Type Private Revenue $17M in 2009 Founded 2004 Number of employees 135 | Key people Sharon Napier (CEO) Owner Project Number of locations 4 Parent organization Project Worldwide Ltd. | |
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Headquarters Rochester, New York, United States | ||
Partners + Napier is a full-service ideas agency headquartered in Rochester, New York. The agency has another full-service office in Atlanta, Georgia, and additional field offices in New York, New York and San Francisco, California.
Partners + Napier was created in 2004 when CEO Sharon Napier and three partners, including CFO Jim DiNoto and CCO Jeff Gabel, purchased Wolf Group’s Rochester, New York and Atlanta, Georgia offices.
The agency is the founding member of the Partners Group, an interdependent collective of North American agencies formed in 2006, consisting of Partners + Napier, Partners and Jeary and Partners and Edell. The collective was dissolved after Partners and Jeary and Partners and Edell were acquired.
In 2010, Partners + Napier was acquired by Project, a holding company consisting of twelve total agencies based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Project has identified no fewer than 50 potential agency targets for additional acquisition, according to chairman and chief executive Robert G. Vallee Jr.
In 2011, the company was chosen as one of the 30 Best Places to Work in Marketing and Media by Advertising Age.
With gross billings of $130M, Partners + Napier is a Rochester Top 100 Company, as chosen by the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper and a finalist for Fast Company's Fast 50 award.