Kemper & Company

What Kemper & Company does

Kemper & Company is a privately held, founder-owned marketing consulting firm headquartered at 4550 Main Street, Suite 227, Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 2003 by Christine Kemper, who continues to serve as President, the firm operates with a small internal team supplemented by a partner network and positions itself as an entrepreneurial alternative to large agencies. Its service offering is an integrated suite of five capabilities: qualitative and quantitative market research, strategic planning and marketing plan development, communications and messaging development, advertising creative and campaign execution, and specialized marketing support (including focus group moderation, event coordination, media buying, and promotional/trade tactics). Underlying delivery relies on conventional consumer-insight and market research methodologies rather than any proprietary technology platform, software product, or AI/ML tooling.

The firm's client base spans large national and international enterprises (Hallmark, H&R Block, American Century Investments, Microsoft/Xbox, Fairmont Raffles Hotels International, Payless ShoeSource, Nieman Marcus, Dairy Farmers of America, Lockton Companies, Waddell & Reed – The Ivy Funds, C2FO, Andrews McMeel Universal, Walsworth Publishing, YouGov America), local and regional entities concentrated in the Kansas City area, and not-for-profit organizations (Goodwill of Western Missouri & Eastern Kansas, Park University, among others). Revenue is generated through professional services billed on a quote-based, project-by-project model, with a stated multi-year contract cadence. Distribution is direct: clients engage via the firm's website, phone (816-268-2570), or email ([email protected]), and growth is driven by referrals and existing relationships rather than paid marketing channels.

There is no disclosed external funding, no M&A activity, no geographic expansion beyond the U.S., no leadership transition since founding, no certifications or compliance credentials, and no patent or trademark filings in the available record. The company has maintained a stable founder-led operating posture and an unchanged small-team structure over 22 years, with no documented AI/ML capability adoption.

Name

Kemper & Company

Legal name

Kemper & Company

Website

https://kemperandcompany.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Kemper & Company is a privately held, founder-owned Kansas City marketing consulting firm founded in 2003 that provides market research, strategic planning, communications development, and advertising campaign execution to enterprise, regional, and nonprofit clients across multiple verticals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Marketing Consulting Services

NAICS

Marketing Consulting Services (541613), Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling (541910), Advertising Agencies (541810)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Advertising (7310)

akta.pro industry

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Strategy & Corporate Development Consulting

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Management Consulting

Keywords

• Marketing consulting services
• Market research
• Strategic communications
• Advertising campaign execution
• Consumer insight

Headquarters

HQ city

Kansas City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Marketing Consulting Services: Professional services revenue model providing marketing research, strategic planning, communications development, and advertising services. Services billed on project basis with clients paying only for services needed.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Kemper & Company is a marketing consulting firm that provides an integrated suite of services covering qualitative and quantitative market research, strategic marketing planning, communications and messaging development, advertising creative and campaign execution, and specialized marketing support (e.g., focus group moderation, event coordination, media buying). Clients can engage the firm for individual focused projects or use it as an outsourced full-service marketing department.

Product overview

Kemper & Company is a marketing consulting firm offering an integrated suite of services as a unified offering rather than discrete software products. The core portfolio consists of five interconnected service areas: Qualitative and Quantitative Research provides market intelligence and consumer insight; Strategic Planning and Marketing Plans aligns marketing with business objectives; Communications and Messaging Development crafts resonant brand narratives; Advertising Creative and Campaign Execution delivers campaigns across traditional and digital channels; and Specialized Marketing Support Services provides niche capabilities such as focus group moderation, event coordination, and media buying. Clients can engage individual services for focused projects or leverage the full-service team as an outsourced marketing department.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Quantifiable outcome

• Delivering marketing insights and strategies ahead of schedule and at or under budget

Named customers17 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Ogilvy: Global marketing and communications network offering strategy, advertising, PR, and consulting across all major industries — competes with Kemper for enterprise RFPs and offers overlapping research, strategy, and campaign execution capabilities at global scale.
• Edelman: Global communications and marketing firm providing research, brand strategy, advertising, and integrated campaigns for enterprise clients including several on Kemper's roster (Microsoft) — comparable in messaging development and strategic communications services.
• VMLY&R: Global marketing agency network headquartered in Kansas City with deep strategy, research, creative, and digital capabilities across all major verticals — a broad incumbent that competes with Kemper for the same enterprise clients but at significantly larger scale.
• Bernstein-Rein: Kansas City-headquartered advertising and marketing agency offering strategy, media, creative, and analytics to enterprise clients including Walmart, Kia, and Snap — a broad incumbent comparable in service breadth but materially larger than Kemper.

Direct peers

• Barkley: Kansas City-based independent integrated marketing agency offering strategy, creative, media, research, and digital services to enterprise clients — the most direct local peer to Kemper & Company with overlapping verticals and a similar mid-market/enterprise client mix.
• Trozzolo Communications Group: Kansas City-based integrated communications and marketing firm offering research, strategy, creative, PR, and digital services to enterprise, nonprofit, and public-sector clients — directly comparable horizontal services to Kemper.
• Signal Theory: Kansas City-based integrated marketing agency providing research, branding, advertising, and digital strategy for consumer and B2B brands; comparable to Kemper in its mid-sized regional structure and research-led strategic planning model.
• Callahan Creek: Kansas City-based creative and digital marketing agency serving enterprise and mid-market clients with strategy, branding, and campaign execution — directly comparable to Kemper's full-service positioning in the same regional market.
• Sullivan Higdon & Sink: Kansas City-based marketing agency focused on health, agriculture, and food/beverage verticals with research, brand strategy, and creative capabilities — comparable to Kemper's cross-vertical approach with adjacent industry overlap (healthcare clients like Children's Mercy).
• Hall & Partners: Research-led brand and marketing consultancy providing qualitative and quantitative consumer insight, brand strategy, and communications research for enterprise clients — directly comparable to Kemper's market research and consumer insight core offering.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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