PBN named Eastern European Agency of the Year by The Holmes Report and IPO Communications Agency of the Year by the Russian Stock Market & Management Institute (IFRU).

WPP, one of the world’s largest communications marketing companies, acquires a strategic 49.9% stake in PBN. The strategic partnership expands WPP’s holdings in the CIS and provides PBN access to WPP’s global services and network.

PBN expands our offering in Kazakhstan and Central Asia.

PBN issues its first IPO Pioneers, an analysis of Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh and CIS companies going public to raise capital.  The firm has published subsequent IPO Pioneers every year since.

PBN serves as the communications consultant to Mittal Steel in its  $4.8 billion acquisition of the Kryvorizhstal Metal Works factory, the largest foreign M&A transaction in Ukraine to date.

PBN issues the first ever survey of Russian CEOs on their views of transparency, corporate governance and open communications.

PBN helps BP announce its $6.75 billion investment to create TNK-BP, which still one of the largest M&A transactions in Russia.

PBN launches the Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights, the preeminent organization to improve intellectual property regimes and fight counterfeits in the countries of the Former Soviet Union.

PBN launches The PBN Company•Limited, the firm’s wholly-owned U.K. subsidiary, to be the hub of our Financial Communications Practice Group and better serve our European-based clients.

The Firm established its corporate headquarters in Washington DC, where we have maintained a full-service office since 1990.

PBN opens our second office in the former Soviet Union in Kyiv, Ukraine. 

PBN launches the International Press Center & Club Moscow, the first independent press center in Russia. 

The firm completes the successful mass privatizations in Moldova and Armenia under contracts with U.S. AID.  The PBN Company subsequently implements a successful five-year economic reform and privatization program in Ukraine, also under a contract with U.S. AID. 

The PBN Company opens our Moscow office and becomes the first international strategic communications company fully accredited with and registered by the USSR (now Russian) Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The firm is asked by the Special Assistant to U.S. President George H. W. Bush to manage the U.S. visit of then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

The PBN Company is founded in California by Peter B. Necarsulmer and Susan A. Thurman, who still lead the company. From 1983 to 1990, The PBN Company was best known as a leading U.S. political consulting and public affairs firm.