Bucking the advertising industry’s trend of brief client-agency relationships, The Tombras Group - a marketing communications agency headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee - was recently honored at a McDonald’s corporate convention for 35 years of service to co-ops in the Atlanta, GA, and Raleigh, NC, Regions.

For more than three decades, The Tombras Group has served a key role in making the McDonald’s global brand messages relevant to consumers in local markets. This is done through strategic media planning and buying, creation and coordination of special promotions, production of radio and television spots and outdoor boards, and development of point-of-purchase materials.

The Tombras Group’s relationship with McDonald’s dates back to 1970 when the Cochran family hired the agency to provide advertising services for its Knoxville-area McDonald’s locations. Since that time, The Tombras Group has become the agency of record for four McDonald’s owner/operator groups in the Southeastern U.S.

With annual billings in excess of $76 million and headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, The Tombras Group is one of the largest independently owned advertising agencies in the southern United States. Tombras is the oldest Tennessee advertising agency, the largest Knoxville advertising agency and has branch offices in Nashville and Johnson City, Tennessee; Washington, DC; Charleston, South Carolina; and Fort Collins, Colorado. As a full-service advertising agency, Tombras offers advertising, marketing, branding, web design, corporate branding, search engine optimization, integrated marketing communications and marketing research services. For more information, visit www.tombras.com.