How it started
History
The agency was founded in 1976 in Milwaukee, and it entered the Chicago market in 1998 and New York in 2009. Founded as Frankenberry, Laughlin, Bernstein & Persa, changes in partnership led the agency to the name Laughlin Constable in 1992.
Laughlin Constable began as an advertising and added public relations services in 1978. It was named one of the nation's fastest-growing agencies by Adweek in 1993.
In 1998, Laughlin Constable purchased N.W. Ayer and opened an office in Chicago.
In 2005, it acquired the Chicago PR agency Grant/Jacoby. Then, in 2007, the agency acquired GreenHouse, a Chicago-based boutique agency. Soon after, the agency acquired Kohnke Hanneken, an agency that was profiled in Communication Arts.
In 2008, Laughlin Constable developed a strategic alliance with Mobium, a Chicago business-to-business agency that received much recognition, including Top Agency of 2006 by Crain Communications’ BtoB Magazine.
From Wikipedia’s article on Laughlin Constable, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2