Communique, Inc.

Communique, Inc. is a fully integrated public relations firm located in the heart of the Midwest. We specialize in communicating healthy messages for agricultural and food companies to help them reach out to healthcare professionals across America. Communique, Inc. came into existence in July 1979 in a spare bedroom equipped with a card table, a typewriter, and a rented answering machine. Founder Steve Veile had graduated with a bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri - Columbia and had built a solid foundation of communication experience and decided to take the plunge and start his own "creative writing service" in that spare bedroom of his home. In 1983, Communique, Inc. moved to its current location on East Capitol Avenue. In 1984, Veile hired Ed Stroesser, who served as president and chief operating officer - supplanted as of 2019 by Adam Veile, CEO and Sarah Alsager. Despite the agency's success at consumer advertising, having racked up several awards, and achieving a comfortably profitable position, Veile recognized in 1986 that retail advertising was not the road he wished Communique, Inc. to follow. With Stroesser, Veile led the agency in a new direction, choosing work with clients looking for targeted, more strategic solutions rather than simply an attention-getting advertisement. By the turn of the millennium, the agency had developed its major areas of expertise: agriculture, banking, telecommunications and associations. Now, Communique, Inc. has been cultivating healthy ideas for 40 years. The heart of our strategy is to "influence the influencers." By reaching key groups, like health professionals, researchers, and reporters, we can efficiently and economically affect the healthy eating habits (and purchasing decisions) of Americans and perceptions they may hold about agriculture and food.