Neathawk Dubuque & Packett

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Neathawk Dubuque & Packett (ND&P) is an American advertising agency based in Virginia, with clients across the country. It was one of the first advertising agencies to in the United States to develop a specialty in healthcare marketing. Neathawk Dubuque & Packett has offices in Richmond and Roanoke as well as Chattanooga, Tennessee and Charlotte, North Carolina.

Healthcare clients include Mercy Health System in Philadelphia, PA^[1]; Georgetown University Hospital, DC; Carolinas Healthcare System; Tanner Health System in Georgia, among others in Arizona, California, Idaho, and North Carolina. The agency’s client roster includes Bliley's ^[2], Virginia State Police, ITT Night Vision, the Jefferson Hotel and Meals on Wheels.

ND&P was recently named one of Richmond, VA's top ten advertising firms by Richmond.com.^[3] They won "Best of Show" in the national Healthcare Advertising Awards for their Washington Hospital Center television spot.^[4] Other national awards include multiple from the Healthcare Marketing Report and the Aster Awards.^[5] Regionally, ND&P won multiple recognitions in the third district ADDY awards as well as the Richmond Show.^[6] At the 2008 Addy Award event in Roanoke, ND&P took home more Gold Addys than any other agency including Best in Print and Excellence in Art Direction and Copywriting. In Chattanooga's own Addy Award competition, ND&P also brought home the Best in Print and won multiple Gold Addy awards. ^[7]

[edit] History

In 1963 Howard Packett founded Brand Edmonds Packett, which was later changed to The Packett Group. Roger Neathawk, Susan Dubuque and Chuck Miller founded Market Strategies Inc. in 1984, changing the name to Neathawk Dubuque in 2000. In 2004 the Richmond, VA based Neathawk Dubuque merged with the Roanoke based Packett Group to form Neathawk Dubuque & Packett. In 2007, Neathawk Dubuque & Packett acquired Chattanooga, Tennessee based ddN. ^[8]