Bernard & Company

Bernard & Company is an advertising and public relations agency in the Chicago area that focuses on industrial businesses selling to other industrial businesses. It combines press relations, marketing, design and social media for manufacturers and technology suppliers.

What Bernard & Company does

• Public relations: working with trade publications, journalists and producers to win news coverage.
• Advertising and design: campaigns, sales materials for reps and distributors, and trade show booths.
• Content marketing: strategic content plans matched to a client's business goals.
• Social media management: integrated social strategies for industrial brands.
• Campaign support: email campaigns, trade show promotion and product launch activity, plus measuring marketing returns.

Customers and markets

Its sectors include automotive, aerospace, metalworking, advanced materials, chemical coating, heat processing, plastics, rubber, industrial control, metrology, power tools, factory automation, engineering consulting and fastening. News releases cover clients such as ANCA, Zimmermann, Norm Fasteners and Platinum Tooling.

Key facts

• Based in: Chicago area, Illinois, United States
• Focus: industrial advertising and PR