Mobium selected as Country’s Top Small Agency by Crain’s BtoB Magazine

2007-04-11

It’s a five-peat for Mobium Creative Group. The uber-creative B-to-B agency was just recognized as the country’s TOP small business-to-business agency by Crain’s BtoB Magazine. BtoB Magazine releases its annual “Top 50 Agencies” list based on a nationwide survey and Mobium has made the cut of the top three for the past five years in a row. This is the first year as the number one small business-to-business agency.

Several factors contributed to Mobium’s success in this ranking: Mobium saw a 20% increase in international clients, a 60% increase in global campaigns and a substantial increase in overall revenues. And the agency took a critical step in its development by “cloning” itself.

“If two heads are better than one, then two thriving agencies must be better than one as well. That’s what Mobium Creative Group found out when it "cloned" its Chicago office with another one in Minneapolis. Gordon Hochhalter, managing partner, prefers cloning to simply opening an office or branch because the Minneapolis Mobium is a standalone agency, not just an outpost of the original,” stated the publication in the April 2, 2007 issue.

"We have made this list several times, however being cited as the top agency in the country has a special feeling. Warm and fuzzy? No, more like the satisfaction of making a difference. We did some insanely great work for a lot of great clients with really cool problems, and that’s what we thrive on. Helping them turn the tremendous changes in the way business branding and communications takes place today into a competitive advantage is the real stuff. Getting recognized for it is the icing on the cake,” says Gordon Hochhalter, Managing Partner, Mobium Creative Group.

About Mobium Creative Group

Mobium Creative Group, with offices in Chicago and Minneapolis, is a full-service, integrated business branding and communications firm specializing in business-to-business integrated communications, branding, relationship marketing, channel marketing, interactive marketing, and information architecture. Clients include Time Warner Cable Business Class, CNH Global (CNH), Océ North America (NASDAQ: OCENY), Moog Inc. International, (NYSE: mog.a & mog.b), Herff Jones, Quest International, Literacy Chicago, Intermec Technologies, MapInfo Corporation and the University of Illinois Foundation.

The company was named agency of the year in 2003 by the Business Marketing Association and has been recognized as one of the top three business-to-business agencies its size for the last five consecutive years and the Top Agency of 2006 by Crain Communications’ BtoB magazine.

Mobium is also known for its educational Web site, which is an interactive book that helps business marketers, communicators, brand builders and change agents, as well as its own employees, better define revolutionary paradigm shifts in business communications and explore ways to take advantage of them. Mobium is a member of MDC Partners.