Innis Maggiore Group Names Paschke to Media, Account Posts

CANTON, Ohio (February 4, 1999) - Innis Maggiore Group, Inc., a regional advertising and public relations agency, today announced that it has hired Richard K. Paschke as director of media services and senior account supervisor.

He will be responsible for directing the agency's media department and for supervising a range of advertising accounts.

Paschke was most recently executive vice president at Talisker Group in Hudson, Ohio, a post he had held since 1995. Prior to that, he was director of advertising for Sherwin-Williams Co.'s Paint Stores Group in Cleveland.

Paschke's advertising career began in 1974 at Robert Solomon & Associates in Detroit, where he was a media planner and buyer. After a year there and two years at Yaffe Stone August in Southfield, Mich., Paschke became associate media director at W.B. Doner & Co.'s office in Southfield, where his accounts included Vlasic Foods, Pillsbury, Chiquita and Little Caesars.

From 1980 to 1984, he worked for Campbell Ewald in Warren, Mich., as vice president and media group supervisor, and managed media planning for Eastern Airlines, AC Delco, Magnavox and National Car Rental. In 1985, he joined Campbell Mithun Esty, where he became executive vice president and managed media activities for Jeep, Eagle, Renault and Little Caesars Canada. From 1991 to 1994, Paschke served as a partner at Cub Enterprises, an agency he helped establish in Farmington, Mich.

Paschke holds a bachelor of science degree in economics from Oakland (Mich.) University. He lives in Twinsburg with his wife, Maureen.

Innis Maggiore Group Inc., based in Canton, Ohio, is a regional advertising and public relations agency. The agency employs 26 people and reported 1998 capitalized billings of nearly $12 million, up more than 50 percent from the previous year. The agency's major clients include Republic Engineered Steels, Aultman Health Foundation, Oasis Floral Products, Square Two Golf, Preferred Rubber Compounding, Crown Divisions, Akrochem Corp. and Alpha Enterprises.