Together with Polskin Arts, CCC Strengthens
FINN's Leadership in the Arts Sector, Expands Presence in
EMEA
NEW
YORK and PARIS, July 9, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Global independent marketing and communications
firm FINN Partners has acquired Claudine Colin Communication,
a 25-person Paris-based PR agency focused on the arts and culture.
The firm will be known as Claudine Colin Communication, A FINN
Partners Company, and work alongside the sector-leading arts
practice of FINN, headed by Philippa
Polskin.
Leading Paris-Based Arts Agency, Claudine
Colin Communication (CCC), Joins FINN Partners
Claudine Colin Communication, founded in 1990, is the leading
arts PR firm in France and has
been a long-term partner of Polskin Arts. CCC represents
prestigious arts organizations in France, Europe, and abroad, including Musée national
Picasso-Paris, musée du quai Branly-Jacques
Chirac, Pinault Collection, Palais de Tokyo, The Rencontres d'Arles, LUMA Arles,
Lafayette Anticipations, Fondation Cartier, Centre Pompidou-Metz,
Musée du Louvre-Lens, Mucem, Musée Marmottan Monet, Ateliers Jean
Nouvel, Beaux-Arts de Paris,
Fondation Pernod Ricard, Musée Yves Saint
Laurent Paris, Cultural Olympiad for Paris 2024,
17th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Art Basel across all shows (Paris, Basel,
Miami, Hong Kong), and Fondation Beyeler. (Full list
of clients to be found at www.claudinecolin.com.)
"We already have one of the largest and most esteemed arts
practices in the PR agency world, and we are excited to expand and
deepen this work by having Claudine and her team join us. We are
also very pleased to enhance our presence in Paris. We currently have 15 people in that
office, who work with sustainability, technology, consumer and
health clients. Now we have added the premier practice in the
French arts sector, and together we have 40 people in Paris. We look forward to working together as
one team," said Peter Finn, CEO
and Founder of FINN Partners.
Claudine Colin said, "I
founded Claudine Colin Communication over 30 years ago and
developed the business both in France and internationally with a professional
and committed team to support managers in the artistic and cultural
sphere, both public and private, in designing and implementing the
communication and influence strategy for their projects.
I am delighted to announce that my team and I are joining
FINN Partners, with whom we share the values of high standards,
rigor and independence. We have worked closely with Polskin Arts, A
FINN Partners company, for many years in the field of art and
culture. It is a natural next step for us to join forces and
further extend the scope of the select international projects on
which we already collaborate.
Together we will offer our clients expertise in the fields of
art and culture in Europe,
the United States and Asia. With my trusted team, especially
Anne-Sophie Decronumbourg and Anne Monéger-Laval, deputy directors,
we will continue to develop our business alongside our clients,
with whom we have long-standing partnerships based on our
reputation for delivering excellent service that achieves real
influence, recognition and public success."
Philippa Polskin, who helped
bring the firms together, said, "Claudine Colin Communication is
recognized everywhere as the unchallenged leader in arts PR in
France, as well as a major force
in cultural communications throughout Europe. We welcome CCC warmly and are eager to
continue our long history of collaboration with Claudine and her
team, working side by side with them at FINN Partners at what is
truly the forefront of cultural communications."
Polskin Arts, recognized as one of the world's largest and most
prominent cultural PR practices, has a distinguished and extensive
client base in the U.S. and around the world, and for decades has
worked on international projects in close collaboration with the
sector-leading partner CCC in Paris, and the extensive FINN Partners network
around the globe. The FINN Partners acquisition of Claudine Colin
Communication coincides with the recent and ongoing strategic
expansion of Polskin Arts, which has added key senior executives
and extended its deep connections to all areas, for-profit and
not-for-profit, of the rapidly evolving field of arts and
culture.
Claudine Colin Communication will be part of FINN Partners EMEA,
led by Chantal Bowman-Boyles. With
the addition of CCC, FINN Partners EMEA will have total fees of
about $27 million and total staff of
about 270 people. CCC will work closely with Polskin Arts to expand
the FINN Partners practice in the arts and culture sector.
"France is the global center
of art and culture, and we are proud and excited to have Claudine's
team, with their unique knowledge and expertise, join us. Our
office in Paris has a great
reputation for delivering high-quality client service and for
long-lasting client relationships – both attributes we share with
CCC. I have enjoyed getting to know Claudine and her team over the
last few months, and I am confident that together we will achieve
even greater successes in France
and across the region," added Chantal
Bowman-Boyles.
About Claudine Colin Communication
With a team of 25 people, Claudine Colin Communication offers a
comprehensive range of skills to clients from the fields of art,
culture, lifestyle and cultural tourism. Its areas of expertise
include: global communications, press relations, media
partnerships, media campaigns, digital campaigns, institutional
relations, crisis communication, etc. The agency has a full-service
portfolio of skills designed to support clients in the development
and implementation of a tailor-made communications strategy.
The firm has directed the communications campaigns of over 30
new and reopened cultural establishments, more than 20 European
Capitals of Culture, festivals and seasonal programs. Every year,
the firm works in close collaboration with some forty cultural
institutions both in France and
abroad.
About Polskin Arts
The leading firm in cultural public relations, Polskin Arts has
a six-decade record of service to distinguished clients around the
world. With many of them, Polskin Arts has formed professional
relationships that have lasted for years. Polskin Arts offers a
unique diversity of experience, an unsurpassed network of clients
and the strengths of our internationally recognized parent company
FINN Partners.
With a strong roster of skilled professionals based primarily in
New York City and Los Angeles and the collaboration
internationally of its affiliate agencies and FINN Partners
companies, Polskin Arts serves distinguished not-for-profit and
for-profit clients by developing strategic campaigns for major
museums and performing arts organizations, opening major capital
projects, creating excitement for unprecedented cultural
initiatives, bolstering reputations and raising brand awareness,
strengthening the work of foundations and philanthropists, advising
on the development of creative economies, and providing counsel on
a wide range of corporate programs in the arts and culture.
About FINN Partners, Inc.
Founded in 2011 on the core principles of innovation and
collaborative partnership, FINN Partners has grown from about
$24 million in fees to almost
$200 million in fees during the past
12 years, becoming one of the fastest-growing independent public
relations agencies in the world. Recognized as one of Fast
Company's 2024 Most Innovative Companies, PRovoke Media's 2024 Best
Agency to Work For and 2022 Agency of the Year, the full-service
marketing and communications company's record-setting pace results
from organic growth and integrating new companies and new people
into the FINN world through a common philosophy. With more than
1,400 professionals across 35 offices, FINN provides clients with
global access and capabilities in the Americas, EMEA and
Asia. In addition, FINN provides
its clients with access to top-tier agencies worldwide through its
membership in the global network PROI.
Headquartered in New York, FINN
has offices in: Abu Dhabi,
Atlanta, Bangalore, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Delhi, Denver, Detroit, Dublin, Fort
Lauderdale, Frankfurt,
Guam, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Jerusalem, Kuala
Lumpur, London,
Los Angeles, Madison, Wisc., Manila, Mumbai, Munich, Nashville, Orange
County, Calif., Paris, Portland, San
Diego, San Francisco,
Seattle, Shanghai, Singapore, Vancouver, Wa., and Washington D.C. Find us
at finnpartners.com and follow us on LinkedIn, X and
Instagram at @finnpartners.
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