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Company history

1981

12th August, Richmond, London: Text 100 founded by Tom Lewis and Mark Adams.

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 Communications 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

Ian Taylor MP, MBE joins as non-executive director.
David Dewhurst joins as Group Finance Director.
Bite Communications 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 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).
Inferno Communications opens in London.

2004

Will Whitehorn appointed as Chairman of Next Fifteen Communications Group plc. Tom Lewis remains on the Board as a Non-Executive director.
Bite opens an office in New York.

2005

Text 100 opens an office in Kuala Lumpar.
Microsoft relationship in the UK moved to Inferno.
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 the assets of Parachute marketing in the US.
Next Fifteen acquires a further 51% stake in Lexis PR takings its ownership to 76%.
Next Fifteen invested 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.