Agency: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Agency

  • a relationship between two people or organizations in which one is empowered to act on behalf of the other in dealings with a third party

Wiktionary Definition for: Agency

  • The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
  • Ex: The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. --Woodward.
  • The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one entrusted with the concerns of another.
  • The place of business of an agent.

Additional Resources

Advertising Agency Agreement
This Advertising Agency Agreement ("Agreement") is made and effective this [Date], by and between [Advertiser] ("Advertiser") and [Agency] ("Agency"). Agency is in the business of providing advertising agency services for a fee. Advertiser desires to engage Agency to render, and Agency desires to render to Advertiser, certain advertising agency services,...
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Tools & templates 2007-09-06
Letter To Employment Agency
Planning to change the job? But before enrolling to any employment agency it is better to have knowledge about that agency. Here is a template that will help you in inquiring about the services of that employment agency.
Tags: Agency, Best Sample Letters, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Hiring An Advertising Agency
Use this template to inform the advertising agency that your firm has decided to procure services with that agency and to asking time for reviewing and signing the contract.
Tags: Hiring, Advertising Agency, Advertisement, LetterPremier.com, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
My Ad Agency is Better Than Your Ad Agency; Harris Interactive to Conduct the 13th Bi-Annual Advertising Agency Reputation Study
Business Editors
Tags: advertisement, advertising agency, Harris Interactive
Research articles 2000-12-19
Forrester's Van Boskirk Headlines ExactTarget's Agency Day at Email Global Conference; 150 agency partners kick off Global Conference with day dedicated to agency channel
INDIANAPOLIS -- Nearly 150 interactive agency marketers kicked off the ExactTarget Global Conference with Agency Day at ExactExcellence, a day-long seminar just for agencies featuring networking, best practices, case studies and selling strategies. This marks the second Agency Day sponsored by ExactTarget, which has 350 agency partners located throughout North...
Tags: agency, e-mail, Forrester Research Inc.
Research articles 2005-09-27
Terminating Advertising Agency: Other Reason
Use this template to inform the advertising agency that you are going to terminate the services with that agency because of few reasons.
Tags: Advertising Agency, Advertisement, LetterPremier.com, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Reebok picks agency. (advertising agency Hill Holiday Connors for athletic shoe manufacturer)
Reebok picks agency Reebok picks agency
Tags: advertisement, Reebok International Ltd.
Research articles 1990-04-23
itelligence, Inc. Announces it.agency, a Vertical Solution for Agency and Media Companies; SAP-Qualified Solution Enables Synergy of Agency Management Functions and Processes
Business Editors and High Tech Writers
Tags: agency, SAP AG
Research articles 2001-10-02
Hiring An Advertising Agency For Your Small Business
"This case study defines about the case of the company that hire an advertising agency. These agency build greater awareness of our innovative product, our marketing staff took a fresh look at the sales forecast and developed a lead generation program. It called for a combination of public relations,...
Tags: Small Business, Advertisement, Advertising Agency, Hiring, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
Case studies 2002-01-01
What is the EPA's Mission?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA is the primary federal agency responsible for safeguarding the environment and protecting human health from pollution. Since 1970, the agency has used three guiding principles to govern its work: results and accountability: innovation and collaboration; and best available science. Each year, the agency publishes...
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Research articles 2008-03-01
LCNB Corp. Announces Insurance Agency Acquisition
LEBANON, Ohio -- LCNB Corp.(OTCBB:LCNB) announced its subsidiary, Dakin Insurance Agency, Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of the Altemeier Oliver and Company Agency, Inc. AOC. AOC is an independent insurance agency located in Blue Ash, Ohio.
Tags: insurance
Research articles 2006-06-01
Terminating Advertising Agency: Displeased With Results
Use this template to inform the advertising agency that you are going to terminate the services with that agency because of not satisfied with the results.
Tags: Advertising Agency, Advertisement, LetterPremier.com, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
Discover Financial Services Selects The Martin Agency as Agency of Record
RIVERWOODS, Ill. -- Discover Financial Services LLC, a business unit of Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), announced today that it has selected The Martin Agency as its advertising agency of record for its DiscoverR Card business.
Tags: agency, Discover Financial Services
Research articles 2006-04-19
Staples hires new broadcast ad agency - Market Watch - Martin/Williams Advertising - Brief Article
BOSTON -- Office supply retailer Staples has hired Omnicom Group's Martin/Williams Advertising agency to head up its broadcast advertising. The agency will be in charge of developing and producing Staples' broadcast ads, while the chain's print advertising, direct and interactive marketing will remain under the hands of Staples' internal agency....
Tags: agency, Staples Inc.
Research articles 2002-07-29
Clear Springs names Scott agency of record
BUHL, IDAHO -- Rainbow trout producer Clear Springs Foods said it had appointed Scott Advertising as its agency of record following the retirement of Steve Young, head of Clear Springs' longtime agency, Steve Young & Associates. Clear Springs worked for 30 years with Young's agency. Young spent the last year...
Tags: agency, Clear
Research articles 2004-09-20
Campbell-Ewald looks beyond Chevy ; Once labeled a captive GM shop, the agency has brought in $450 mil in new business.(Brief Article)
The agency obscured in the shadow of Chevrolet has come into its own. The agency obscured in the shadow of Chevrolet has come into its own.
Tags: agency, General Motors Corp.
Research articles 2000-08-07
Conill connects cultures via feelings that resonate; Agency makes its presence known on Super Bowl, brings clarity to Toyota and T-Mobile.(Special Report: Agency of the Year)(Agency overview)
Byline: LAUREL WENTZ Byline: LAUREL WENTZ
Tags: agency, T-Mobile, Toyota Motor Corp.
Research articles 2007-01-08
St. Paul Agency, Inc. Joins Bank of the West Subsidiary
FARGO, N.D. -- Bank of the West announced today its wholly-owned subsidiary, BW Insurance Agency, Inc., BWIA has acquired St. Paul Agency, Inc., a full service insurance agency involved in insurance, risk management and asset protection, based in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Research articles 2006-12-04
EPA Eases '06 Diesel Sulfur Schedule
Less than a month after a top Environmental Protection Agency official said the agency would leave intact its 2006 timetable for requiring trucks to use ultralow-sulfur diesel fuel, the agency announced it was loosening its schedule.
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2005-07-01
Sample Agency Recruiter's Resume
Agency recruiter is one of the very fastest growing professions in this contemporary time. In this resume candidate's background summary plays an important role so; the concept of this is duly comprised with this sample agency recruiter resume.
Tags: Agency, Best Sample Resume, Agency Recruiter, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
Tools & templates 2008-01-01
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