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AKQA company history timeline

1994

Ø WPP has an international digital design and communications firm are known as AKQA. In 1994, London-based Advertising Inc. was established as a privately held company.

Ø In 1994, AKQA was created in the United Kingdom.

2007

Ø General Atlantic invested in AKQA at the beginning of 2007, taking controlling ownership in the company.

2012

Ø In 2012, WPP bought majority ownership in the agency, buying out General Atlantic and also getting a piece of the shares that had previously been controlled by AKQA's management.

2015

Ø The The following year, the firm earned four gold Cannes Lions and had garnered the most honors of any other UK digital agency at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2015.

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Founded
1994
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Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
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Founders
Tom Bedecarre,James Hilton
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