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Anne Gravingen and Bendik Romstad (born 25 October 1970 and 5 November 1969) are a married couple of advertising agents who have worked together continuously since they studied together at Westerdals School of Communication in 1994. Their agency, Kitchen Reklamebyrå, is now a unit of Leo Burnett Worldwide.
After working for Bates, Leo Burnett and New Deal, in 2002 Gravingen and Romstad participated in starting up the Kitchen advertising agency. It was sold in 2007 to the international agency Leo Burnett Worldwide and is now Leo Burnett Kitchen. In 2008, the couple were held to be the most award-winning creative team in Norwegian advertising. In 2006, with 11 golds, they were the most winning agency in the Gullblyanten national advertising contest. Gravingen is art director, Romstad copy writer. In 2009, a campaign designed by the couple with Mattis Bentzen for the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature won bronze at the London International Awards. In 2013, the agency was chosen to succeed the award-winning Dinamo communications company on the Norwegian Public Roads Administration road safety account. Other clients have included the Vossafår brand of sausages, for which they created the first television campaign in 1997, Sparebank 1, Flytoget, Norwegian Air Shuttle, and the Fretex resale unit of the Norwegian Salvation Army; their campaign for Fretex won the Aftenposten Best advertising award in 2008. As of January 2012, the agency's most profitable year was 2008, with an operating profit of 12.4 million kroner.
The couple, who met when they were both students at Westerdals, maintain a strict separation of work and home conversation. They have a getaway at an 1890 estate in Svartskog called Odden, which they have filled with antiques.