The Merchant Strategy, Inc. (TMS) is a woman owned small business operated by the company president Sharon Merchant, a life-long resident of South Florida and a former State Representative. The organization began serving clients in 2003, incorporating as The Merchant Strategy, Inc. in 2007. Sharon’s background provides the necessary skills, relationships, and contacts to work through government red tape. TMS has a team of professionals that offer extensive expertise in public involvement, government/community relations, crisis management and mixed media outreach. The team’s technical skills include creative graphics, website design and maintenance, social media, event promotions, and full-scale marketing activities. TMS pursues and develops new events and fundraisers through Dixie Visions, Inc., a non-profit corporation dedicated to providing charitable donations to community organizations. The TMS client list includes city governments, non-profit agencies, and industry leaders in transportation, architecture, engineering, construction, environmental services, small businesses, utilities, government, energy production and manufacturing. TMS is certified DBE by the Florida Department of Transportation and SBE by Palm Beach County, Florida, the South Florida Water Management District, and the City of West Palm Beach and MBE by the Palm Beach and Broward County School Districts and the State of Florida. TMS is located at 1804 North Dixie Highway, Suite B, West Palm Beach, Florida 33407. We are in a HubZone and in the Currie Corridor target area of the Northwood / Pleasant City district of the CRA.