9.04: Utah Business Magazine Recognizes Holmes & Co.

SALT LAKE CITY—Culminating what many consider the cat fight of the year, Utah Business magazine recently released its list of the state's Top 25 Women-Owned Businesses.

“You simply cannot imagine the competition this list inspires,” says reader Mark Winter, who also happens to be Chief Financial Officer at Holmes & Co. “The fact that our agency made it is evidence of our owner's ability to get out there and claw her way to the top with the best of them,” he said of Lisa Holmes, majority owner and President of the firm. “I can't think of a businesswoman in Utah who wouldn't lie, cheat, or steal to be on that list. And to think our Lisa put us there without even breaking a sweat.”

Holmes & Co. has been in business for more than 20 years, under Lisa's ownership for the past four years, and under the current name since December, 2003. Prior to that time the top-25 company, which provides marketing communications and related services to hospital and health-care clients across the country, was called Snedaker Communications. Utah Business Magazine is Utah's premiere business publication. www.utahbusiness.com


8.04: Hendry Regional Medical Center Teams With Holmes & Co.

SALT LAKE CITY—In what is being billed as an association of two of America's most significant bodies of water, Hendry Regional Medical Center of Clewiston, Florida, recently selected Holmes & Co. to assist the hospital with market research, developing communications strategies, and creating advertising campaigns. The hospital is affiliated with Quorum Health, one the nation's leading hospital management groups.

According to Lisa Holmes, President of Holmes & Co., Clewiston is located on the shores of Lake Okeechobee, a 663-square-mile lake lying 14 feet above sea level in south-central Florida. “Our agency is just a few miles from the Great Salt Lake,” Holmes said. “Our lake covers more than 2,000 square miles and is more than 4,000 feet above sea level. And of course, the Great Salt Lake is salty while Lake Okeechobee is fresh water. Still, despite those differences, it's fascinating that a hospital on the shores of one major American lake would select an advertising agency on the shores of another big body of water.”