BBMG Expands New York Office; With New Team Members, New Clients and a Creative Studio Overlooking NYC's Union Square, Brand-Driven Marketing Firm Aims to ``Inspire Communication''.

NEW YORK -- Bemporad Baranowski Marketing Group (BBMG), a marketing agency founded in 2002 by veteran strategists Raphael Bemporad and Mitch Baranowski, has moved and expanded its office to accommodate its growing client roster and its desire to inspire communication through integrated marketing campaigns.

With a proven track record of using "brand-driven communications" to help clients stand out, build relationships and inspire action, BBMG is growing quickly. Recent client wins include branding campaigns for the Appalachian Trail Conference, Center for a New American Dream, Columbia University's Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowships Program.

Earlier this year the firm launched the second annual Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy, featuring Frances Mayes, Renee Fleming and Bobby McFerrin. It also produced a "Lid-Rock" promotional spot for Do Something and Citigroup's Financial Education Challenge, created a corporate documentary for gift maker Russ Berrie and Company, and unveiled the Queens Culture Trolley on behalf of the Queens Museum of Art. In coming weeks it will open the Aerospace High Performance Center, the Meatpacking District's newest fitness facility co-founded by boxing champion Michael Olajide, Jr., and spa innovator Leila Fazel.

"We launched BBMG to make a life, not just a living," said Raphael Bemporad, 36, who met co-founder Mitch Baranowski 15 years ago when the two worked as teaching assistants for the same professor of utopian literature at the University of Texas in Austin. "We believe in harnessing the power of branding to deliver big ideas, fresh insights and measurable results."

With extensive experience in consumer marketing, public affairs and political campaigns, BBMG integrates creative solutions -- branding, corporate identity, collateral design, interactive marketing, and television arts -- with a full suite of strategic communications services. The firm's areas of expertise include nonprofit branding, social marketing, teen marketing, travel/tourism, B2B/technology and professional services. Adding firepower to its public affairs practice, the firm recently formed a strategic partnership with Dan Gerstein Consulting, whose founder previously served as advisor and senior strategist for Joe Lieberman on two presidential campaigns.

Prior to co-founding BBMG, Raphael Bemporad served as Communications Director at the national nonprofit Do Something where he oversaw marketing, corporate partnerships and media relations. He also served as Communications Director for the Texas Democratic Party, and Communications Director for Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis (D-Houston). Bemporad got his start in political communications working as a press aide to Texas Governor Ann W. Richards.

Mitch Baranowski previously served as managing director of public affairs for Burson-Marsteller, and vice president of corporate affairs for Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, where he counseled such clients as Bombardier Aerospace, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care and Juno Online Services. Earlier in his career, Baranowski was a director of corporate communications for AMR Corp./American Airlines, where he managed a broad range of strategic activities, including internal communications, marketing PR and issues management.

BBMG's new loft-style offices are located at 200 Park Avenue South overlooking Union Square.

To learn more about the agency's passion for inspiring communication, please visit http://www.bbmg.com or email [e-mail].