While their businesses are healthy for now, and they come with strong software and big client lists, the $300 million Oracle paid for Vitrue and the near $1 billion, or 10x revenue, we're hearing Salesforce might buy Buddy Media seem a little bubbly.
"The only thing they have is a great client list".
Throughout his nearly five-decade career as a top adviser to the country's biggest corporations — his client list included General Motors, Pfizer and Time Warner — Mr. Aaron cemented a reputation as a trusted adviser to blue-chip companies.
"If you look at our client list, the biggest shows are working with us.
The skinny: The firm that DeSmogBlog revealed has historical ties to Big Tobacco and currently has a client list that includes Koch Industries, ConocoPhillips and BP, Environmental Resources Management ERM Groupup, also has a direct connection to TransCanada itself.
However, unlike Razorfish, KPMG's client list is studded with big corporations, which are inheriting the Internet as the dot-coms disappear.
He thinks if hsbc capitalizes on its gold-plated client list, the upside could be as big as that from the Household buy.
Its client list is a roll call of the biggest names in service and hospitality: McDonald's, Marriott, Starwood hotels.
The case of the madam spiraled around her client list, which would out many of DC's biggest political power players.
There would be no big-ticket items for sale, no wooing of collectors (not a big deal because no one was buying the stuff anyway) and no exclusive client list, at least not at the start.
