch.com™, garmentdecoratingsearch.com™, and VCG Stores™ provide essential online marketing and ecommerce opportunities to related graphics businesses. Visual Communications Group connects buyers and sellers through innovative, data-driven execution of marketing and promotions, online advertising programs, and e-commerce solutions.

® 2010 Visual Communications Group, Inc. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. Visual Communications Group, Inc. shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.

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