Builder Tony Pereira featured in credit union ad campaign
Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on February 10th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
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Southeast Portland bike builder Tony Pereira of Pereira Cycles is featured in a television and billboard ad campaign for Northwest Community Credit Union.
The ad features Tony working in his shop and some staged cyclocross action shots with Tony and his Team Beer teammates near the Alpenrose Velodrome in Portland's west hills. According to the agency that produced the campaign, the TV ads will run on NBC-TV (KMTR) in Eugene, Bend, and Medford. Billboards featuring Pereira are also in the works in those cities.
Here's my favorite line in the 30-second spot:
"Everything Tony builds is one of a kind. Like snowflakes. Torch-welded, metal, snowflakes. His credit union is unique too..."
And here's the ad:
Pereira isn't the first member of Portland's bike industry to get the attention of corporate America. Last summer, Natalie Ramsland of Sweetpea Bicycles was featured in a series of ads from Hewlett Packard, cycling cap maker Shaun Deller has been featured in a video for Nau apparel (read about both of those ad campaigns here), and Sacha White of Vanilla Bicycles has been featured in an ad campaign by Swedish clothing company Dunderdon.
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February 11th, 2009 00:21
Great exposure. Congrats, Tony!
-Sacha
February 11th, 2009 06:25
[...] Bike Portland is reporting on a new ad campaign by Northwest Community Credit Union which features Portland framebuilder Tony Pereira of Pereira Cycles. Not only are there some cool shots of his workshop shop (which make the 40+ hours of to build a frame look easy) but cyclocross makes an appearance at the end reminding me of Friday’s film fun. This seems to be a continuation of the trend of banks to capitalize on cycling’s renewed popularity. [...]
February 11th, 2009 10:42
Funny, because I have been looking for a righteous place to put my righteous dollars. I'll have to look into it but meanwhile, congratulations Tony P!
February 11th, 2009 12:19
Yea Tony !
Yea credit unions !
February 11th, 2009 19:42
Nice going Tony. You're in the money. haha...Ed
February 12th, 2009 15:54
Who's that beer chugging superfan in the background?
February 13th, 2009 14:20
Looks like fun Tony. I like that you ride what you preach! And anvil jigs are sooo sweet!