Digital Marketing leader Andy Laing to join Bolin Marketing Team

MINNEAPOLIS (December 16, 2010) — Bolin Marketing recently announced the hire of top Chicago interactive marketing veteran Andy Laing to join their agency’s rapidly- growing digital team.

“Our expanding roster of national brands continues to allow us to recruit top talent not just locally, but across the country” said Dane Hartzell, General Manager of Bolin’s Digital Group.

Laing’s background includes work at Tribal DDB where he led the State Farm Insurance account. Laing has also worked at the Ryan Partnership and Ogilvy Action (formerly 141 Worldwide) with leading brands including Unilever, Motorola, Boeing, Nokia, Expedia.com, Microsoft, Kraft Foods and S.C. Johnson. Most recently, Laing led account management and strategic planning for Manifest Digital’s LEGO and Bally Total Fitness accounts. . He possesses over 14 years of team leadership experience, specializing in account management and strategic planning. Laing will assume the Account Director role at Bolin, where he will have primary responsibility for Bolin’s food clients such as Red Baron®, Freschetta®, Tony’s®, Edwards® Desserts and Mrs Smith’s® Pies.

“Bolin’s strategic approach to digital, their leadership in social media and ultimately the success they deliver for their clients made them stand out from the many other agencies I considered” said Laing.

About Bolin Marketing:
Bolin Marketing is a Minneapolis-based growth catalyst firm that combines the strategic rigor of business consulting with a color-outside-the-lines agency attitude. The result is pragmatic innovation that drives measurable business growth. Our growth catalysts have led marketing and business teams in small upstarts and Fortune 500 corporations alike.  From branding to licensing, distribution to digital, Bolin provides marketing, business development and creative services for our local, national and international clients.  Other agencies build brands. We build business.  Bolin was founded in 1950 and has offices in Minneapolis, Chicago and New Jersey. For more information, visit www.bolinmarketing.com or call 612-374-1200.