Company History

1982

  • Text 100 client wins include Microsoft and Fortune Systems.

1984

  • Tim Dyson hired as an account executive.

1988

  • Text 100 opens an office in Paris.
  • Tim Dyson becomes a director in the UK.

1990

  • Text 100’s turnover exceeds £2 million.
  • Clive Armitage joins Text 100.
  • Aedhmar Hynes joins Text 100.

1991

  • Text 100 breaks into top 30 of PR Week’s league table of UK PR businesses.

1992

  • Text 100 opens office in Dublin.

1993

  • Text 100 wins the account of Frame Technology, its first retainer-based European PR campaign run through all Text 100 offices.

1994

  • Text 100’s turnover exceeds £5 million. Text 100 offices open in Munich and Johannesburg.

1995

  • Bite is opened in London.
  • Text 100 opens offices in Amsterdam, and in Seattle – its first US office.
  • Text 100 receives recognition at PR Week Awards for Microsoft and Bull campaigns.
  • Text 100 launches ‘Duvet Days’ to huge applause from the European media, securing coverage in the Financial Times and on the BBC.
  • Text 100 wins UK PR Softball Championship!

1996

  • Text 100’s profit before tax exceeds £1 million.
  • Text 100 opens offices in Stockholm and New Delhi.

1997

  • Text 100 Group plc (holding Text 100 and Bite) established, and floats on OFEX.
  • Group turnover exceeds £11 million.
  • Text 100 Spain opens in Madrid.
  • Text 100 India opens its second office, in Bangalore.
  • Text 100 US opens three new offices: Boston, San Francisco, and Rochester.
  • Aedhmar Hynes becomes a director.

1998

  • Text 100 opens offices in Sydney, Milan, Tokyo, Mumbai and Singapore.
  • Text 100 US wins Xerox Channels Group PR account.
  • Text 100 wins Gartner Group Europe.
  • Text 100 wins Microsoft EMEA.

1999

  • David Dewhurst joins as Group Finance Director.
  • Bite opens in San Francisco.
  • Text 100 opens in Hong Kong.
  • Text 100 Group plc floats on the London Stock Exchange.

2000

  • Text 100 opens in New York.
  • Text 100 Group plc changes its name to OneMonday Group plc.

2001

  • Text 100 appointed by IBM to handle its product PR worldwide.
  • Text 100 awarded PR Consultancy of the Year 2001, European Technology Forum.

2002

  • Bite Sweden opens.
  • Bite UK wins Sun Microsystems.
  • Text 100 is awarded Technology PR Agency of the Year, 2001, Holmes Report.
  • OneMonday agrees to sell the rights to its name to PwC for $5m and changed its name to Next Fifteen Communications Group plc.
  • Text 100 opens an office in Beijing.

2003

  • Text 100 opens offices in Shanghai and Copenhagen.
  • Bite acquires the PR business of Applied Communications in San Francisco and Amsterdam (the latter of which was merged with Text 100).

2004

  • Bite opens an office in New York.

2005

  • Text 100 opens an office in Kuala Lumpur.
  • Next Fifteen acquires OutCast Communications, based in San Francisco and New York.
  • Next Fifteen acquires the remaining minority shares in Bite Group, making it a 100%-owned subsidiary.
  • Next Fifteen acquires a 25% stake in UK Consumer PR agency Lexis PR.
  • Bite acquires Credo Communications in the UK.
  • Text 100 opens an office in Oslo.

2006

  • Next Fifteen acquires a further 51% stake in Lexis PR takings its ownership to 76%.
  • Next Fifteen invests a 40% stake in 463 Communications LLC, a start-up policy communications business based in Washington DC and San Francisco.

2007

  • Bite opens offices in Hong Kong and Beijing
  • Redshift Research is established.
  • Text 100 opens an office in Chennai.

2008

  • Next Fifteen completes final purchase of Lexis PR
  • Bite acquires business of AIMPR Public Relations AB, a company based in Stockholm and integrated it into Bite’s existing Swedish operation.
  • Seattle and Dublin offices at Text 100 closed.

2009

  • Next Fifteen acquires New York-based M Booth, a leading consumer PR agency in North America.
  • Next Fifteen acquires 55% of Upstream Asia. This involved offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney which were integrated into Bite.
  • Next Fifteen acquires a further 30% of 463 Communications LLC.

2010

  • Next Fifteen acquires a further 6% of 463 Communications LLC, taking its interest to 76%.
  • Bite acquires the business of OneXeno, a boutique digital agency in Hong Kong.
  • Lexis acquires the entire issued share capital of Glasshouse Partnership Limited, a corporate communications and marketing agency in the UK.
  • Next Fifteen launches Beyond, a digital consultancy created by the coming together of Context Analytics, Project Metal and Type 3, a digital agency with offices in San Francisco and London.
  • Next Fifteen acquires an 85% stake in San Francisco-based The Blueshirt Group, LLC, an investor relations company that services the technology market. Blueshirt also has an office in New York.

2011

  • Richard Eyre is appointed as Chairman of Next Fifteen Communications Group plc.
  • Next 15 acquires an 80% stake in CMG Worldwide Limited, trading as Bourne, a global, full-service digital agency with offices in Glasgow, London and New York.
  • Alicja Lesniak is appointed as non-executive director and Senior Independent Director of Next Fifteen Communications Group plc.
  • Margit Wennmachers is appointed as non-executive Director of Next Fifteen Communications Group plc.

2012

  • Bite Communications, a strategic communications consultancy, merges with Bourne, a fast-growing UK-based creative digital marketing agency, to become Bite, a global marketing services agency.

2013

  • Next 15 acquires an 80% stake in Connections Media LLC, a Washington DC based integrated communications digital agency specialising in politics and public affairs. Connections Media also has an office in New York

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