JH&A News
6/7/07
JH&A Advertising Celebrates 20th Anniversary
JH&A Advertising today marks it's 20 th anniversary as an independent, locally owned marketing communications and public relations agency. The agency has quietly built an enviable reputation serving an impressive client roster from its South Austin headquarters. What began 20-years ago as an offshoot of Service Printing has grown into a powerhouse boutique agency providing strategic, integrated communications services to the likes of Dell, 3M, Buffalo Technology, Silicon Labs, Dynamic Systems, Wilsonart and others.
The JH&A story began back in the early 1960's when founder John Hamm took an apprenticeship under his father, who owned and operated Austin-based Service Typesetting. Over time, Service Typesetting evolved into Service Printing, operating as a large commercial printer for a number of years.
In 1986, Hamm decided to break from the printing business and its investors to spin the firm's burgeoning design shop into an independent entity: JH&A Advertising. The firm enjoyed immediate success working with clients like 3M, ArtCarved and the Charter Lane family of hospitals.
JH&A bolstered its client roster and professional staff by acquiring Tessar Communications in 1988, a young but fast-growing agency headed by Patrick Cline. The addition of Cline's industry experience and client roster led to a decade of steady growth serving clients including USAA, SRI Sports (Astroturf), Micheal Angelo Foods, AMD, National Telecom, Dell and other enterprise-level global corporations along with a healthy portfolio of local and regional clients.
The tech slowdown of 1999-2000 and terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 delivered a one-two punch that reverberated across Austin's agency landscape, prompting a string of mergers, acquisitions and bankruptcies. JH&A maintained its independence and thrived largely due to a steady flow of work from its well-established client base.
Over the years, JH&A has won numerous awards for print advertising, Web design, flash animation, print collateral and direct mail. Recent Awards include an SIAA Gold Medal in direct mail for Viagen, and a Silver Medal in the collateral family category for non-profit Wild Basin Preserve. ADscore and Harvey Research awarded JH&A's collateral, POS and print ads for Wilsonart with top scores for advertising effectiveness. And the firm's whimsical flash animation 'unWired Buyer Saves the Day' introducing software for e-Bay power shoppers earned a Silver Medal at the Summit Creative Awards.
JH&A has leveraged its strong portfolio and the recovering economy into steady but cautious growth, refining its trademark high-touch approach to integrated advertising, marketing communications and public relations along the way. Today, JH&A provides full-service promotional campaigns to clients in technology, heavy industry, consumer products, construction, and other competitive business sectors.
"At JH&A, we are totally committed to understanding our client's goals and business objectives. By cost-effectively matching our creative efforts and promotional methods to the task at hand, we deliver bottom-line results. This simple formula builds client loyalty, and is the secret to our longevity," said John Hamm, president, JH&A Advertising.
5/9/07
JH&A 20th Birthday Celebration!
Mark June 7th on your calendar and join JH&A for our 20th anniversary bash
at South Austin's Mercury Hall. Bar service and a fabulous fajita buffet
open at 6PM. Entertainment by the world-famous South Austin Jug Band starts
at 7:30PM. Join the fun - RSVP today!
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2/1/07
JH&A is Turning Twenty!
Sustaining long-term success in any business takes a commitment to principles. That's especially true in the service sector, where longevity hinges on a single core attribute: reputation.
At JH&A, we work hard to offer exceptional value to every client we serve. Our formula is simple. We believe that superior customer service means listening and delivering quality creative work on time and on budget.
It's a formula that has earned us repeat business from hundreds of clients like Dell, 3M, Buffalo Technologies, Wilsonart, Faulkner Construction, Dynamic Systems and many others. And it's a formula virtually guaranteed to work for you.
We pause at this milestone to thank the many clients, vendors and friends who have been essential to our 20 years of success. Here's to another 20!
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"JH&A exceeded our expectations and came in on budget. They paid close attention to detail, and their creative staff provides multiple options that were better than we had ever seen from our previous agency."
~Mike Weddington, Wilsonart
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