Company Name: Guerra DeBerry Coody
Location: San Antonio, TX
Nature of Business: Advertising, marketing, public relations
Founded: 1995
Revenue: $51 million
Number of Employees: 61
Average Tenure: 4 years
Since its inception in 1995, Guerra DeBerry Coody (GDC) has fought for the working family while
securing premier clients in both the U.S. and Mexico. With steady growth over the years in advertising,
marketing, and public relations, this full-service firm has pioneered the shape of the family-friendly
workplace. When the state of Texas challenged the company's efforts to continue on-site childcare for
their employees, parents and partners successfully lobbied the state to have laws changed allowing every
small business in the state the same opportunity. Whereas the atmosphere in business may have once
been cold to any mention of children, GDC is a gleaming example of how profitability and success
need not come at the expense of people as both professionals and parents. Family culture is at the very
core here, and its 57 employees consider their on-site, parent-driven and partner-supported childcare
program fundamental to the nature of the organization as a whole. With 100 percent paid maternity and
paternity leave, transportation reimbursement and emergency employee loans, team members "go home
happy and come in to work happy." Open book finances and a health and wellness program for "Mind,
Body and Soul" support the notion that the group is all in it together, functioning as a high quality outfit, and yes, one big family.
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