written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . july 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message cossette is a canadian marketing communications company that provides integrated communications services . headquartered in quebec city the company has offices across canada in halifax quebec city montreal toronto winnipeg edmonton and vancouver and a full time staff of approximately 650 people . contents 1 history 1.1 clients 1.2 acquisitions 1.3 industry rankings 2 external links 3 references history edit cossette was launched as a graphic design firm by claude cossette in june 1964 and relaunched in may 1972 by claude lessard along with five partners including claude cossette himself under the name cossette communication marketing in quebec city . 1 the company expanded to montreal in 1974 opened in toronto in 1981 and by 1985 added its fourth canadian office in vancouver . 2 clients edit throughout these years cossette s reputation grew in canada along with a client list made up of many leading brand names including such companies as mcdonald s 3 general motors 4 general mills 5 bank of montreal 6 procter & gamble 7 and nike inc. 8 acquisitions edit cossette went public in 1999 with shares trading on the montreal and toronto stock exchanges . 9 three years later cossette established a foothold in europe with the acquisition of london based identica a world leader in design and brand management . within the same year cossette added public relations to its european portfolio with the acquisition of the band and brown communications also a london based company that services clients across europe . 10 in 2005 cossette purchased a 51 % stake in london ad agency miles calcraft briginshaw duffy mcbd and its subsidiary elvis communications . 11 cossette continued its expansion in the u.k. two years later with the acquisition of dare digital a leading digital agency based in london as well as rocketxl a social marketing agency based in los angeles . 12 in 2009 cossette returned to private ownership when connecticut based private equity firm mill road capital purchased all outstanding shares of cossette . cossette is majority owned by mill road capital with management also owning a significant share . 13 in 2010 the original cossette organization was reorganized under a holding company structure . the new holding company vision7 international has three operating companies cossette the canadian integrated marketing communications company ; vision7 media a media planning and buying company ; and edc a group of discipline specific agencies operating in canada the u.k. and u.s. 14 industry rankings edit cossette was named agency of the year in 1988 and 1991 and newsmaker of the year in 1986 by canadian advertising and marketing trade publication marketing magazine . 15 external links edit cossette s origins official website cossette twitter cossette facebook cossette linkedin references edit claude lessard chairman and chief executive officer vision 7 international . post & partners of new york joins cossette communication group . . mcdonald s operators of chicagoland and northwest indiana hire cossette as new lead advertising . where gm sits in canada s media landscape . general mills consolidates digital with cossette . bmo s great feelings . p & g to give moms an olympic salute . cossette media nabs nike . cossette communication marketing . en bref cossette acquiert identica . cossette pays 7.8 m for mcbd . cossette buys dare digital . vision7 international formerly known as cossette inc. . cossette vision7 canada . marketing agency of the year pdf . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cossette inc. & oldid 740698839 categories advertising agencies of canadacompanies based in quebec cityhidden categories articles with a promotional tone from july 2014all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 22 september 2016 at 18 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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