The owners were so good to us all three of them. Even now, few want to speak publicly about the man who crossed their paths every day, knowing full well he was stealing from them. Still, he seldom missed the company s bimonthly happy hour, and in fact, he usually picked up the tab. It consistently made the Dallas Business Journal s list of Dallas top 10 advertising firms, and the company won a handful of Addys, Effies, and other industry awards. The fact that they managed to stay independent is pretty impressive, too.
Consolidation is a fact of life in the advertising industry.
There were 250 mergers last year alone. During Hradecky and Schieber s time at Berry-Brown, any inquiry into an acquisition was usually over within two meetings. This time meetings went on for nearly six months. With a deal on the verge of being inked, the two companies had a meeting set up for October 18 to begin due diligence. But Schieber was a no-show.