Partner for Progress 2026 - Merck

An Invitation for Partnership with the Missouri Veterinary Medical Association

Partners for Progress

Missouri Veterinary Medical Association 2500 Country Club Drive, Jefferson City, MO 65109 573-636-8612 • Fax: 573-659-7175 • Email: mvma@movma.org Dear Merck Animal Health, Thank you for being part of our MVMA Partner for Progress program. Your sponsorship this past year helped us create meaningful opportunities for our members and provide your company with visibility, access, and connection throughout Missouri’s veterinary community.

As you begin planning for the upcoming year, I wanted to personally invite you to renew your sponsorship for the 2026–2027 cycle, which runs from August through July. You’ll find an enclosed summary that highlights the many ways your support has made an impact—and what you can expect by continuing as a Partner.

The annual MVMA Partners for Progress sponsorships is a base of $5,435 and includes a wide range of benefits such as complimentary convention booths, high-visibility recognition, web and app presence, and more. If you’d like to expand your reach, we continue to offer a $6,875 level, which includes four full-page, full-color ads in the Missouri Veterinary Quarterly—a professional publication sent to over 2,000 veterinary professionals across the state.

The 2027 MVMA Convention is part of this sponsorship year, so if you’d like to be included in the promotions and exhibitor priority access, please let us know soon. We’re happy to offer flexible billing, either in this calendar year or by January 31, 2027.

As always, please feel free to reach out if you’d like to talk through any of the options or have someone else on your team handle the renewal. We’d love to continue working with you in the year ahead.

With appreciation,

Julie R. Braun Executive Director Missouri Veterinary Medical Association jrbraun@movma.org

Benefits of Partnership ANNUAL CONVENTION Partnership includes up to two complimentary booths ($1,690 value) at the January 2027 Missouri Veterinary Medical Association’s Annual Convention. With MVMA registrants, and other associated group meetings like the Missouri Veterinary Technician Association, Missouri Licensing Board, and the MUCollege of Veterinary Medicine, the resulting attendance is over 700 persons including veterinarians, technicians, practice staff and students.

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This electronic newsletter is packed with timely information Missouri’s veterinarians need. Over 2,000 MVMA active and student members look forward to each issue.

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Partnership can include a deep discount on a year-round, full-page advertisment in the MVMA’s full-color magazine, the “Missouri Veterinary Quarterly” (a $560 discount) .

If you elect to be a Partner For Progress sponsor, you can receive a full-color ad in each issue.

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In addition to an advertising discount in the Quarterly magazine, Merck Animal Health will receive a logo and link to the company website on the MVMA homepage.

Also included is an online directory listing contact information for Merck Animal Health’s sales representatives (see next page).

The directory is used year-round and is a popular resource for our members.

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Benefits of Partnership

2026 MVMA Officers

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS Your representative serves on our elite Advisory Council which is integrally involved in the speaker and vendor programs for the annual convention.

Lynn Martin, DVM President

Jason Nickell, DVM President-Elect

Laura Moon, DVM Vice President

Shelia Taylor, DVM Secretary-Treasurer

Merck Animal Health will be on the Partners For Progress pre-mailing for Exhibitors.

This allows extra time to get your first choice for booth location by returning your form earlier.

You will receive a link to your website from the MVMA homepage (www.movma.org). Updates are made constantly to the MVMA website making it a truly useful site that our veterinary members visit frequently.

Commercial links on the MVMA website will be limited to Partner For Progress Sponsors and partner programs.

Partners for Progress members have first opportunities to sponsor district meetings and provide speakers to get in front of veterinarians on a local level.

During the annual convention, attendees are given a punch card eligible for a winning prize that drives them to Partners for Progress booths. Recent prizes included a Yeti Cooler, custom fire pit, and a Mini-Max Big Green Egg grill.

As a 2026-2027 PFP Sponsor, we will give Merck Animal Health a prime opportunity to be considered for providing a non-commercial speaker for continuing education at the annual convention in January 2027.

The company will also be given the first level of opportunity to pick speaker sponsorships available at the MVMA Convention.

As plans for other activities and projects develop, you can count on the fact that our Partner For Progress Sponsors will not be forgotten.

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Please join us.

Julie R. Braun MVMA Executive Director

Missouri Veterinary Medical Association Julie R. Braun Executive Director 2500 Country Club Drive Jefferson City, MO 65109 Phone: 573-636-8612 • Fax: 573-659-7175 Email: mvma@movma.org • Website: www.movma.org

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