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One of the three current New York city offices became part of the LBi group of companies after merging with IconMedialab in the 1990s. This was previously Tom
Nicholson Associates, a company started by Thomas J Nicholson in 1987. It was located in the historic
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in a move to boost its search capabilities. Lucy Allen was retained as
Managing Director, with Manley leading the new Exeter office through to the Publicis Groupe acquisition in 2012. LBi beat WPP Group and a second undisclosed bidder to buy the agency.
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Atlanta office was led by Joe Schab and became part of LBi upon the acquisition of Creative Digital Group in 2007. In 2011, Lisa Campbell Harper was named Managing Director and led the Atlanta division until the merger with Digitas in 2013.
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Special Ops for $ 45m. Special Ops co-founders, Jason Klein and Christian Anthony, were both exited from LBi in a management restructure late in 2010.
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Obtineo and the company delisted from the Swedish stock exchange. Obtineo was composed of digital agency bigmouthmedia and €50m of new investment from the
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Exchange in Stockholm (symbol: LBI). LB is an acronym for Lost Boys, Icon was formerly named Icon Medialab, Framfab was Framtidsfabriken - the Future Factory.
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services such as design, branded content, mobile, CRM and social media. In 2012, Publicis Groupe bought LBi for €416m in cash, and in 2013 merged the company with
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404:References
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83:Key people
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671:Archived
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361:Timeline
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311:ABN Amro
243:Brussels
217:to form
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131:to form
56:Industry
452:10 June
271:Hamburg
251:Cologne
235:Atlanta
225:Offices
215:Digitas
160:Framfab
156:LB Icon
150:History
144:Digitas
129:Digitas
113:Website
102:Revenue
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307:Zurich
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