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Building in competitive advantage
The Access Group enjoyed perhaps its finest year in 2013, landing 34 new accounts and doubling its revenue. So it's only by comparison that the company's 2014 looks less impressive, because any number of agencies would be thrilled with Access's 10 new accounts and 15% bump in revenue; head count pushed past the century mark, to 102.
Access saw its share of structural change as well, launching two new full-service practices: FronTier Managed Markets is designed to help clients identify more effective ways to communicate with entities like health insurers and accountable care organizations, while Bioeclipse is targeted at biotechs that need assistance on matters like navigating clinical pathways. The two new practices join a handful of others under Access's roof, among them managedmarkets specialist Catalyst, policy expert Government Policy Systems and education arm StrataMed.
Access also opened a Los Angeles office for its management consulting firm Promidian. The...