Business: Marketing communications agency specializes in creating brands and developing product launches and promotions for food-related companies in the retail and food-service channels
Founded: 1995
Headquarters: Minneapolis
Website: www.infoodmarketing.com
Employees: 10
Executives: Anita Nelson, president/accounts supervisor; Lori Gerdts, vice president/creative director
2007 revenue: $650,000
Strategy: Provide creative ways for clients to deal with rising costs and the economic slowdown, identify nonfood clients to grow business, look for new offices with potential kitchen and retail space

Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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