Recent Work

Taco Cabana

It's a little known fact that Taco Cabana has been making Mexican food from scratch for over thirty years. Flame grilling the fajitas, adding fresh vegetables to the rice, making fresh flour tortillas - the beans alone take four hours to cook!  The “Obsession” campaign is the unvarnished truth about how Taco Cabana goes about making great-tasting Mexican food. The advertising showcases Taco Cabana cooks in the kitchen, who with great effort and care, prepare food by hand.


Virbac

Based in Nice, France, Virbac Animal Health is the largest independent pet pharmaceutical company in the world. While Virbac enjoys strong awareness of many of its brands and products, the company hired Calise and Sedei to help leverage the awareness of their individual product lines into a leadership position for the corporation.


Service Experts

A division of Lennox International, Service Experts operates 135 heating and air conditioning service centers in the U.S. and Canada.  Our agency was hired to  differentiate them in a category cluttered with “Mom and Pop” competitors.

Recent News

7.24.09

The Dallas Business Journal has chosen Charlie Calise, Chief Executive Officer of ©alise and Sedei, as the subject of “Enterprise Zone,” a feature which explores how the owners of North Texas-based small- and medium-sized businesses were able to conquer the challenges of building a successful organization.

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7.23.09

–©alise and Sedei has successfully deployed an online customer satisfaction survey that presents a referral form upon submission of high satisfaction scores from the user. This patent-pending business process was recently launched for client Service Experts, Inc., a division of Lennox International with 110 HVAC service centers in the U.S. and Canada.

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6.26.09

Two of ©alise and Sedei’s broadcast commercials for Taco Cabana’s “Great State of Cabana” campaign each have won 2009 Bronze Telly Awards.

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3.13.09

Charles Calise of Calise and Sedei has established a nonprofit organization, Brunch For A Bunch, which will host a series of four fundraising events for children’s charities each year. The organization's first event, scheduled for October 24, 2009 at Fearing’s Restaurant in the Ritz-Carlton, will benefit The Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children.

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10.29.08

Calise and Sedei will launch a completely redesigned and updated Web site at the beginning of November, featuring multiple creative elements from the advertising agency’s classic and recent campaigns. The Web site will present ©alise and Sedei’s mission: “Think Smart, Work Smart, and Do What is Smart for the Client’s Business.”

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