“The more categories & cultures you work in, the more likely you are to draw inspiration from one place and re-apply it elsewhere. Remarkable parallels exist between categories you would never suspect, like bathtubs and desserts. Cross-category inspiration often results in remarkable ideas and brilliant-in-hindsight strategies.”

–Jim Link

Idea-Link’s work covers a diverse range of consumer and business-to-business clients. Most are big companies with household names; some are smaller companies with alluring opportunities.

So far, Idea-Link’s work spans over 160 different categories, 70 companies and 15 countries.

What’s most important: companies call us back. Many call again and again and again. We like that.

Over the years, we’ve had the pleasure of working with and learning from some terrific companies. Here are some of them:

3M
AbleNet
American Medical Systems
Andersen Windows
Armor All
Augusta National (The Masters)
Blue Bunny
Breadsmith
Cadbury-Adams, USA
Campbell Mithun
Cargill
Case
Cereal Partners Worldwide
Clorox
Con-Agra
CSN (Breathe-Right)
DDB Needham
Del Monte
Ecowater
The Fonda Group
General Electric
G&K Services

General Mills/Pillsbury
Genesys Health Systems
Heinz/Starkist
Helene Curtis
HighJump Software, Inc.
Homestead Village Hotels
Hunt-Wesson
Kraft
Kohler
Land ‘O Lakes
Levi Strauss
Little Rapids Paper Company
Lloyd’s Barbeque
Louis Kemp Seafood Company
Lund’s & Byerly’s Grocery Stores
Marriott
McDonald’s
McKesson
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Nabisco
National Dairy Council
New Holland

Nestle
Oscar Mayer
Patterson Dental
Pepsi
Purina
Red Wing Shoe Company
St. Mary’s Duluth Clinics
Sargento Foods
SC Johnson & Son
Schwan’s
Select Comfort
Skyline Design & Exhibits
Smead Manufacturing Company
Target
Tennant
Thrivent
The Toro Company
Tropicana
Tyson Foods
Wam!Net
Windstar Cruises
Winfield Solutions

Abrasives

Agricultural Equipment

Air Care

Apparel

Asian Food

Assistive Technology (for the Disabled)

Automotive Care

Automotive Systems

Bakery Retailing

Bathroom Fixtures

Beds

Breakfast & Snack Bars

Butter & Spreads

Carpet Care

Catalogue Retailing

Cereal (all sub-categories)

Cheese

Combines

Commercial Landscape Equipment and Services

Construction Equipment

Consumer electronics

Consumer Sampling

Cookies

Crackers

Credit Cards

Dental Supplies

Desserts and Baking Products

Education

Educational Software

Electronic File Delivery

Financial Services

Fish & Seafood

Fitness Equipment

Floor Care

Food Service: Schools

Food Service: Technology

Food Service: B&I

Food Service: Convenience Stores

Food Service: Hotels

Food Service: QSR & Casual

Frozen Baked Goods

Frozen Dinners

Furnace Filters

Golf

Grocery Merchandising

Grocery Retailing

Gum & Mints

Hair Care

Health Clubs

Home Decor

Home Improvement

Hotels

Icecream & Confections

Internet Content Delivery

Inventory Management

Irrigation Systems

Juice

Kids Beverages

Kids Snacks

Lighting

Magazines

Meal Kits

Meat & Seafood

Medical Devices

Medical: Female Pelvic Health

Medical: Infection Prevention

Medical: Male ED

Mexican Food

Milk

Mowers (commercial)

Mowers (residential)

Museums
OEM and After Market Automotive Parts & Supplies

Office Supplies

Paper Manufacturing

Paper Supplies

Pet Care

Pizza

Popcorn

Productivity Software

Quick Service Restaurant

Refrigerated Baked Goods

Refrigerated Dinners

Respirators

Safety Equipment

Senior Care

Shelf Stable Dinners

Side Dishes

Snow Blowers

Soda

Soup

Soy Beverages

Tape and Adhesives

Telecommunications

Tractors

Travel

Turf Management Equipment and Software

Warehousing Software

Water Filtration

Water Softening

Window and Doors

Yogurt

The more categories & cultures you work in, the more likely you are to draw inspiration from one place and re-apply it elsewhere. There are remarkable parallels between categories you would never suspect, like bathtubs and desserts. This cross-category and cross-cultural fertilization results in some remarkable ideas.

Idea-Link’s work covers a diverse range of consumer and business-to-business categories, as well as developed and developing countries across the world:

ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, BRAZIL, CANADA, CHILE, CHINA, COSTA RICA, ENGLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, MEXICO, SCOTLAND, SWITZERLAND, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA