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Sante Magazine & iSante Select Artichoke Creative for Representation
& Creative Services
San Diego agency will integrate business development and creative services.

Bennington, VT – March 20, 2007 – OPC - LLC, publishers of iSante, and partners with Santé magazine, have selected Artichoke Creative, an integrated sales and marketing agency headquartered in San Diego to promote iSanté sponsorships for special Internet projects and to integrate sales with other related projects such as Santé magazine, the Santé Restaurant Symposium, and the Santé Awards. In addition, Artichoke Creative will provide a full range of creative services for advertisers and sponsors.

“This is a great opportunity for us to work with an agency that can provide a unique combination of business development and creative services ” said iSante Publisher, Emiliano de Laurentiis. “Not only can Artichoke Creative provide iSante with increased sales revenue, they will also be providing a terrific value to our clients with their ability to create effective print, banner, rich media and email marketing campaigns. We plan on tapping their expertise for our internal campaigns as well.”

David Boylan, Artichoke Creative founder and President added, “This is a perfect fit for us. It enables us to combine our sales and food industry experience and contacts, with our ability to produce creative, effective advertising. It’s a nice value-added service to offer an advertiser. Not only will we help them with a strategic, integrated plan combining the website with their various other products, we’ll have the creative expertise to design ads that will perform for them”.
 

About Santé Magazine and iSanté
Now in its eleventh year of publication, Santé, the Magazine for Restaurant Professionals, features award-winning editorial on food, wine, and spirits management for restaurant professionals. Santé has a qualified circulation of 55,000 and a pass-along readership of over 260,000 in full-service restaurant and hospitality establishments across the nation. Written primarily by professionals, Santé’s editorial is uniquely pertinent to its loyal readers. Santé magazine, the annual Santé Restaurant Awards, and the Santé Restaurant Symposium are produced by On-Premise Communications, Inc. (OPC). Founded by Mark Vaughan and Chris Costello in 1996, OPC is headquartered in Bennington, Vermont, with offices in Florida and California.

iSanté, eKnowledge for Restaurant Professionals (isantemagazine.com), and the Santé Food & Beverage Bulletin e-newsletter are published by OPC-Online, LLC, a partnership between On-Premise Communications, Inc., and Knowledge Environments, Inc. iSanté currently receives over 51,000 unique visitors a month and 300,000 page views.

About Artichoke Creative
Artichoke Creative is a full service, integrated sales and marketing agency for businesses that demand accountability from their marketing plans.   are headquartered in Encinitas, California with a satellite office in Royal Oak, Michigan.  For more information on Artichoke Creative visit their website at www.artichoke-creative.com or contact David Boylan at 760.753.8663