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Marketing agencies feel mixed effects from current economic downturn (access required)

by Simon Shifrin
Published: November 10,2008
Time posted: 1:00 am

The economic slowdown has caused some uneven effects in the Treasure Valley marketing industry, with many agencies holding steady and others laying off employees and working under clients’ shrinking budgets.Oliver Russell, a Boise agency that now employs 16 people, has laid off eight people this year – four in May and four in September, said ...



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