Brands & Company, LLC. joins The Innovation Applied Network

On-demand network of cross-functional highly skilled business specialists

CORAL SPRINGS, FLORIDA – June 11, 2009 – Robert F. Brands, President of Brands & Company, LLC announced today that Brands & Company has joined The Innovation Applied Network.

As “Innovation Coach” and innovation specialist, Brands was able to compliment Innovation Applied Network of experienced and seasoned senior executives in a variety of business expertise from Marketing to Sales Strategies.

Innovation Applied was founded in the fall of 2008 and is 19 members strong, including 3 managing partners. Customers range in wide variety of size and are spread between Business to Business and Consumer goods.

About Brands & Company, LLC
Brands & Company, LLC is a management consulting firm. The firm, founded and headed up by Robert F. Brands, focuses on creating and sustaining innovation in business. Operating as “Innovation Coach” Brands is promoting a “Sustained Innovation Commitment” to deliver profitable growth, for more details visit http://www.www.innovationcoach.com.

Brands has over 25 years of hands-on experience in creating innovation. Having worked in new product development and marketing at Philips Lighting, Sylvania and the Kohler Company. Most recently, he served as Managing Director of the Personal Care Division of Rexam Plastics. Prior to Rexam and since 1998, Brands built (Rexam)Airspray N.V., now a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and supply of innovative non-aerosol foam technology like instant foaming hand soap.