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Following a digital Rebrand, Little Black Book Looks Back at a Decade of Exponential Growth and Record Turnover

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  • LBB reports continued growth in business in the UK and an acceleration in growth internationally with increased business in the USA, Canada, Australia, India and Germany.
  • A record turnover for the business of £3.2m in 2022, with a turnover of around £4m forecast in 2023.
  • The world’s leading network agencies, independent agencies, post-production and production companies subscribe to LBB, and more recently LBB signs deals with global brands including Lego, BT/EE, AB InBev and Mars.
  • LBB is the first company to have brand, agency, post-production and production companies all together on a level playing field.

LONDON, Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Thirteen years after founding Little Black Book (LBB) and quietly building a UK-headquartered business with a global footprint and + £3 million turnover, CEO Matt Cooper recently revealed a new digital archive for advertising agencies, production companies and businesses in the creative industries alongside a carefully planned UX redesign of the online platform. Founder and CEO Matt Cooper is a digital pioneer who captured the zeitgeist of the internet and adapted it as a tool for archiving and celebrating creative work globally.

LBB is the first company to have brand, agency, post production and production companies promoting their businesses on a level playing field. The platform offers them guaranteed coverage of their creative work and business news, control of their public profile, the ability to host and expand on their archive in one place, and the chance to enter their best creative into a globally respected awards show (The Immortal Awards). The business is backed by a number of industry heavyweights who act as shareholders including Sir John Hegarty, Steve Parish and Sir William Sargent.

Hegarty and Sargant describe their belief in the LBB business model:

Sir John Hegarty, Co-founder and Creative Director at The Garage Soho & The Business of Creativity: “Like any great idea LBB seized the future. It understood the value a digital first strategy would deliver. Whilst their competitors were struggling to reconcile the past with the future, LBB was already in it. Any great leader must deliver clarity and focus. And do so with energy and enthusiasm. Matt delivers those in spades. Articulating LBB’s opportunities and it’s future course.”

Sir William Sargent, Chairman Framestore: “The business plan made sense – off the back of a track record of supporting the industry with relevant sales related events – and Matt embodied what was on offer and I believed he could deliver. The same qualities continue with Matt, added to by an ability to pivot as the business model needs to reinvent itself. Relevance is at the core of LBB and today’s amazing offering – not just to companies – but now equally importantly to individuals in a fundamentally freelance community – is unique and reaching further by the month.”

In November, following a year of record turnover in 2022 – 2023, LBB re-introduced itself with a major glow-up, offering more time-saving tools, more value and a free-to-view archive.

The new build was driven by customer usage and is forecast to see the business turnover approx £4m in 2023 – 2024. Matt Cooper explains: “Bit by bit, over about 18 months, we connected approx 2.1 million credits which had been submitted to our platform over the course of the last 15 years. Previously these credits were inactive text but post-connection they now link back to the profiles of 300,000+ creative people. Since launch in November this database of individuals is growing by 10,000+ people a week.”

Right now, LBB reports continued growth in business in the UK and an acceleration in growth internationally with increased business in the USA, Canada, Australia, India and Germany.

Reflecting on this growth and why he founded Little Black Book thirteen years ago, Cooper nods to building something to address what was a dramatic shift in the business of advertising. Something he feels has contributed to the platform’s recent success.

Matt Cooper says: “When we launched in 2010, there were over 1,000 publications across adland – all autonomous and local – and to keep up with the business globally you had to be on top of them all. We created this platform with the belief that agencies, post-production and production companies would all change and evolve the way they do business (and that brands would interact with them differently). We saw that they would need one place where they could see what was happening to the industry globally AND locally. They would need a single place where they could tell their story and be found by potential clients. That is something every company is telling me they need right now and is undoubtedly the reason we are continuing to grow so quickly.”

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What Hebei Can Offer丨Hebei Steel Forging Future

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SHIJIAZHUANG, China, Jan. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from Great Wall New Media — Steel is the primary pillar industry of Hebei Province. Relying on abundant resource endowments, a complete industrial chain, and modern technological advantages, Hebei’s steel industry has gradually formed an industrial cluster centered around Tangshan, Handan, Shijiazhuang, Chengde, and other key areas.

In recent years, Hebei has been actively promoting the steel industry’s transition towards intelligence, sustainability, and internationalization. Its products are widely exported to 20 countries and regions, becoming a crucial support for infrastructure construction in Belt and Road countries. 

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JLL APAC Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Enhancing Property Performance and Delivering Customer Value in Real Estate

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JLL APAC’s deep industry expertise, state-of-the-art capabilities, and customer-driven approach position it to redefine the FM industry and reinforce its leadership.

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan recently researched the facility management industry and, based on its analysis, recognizes Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) Asia-Pacific (APAC) with the 2024 Asia-Pacific Company of the Year Award. The company is a global real estate leader that helps enterprises optimize real estate strategies to meet their operational needs and business goals. The company offers comprehensive solutions and services across the real estate spectrum, including integrated facility management (IFM). With its innovative, cutting-edge solution suite, JLL APAC enhances property performance, fosters ideal work experiences, and delivers value for clients spanning multiple industries, such as finance, government, information technology, and manufacturing. It integrates advanced technology, leverages scientific insights, and designs sustainable spaces to drive innovation and deliver significant customer value. The company goes beyond traditional FM practices, exploring neuroscientific principles to develop its innovative solutions.

