Clean Design Named Agency Of Record For CED

Clean Design, Inc. (www.cleandesign.com), a branding and design agency specializing in uncovering the insights and ideas that reveal a company’s brand truth, has announced that the firm has been named the agency of record for CED (www.cednc.org), formerly the Council for Entrepreneurial Development. As part of CED’s rebranding campaign, Clean Design has developed a new corporate identity and logo, and a new brand and marketing strategy to be rolled out over the coming year to improve recognition of CED’s mission among entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other stakeholders

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"We are extremely pleased with Clean Design’s leadership in conducting our rebranding," said CED President Joan Siefert Rose. "The new branding truly strikes at our core mission, which is to identify, enable and promote high-growth, high-impact companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of Research Triangle and North Carolina."

"CED’s tagline, ‘Start Something,’ is a call to action for the Triangle’s excellent technology and life sciences entrepreneurial community," said Natalie Perkins, president of Clean Design. "We are pleased to help CED communicate their mission of helping countless entrepreneurs turn their next great idea into a successful business."

DETAILS:
- CED unveiled its new branding at a 25th birthday party commemorating a quarter century of service to the Triangle’s entrepreneurial culture, held Sept. 25 in Durham, N.C.

ABOUT CLEAN DESIGN, INC.:
Clean Design, Inc. is a branding and design agency specializing in uncovering the insights and ideas that reveal a company’s brand truth. The agency works with some of the world’s most recognized brands including John Deere, Lenovo and Progress Energy. Clean Design provides branding, design, advertising, environmental design, interactive design, identity and packaging. The agency is committed to staying true to its purpose: to design anything better. Most recently, Clean Design was named the agency of record for The Umstead Hotel and Spa in Cary, N.C. Clean Design is one of the largest design agencies in the Triangle. For more information, please visit www.cleandesign.com.

ABOUT CED:
CED (formerly the Council for Entrepreneurial Development) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high-growth, high-impact companies and accelerate the region’s entrepreneurial culture. Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 5,500 active members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, programs and Web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, service partners, researchers and public policy makers in diverse emerging industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to service companies, from one-person startups to 1000-person businesses. Visit www.cednc.org for more information.

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