In our 20 years, we’ve worked with a wide variety of clients. While some put a lot of value on our experience in specific industries; “Do you guys do
b-to-b?”, “How much do you know about cattle?”, “Do you know anything about aviation marketing?” etc., many more are intrigued by the solutions we’ve created for categories in which we had no prior experience. As a result, there is rarely a question that surprises us, “Our VC is a marketing specialist in this field and wants to work at your office with you on this… OK?” and “How would you reach Hispanic families flying home to Mexico?” We’ll be the first to say we have not seen it all, and it is this thirst for new challenges that makes us get out of bed every morning. We have successfully solved business problems as a collective group on hundreds of different businesses; the following is just a sample.
Consumer |
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24 Hour Fitness AEG Entertainment Apex Fitness Group ATA Airlines Bay To Breakers Beautifulplaces.com Blue Cat Amenities Cable Labs |
Colorado Co-op Chevron Domaine Chandon The San Francisco Examiner Ford Motor Company Giorgio Armani Meals on Wheels SF Muccigrosso Vineyards |
Parkway Drugs Pebble Beach Company PlanetRX Re:fresh Day Spa RedEnvelope Riviera Van Beers T-Mobile |
“You guys do great creative.”
– John Wilcox, Publisher San Francisco Examiner
Food/Beverage |
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Chatz Coffee Chili Up Cook Express Escobar Fitz Fresh Mushrooms Gordon Biersch |
H204U Pure Water LaSalle Cigars Mashuga Nuts Nestlé Beverage CompanyPersonal Chef Pezzini Farms |
Pyramid Breweries RainForest Company Robert Mondavi Silverado Foods Sparkletts Tanqueray-Guinness |
“Our ability to consolidate all our communication, design and marketing needs into one agency was crucial.
The M-Line has successfully proven over and over again, their ability to create, build and differentiate our brands.”
–Scott Barnum, CEO Pyramid Breweries
Consumer Technology |
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Apple Computer, Inc. Autodesk Cyberstate U Hewlett Packard Ofoto |
PGP Power House Technologies Rolm Corporation SelectQuote |
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“There are few firms that can offer the kind of world-class creative talent, hard-headed project management and business expertise, and thoroughly-devoted client service I’ve experienced with The M-Line. It’s difficult enough to find a firm that
can meet just one or two of these criteria; to find one that can offer all three is something truly special.”
- Erik Hagerman, Creative Director Wal-Mart.com
B-to-B Technology |
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Alphablox Brience Cisco Systems Computron CoreLogic Evoke Full Degree Intel |
iOra iVenturi Microsoft Net Channel netCustomer NetSanity, Inc. Octopus Technologies OpenHarbor |
Pivia San Francisco Consulting Group Sepialine TestDrive Visual Numerics VMWare Zone Labs |
“It is rare when any outside firm can fully understand and embrace a cutting-edge business technology, especially one as complex as ours...From a product development, design, positioning and brand marketing perspective, we have been the lucky benefactors of The M-Line’s collective talents.”
- Jon Elvekrog, Director of Product Marketing, Octopus
Health Care |
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Berlex Corp. Covance, Inc. Genentech Inhale Therapeutics |
Lipomics Louise Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford McKesson Drug Co. |
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Advertising/PR/Film/Design |
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BOGADA BRM Group Cahan & Associates Film Oasis Graphic Artists Guild Imagineering Company |
Ketchum Communications MediaOne OneMediaPlace Primo Angeli Singer & Associates |
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Museums |
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Art Museum of Santa Cruz County Center for Art & History, Santa Cruz County San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Zeum, San Francisco |
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“It was through their generous creative work and expertise that Zeum was able to develop its fun, innovative,
and imaginative new image… We feel privileged to have worked with such a dynamic, creative team.”
- David A. Dial, Executive Director, Zeum
Municipal |
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Canadian Consulate Bureau of Trade City College of San Francisco City of Campbell Friends of the Public Library, Santa Cruz, CA Port of San Francisco Public Works, City of Santa Cruz |
San Francisco Arts Commission San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau San Francisco General Hospital Foundation San Francisco International Airport San Francisco Municipal Railway San Francisco Opera |
San Francisco Performances San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department San Francisco SPCA San Francisco Visitor Information Center Senator Ken Salazar |
Education/Publishing |
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Animated Speech Corporation Chronicle Books Coalition of Essential Schools CTB McGraw-Hill |
Mills College Mosaica Education Park Day Schools Strozzi Institute WestEd |
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Financial/Legal |
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All Terrain Property Management Analysis Group BayStar Capital BreoVentures CampSix DCM Equity Office Property The First American Corporation |
Hamberg Taylor Associates Image Color & Filmwork Ketchum Communications LoanPerformance Montgomery Street Financial Nightingale San Francisco Consulting Group/KPMG Silicon Valley Bank |
Stockbridge Funds StonePath Ventures Tucker Alan, Inc. Venture Strategy Group Visual Radio Xpede Zia Information Analysis |
“The M-Line is an incredible group of creative people. Their ability to quickly grasp our unique business challenges
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meet them with fresh and effective solutions is unparalleled. They have done an amazing job for Loan Performance
and I am eternally grateful.”
- Dan Feshbach, CEO Loan Performance
Pro Bono |
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BAVC/Media Front Bernard Oscher Jewish Community Center Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Francisco Cecil Williams Glide Community House Child Care Building Episcopal Social Services |
Glide Home Again Janice Mirikatani Family, Youth & Childcare Center Julia Morgan Center for the Arts Nawa Pillow Talk |
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“Over the years we have worked with many different firms on design and communication projects. We have found The M-Line to be the most professional and creative agency we have ever worked with. Not only is their work excellent, their timing and budget efficient, but they also demonstrate a sincere passion for the City of San Francisco and the needs of the community.”
- Cecil Williams, Minister of Liberation, Glide Memorial