JLL APAC’s Work Science initiative studies unique individual work patterns and diverse cognitive styles to power its human-centric workspace designs and create optimal work environments. It enhances workforce productivity, collaboration, and employee well-being and satisfaction. Aimed at helping C-suite executives and senior leaders tackle complex challenges and drive their organizations forward, the value-added JLL Future Labs service curates immersive, multi-sensory collaboration experiences that foster innovative thinking and synergy and accelerate decision-making. JLL APAC leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to unify operations among diverse facility management stakeholders and eliminate data silos, enhancing collaboration and decision-making toward optimized building performance. Its comprehensive AI-enhanced JLL Serve FM application streamlines operations, automates processes, digitizes maintenance and reporting, and provides real-time visibility to optimize building usage, minimize costs, save time, and boost returns.

Janice Wung, industry principal at Frost & Sullivan, observed, “JLL APAC’s bold approach to exploring innovative insights beyond traditional FM scope, such as neuroscientific principles, enhance its solutions and deliver impactful results. Its foresight in technology integration is a key differentiator, empowering the company to remain at the forefront of the industry and capitalize on emerging market opportunities.”

JLL APAC’s Smart Building Platform helps clients enhance operational performance with real-time and remote asset monitoring, enabling continuous oversight, rapid problem detection, predictive maintenance, and improved occupant comfort. The platform drives cost optimization, enhances operational efficiency, and promotes sustainability while ensuring occupant comfort and safety. JLL APAC’s expert integration of the Internet of Things, big data, and intelligent technology enhances service excellence, promoting sustainability and propelling the FM industry into the future. Furthermore, its world’s first large language model specifically for the commercial real estate industry, the JLL Generative Pre-trained Transformer (JLL GPT) AI platform, performs comprehensive multi-source data analytics to provide clients with intelligent insights that drive informed strategies and enhance returns. JLL APAC’s customer-centric and collaborative approach, deep expertise, and reliability in addressing client pain points resulted in an impressive global Net Promoter Score of 100%, establishing a new regional record. Regardless of macroeconomic and business conditions, its steady growth momentum positions it to thrive and continue expanding its market presence.

“JLL APAC prioritizes mutual interests to drive value creation and sustainable growth for all stakeholders involved, redefining business partnerships in the FM industry. By adopting progressive, customer-centric strategies and fostering enduring relationships through collaboration, value creation, and service excellence, JLL APAC is well-positioned to lead the FM industry into the future,” added Rubini Kamal, best practices research analyst at Frost & Sullivan. With its strong overall performance, JLL APAC earns Frost & Sullivan’s 2024 Asia Pacific Company of the Year Award in the facility management industry.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents a Company of the Year award to the organization that demonstrates excellence in terms of growth strategy and implementation in its field. The award recognizes a high degree of innovation with products and technologies, and the resulting leadership in terms of customer value and market penetration.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in various regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

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For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500 company with annual revenue of $20.8 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 110,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAYSM. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, please visit www.jll.com

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PostEra announces expansion to $610M in their AI drug discovery collaboration with Pfizer

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BOSTON, Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — PostEra, a biotechnology company specializing in machine learning for preclinical drug discovery, today announced an expansion of their partnership with Pfizer. The parties will launch a new Antibody-Drug-Conjugate (ADC) collaboration while also expanding their existing $260M AI Lab collaboration, which itself was built upon a successful Generative Chemistry partnership.

The teams will leverage PostEra’s AI platform, Proton, a pioneering innovation in generative chemistry and synthesis-aware design, to advance several programs. These new programs include small molecule therapeutics as well as ADCs, where PostEra will use Proton to optimize properties of payloads.

PostEra will receive an upfront payment of $12M and is eligible to receive additional milestone payments and tiered royalties on any approved products arising out of the collaboration.

Over the last 3 years, as part of the AI Lab, PostEra and Pfizer scientists have partnered closely to advance several small molecule programs. After Pfizer nominated the maximum number of programs, the teams have agreed to expand the collaboration to include additional targets with PostEra receiving additional upfront payment and eligibility for milestones and royalties.

“We’re pleased to significantly expand the use of PostEra’s Proton platform. This builds on peer-reviewed publications with Pfizer validating the real-world impact of AI-driven drug discovery in hitting preclinical milestones faster than anticipated,” said Alpha Lee, Chief Scientific Officer of PostEra. “This third partnership with our long-term collaborators at Pfizer underscores Proton’s depth and strength in making a meaningful impact on real-world drug discovery campaigns,” added Aaron Morris, CEO of PostEra.

About PostEra
PostEra is building a modern 21st century biopharma. We use Proton, our AI platform for medicinal chemistry, to accelerate the discovery of new medicines for patients. PostEra is advancing an internal pipeline while also advancing small molecule programs through partnerships with biopharma. We’ve closed over $1Bn in AI partnerships including 4 multi-year agreements with Pfizer and Amgen. PostEra is also leading an antiviral drug discovery center for pandemic preparedness, funded by one of the largest grants in NIH history.

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