Mobium becomes an employee-owned agency

2008-12-05

Chicago – Mobium today announced that employees of the Chicago-based branding and communications firm have purchased the company from Colle+McVoy.

“The new ownership structure creates a tremendous opportunity for employees to pursue a new growth strategy and vision while continuing to create award-winning work for our clients,” said Mobium managing partner Gordon Hochhalter.

Mobium will continue to operate as a full-service, integrated business branding and communications firm. The agency offers core competencies in business branding, integrated marketing communications, interactive marketing, information architecture and relationship marketing. Mobium clients will not be affected by the transaction.

Mobium is led by Hochhalter and Bob Goranson who will serve as managing partners.

The firm will temporarily remain in its current offices at 444 N. Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

About Mobium

Mobium is a full-service integrated business branding and communications firm specializing in business-to-business integrated communications, branding, relationship marketing, database marketing interactive marketing, and information architecture. Clients include Pitney Bowes MapInfo, Herff Jones, Kaplan Financial, Accent Marketing, Literacy Chicago, Intermec Technologies, Munich Re America Healthcare and the University of Illinois Foundation among others.

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, the Top Agency of 2006 by Crain’s BtoB Magazine and Creative Team of the Year in 2008 by BMA. Visit www.mobium.com for more information.