Holmes Report Names Makovsky "Multispecialist Agency of the Year"

Holmes Report Names 2008 Specialist Agencies of the Year

Following strong 19 percent growth in 2008—the firm’s best performance in many a year—Makovsky + Company surpassed $10 million in fees for the first time (fee income was actually around $11 million) and ranked among the top 25 independents in the U.S., with new business from Bausch & Lomb, Coldwell Banker Commercial, Johnson Controls, Russell Reynolds, sanofi-aventis, and United Kingdom Trade & Investment. The firm’s greatest strength—one that spans its core practice areas in healthcare, technology, financial services and investor relations—has always been its ability to help clients communicate complex and often highly technical information to a broad audience in a way that makes it easy to understand and capable of driving business results, and it built on that ability over the past 12 months, producing intellectual capital highlighting the “green gap” between what company executives believe they should be doing to help the environment and their companies’ actual actions and introducing a new “sustainability consortium” with other professional service firms. Founder Ken Makovsky also expanded its social media offering—including a social media audit and a virtual newsroom product—while continuing his own blog...

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