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Whiteboard LLC is acquired by Contorno Design Group, exhibitdesign™ brand to be re launched, and extended.

 For Immediate Release -- August 1, 2003 -- Minneapolis, MN
  Contorno Design Group, a Twin City based IT and industrial design consultancy, has acquired The WhiteBoard LLC. The WhiteBoard is a holding company that operated the exhibitdesign.com (exhibitdesign) systems exhibit wholesale operation, as well as other businesses undergoing incubation, including the Exhibit Planet™. The balance of the Whiteboard's intellectual property will also be developed and, if viable, brought to market as well.

exhibitdesign, originally a wholesale exhibit systems distributorship, will be headed up by the former owner of exhibit design systems, a full service exhibit firm that was sold to a California company that subsequently ceased operations in Minnesota.

“We are going to look at trade show exhibiting from an entirely new perspective” says Mark Bendickson, CEO of Contorno Design Group, “we have developed a process to position a client uniquely by looking at their trade show budget not as an expense, but as an investment”. exhibitdesign will craft programs for it’s clientele by taking a clients strategy and building a program around achieving their long term objectives while constantly measuring and improving the return on their marketing investment.

exhibitdesign has developed a ‘results matter’ process that more resembles the role of an investment counselor than an exhibit builder. “Too many exhibitors look at an exhibit purchase the way they buy a car. Make a good purchase, drive it for a while and trade it in for something new”, adds Bendickson, “an exhibit program needs to be managed and change with your changing needs. We want to be a client’s partner and collaborate with them to continually evolve the program and maximize the return on the resources invested”.

For more info, contact:
Mark Bendickson
mark@exhibitdesign.com
877.252.2218

About exhibitdesign
exhibitdesign is a strategic marketing and design consultancy specializing in developing experience and dimensional marketing programs for companies large and small. ExhibitDesign concentrates on aligning a client's goals and objectives with their corporate strategies and providing measurement, benchmarking, and program management tools to enhance ROI. exhibitdesign is a unit of Contorno Design Group, Inc. a privately held company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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