Solve 2015 Growth Story Featured In Business Press

Article Touts Agency’s “Great 2015”

Minneapolis Star Tribune business columnist Neal St. Anthony featured a story on Solve, summarizing the agency’s strong performance in 2015. Select passages from the article appear below.

• Veteran ad agency executive John Colasanti, who founded Solve with four partners in 2011, continues to build business as a local independent agency. Colasanti, who once ran Carmichael Lynch, reports that revenue was up about 50 percent to $7 million last year.
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• Solve added 12 employees to complete 2015 with 42 people.
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• Colasanti said he didn’t lose any existing clients and won new business from Green Giant, PepsiCo, Shopko, LeMond Cycling and Founders Brewing Company. It was also nice to keep existing business from the likes of Bentley and Porsche in the Solve garage.
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• “We’re off to a fast start in 2016 and forecasting a similar growth trajectory,” he added.

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