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Business on the Move Vice & Virtue offers event planning, creative services [The Frederick News-Post, Md. :: ](Frederick News-Post (MD) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) July 30--Patrick Currier and Michael Baisey have opened Vice & Virtue LLC in Frederick, offering event planning, marketing and creative services. What led you to launch this business? The Vice & Virtue vision originates from our philosophy of enjoying life to the fullest and being committed to helping others. Guided by this simple philosophy and a penchant for nonconformity, Vice & Virtue set out to create a company focused on recognizing the opportunity to enjoy life's vices -- be it food, drink or party -- while giving back to our community. What is unique about it? In a word: everything. We are redefining event management, while distinguishing ourselves from the traditional business model. We put purpose before profit. We embrace challenges and welcome pressure. We thrive on new ideas, and we have a blast creating them. And we take our work seriously, but ourselves not so much. What do you do that nobody else does? We build original ideas, rather than just organize events or create ads. Also, we donate 15 percent of all company profits to local charitable causes. This creates new opportunities that can move our community forward. We like to think of it as the next generation of giving. Why do you believe you'll be successful? We do things differently. Our skill set and experience allows us to manage all details of a project from end to end in an affordable, professional and customized manner. This translates into providing distinctive and memorable solutions that exceed expectations. Tell us something specific about your business field, who your customers are or how you see a new business doing in a challenging economy. Our customers and partners include local businesses and organizations as well as community members. With our community's support, we can support great causes with events of equal caliber. We believe our community deserves new, exciting events, and we look forward to building those for everyone. The Vice & Virtue Team: Vice & Virtue co-founder Patrick Currier is a lawyer by trade. Not exactly the customary path for starting an event company. Business partner Michael Baisey has a decade's worth of experience in event planning and marketing in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. Both are natives of Frederick County. The business has two employees. Contact Vice & Virtue LLC 518 Grant Place, Frederick 240-405-6058 www.vicenvirtue.com [email protected] ___ (c)2014 The Frederick News-Post (Frederick, Md.) Visit The Frederick News-Post (Frederick, Md.) at www.fredericknewspost.com Distributed by MCT Information Services |