Smithbucklin, based in Chicago, is an
association management company
An association management company, or AMC, provides management and specialized administrative services to non-profit trade associations and professional associations using a for-profit approach. Many AMCs serve as an organization's headquarters, m ...
, founded in 1949 with secondary offices in Washington, D.C.; Old Lyme, Connecticut; St. Louis, Missouri; and San Ramon, California.
William E. Smith started the company with nine client organizations—headlined by the Popcorn, Seed Pea and Frozen Potato Products Institutes—and just 22 employees. On July 24, 2004, Smith died at age 90.
During the
Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble (dot-com boom, tech bubble, or the Internet bubble) was a stock market bubble in the late 1990s, a period of massive growth in the use and adoption of the Internet.
Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, the Nasdaq Compo ...
of 1997–2001, some of Smithbucklin's client associations encountered "painful" financial cutbacks.
On June 29, 2005, the company became employee-owned.
In 2011, Smithbucklin contracted for at Chicago's former IBM Building, 330 N. Wabash Ave., under a 15-year lease that was set to begin in 2013.
Acquisitions
Acquisitions have fueled Smithbucklin's recent growth, including public relations firm Tech Image Ltd. (2007); medical education provider The France Foundation (2011); stakeholder-alliance firm Inventures Inc. (2013); ad-sales firm The Townsend Group (2015); incentive-travel company SDI (2016); and live-event experience design agency 360 Live Media (2018).
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See also
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Association management company
An association management company, or AMC, provides management and specialized administrative services to non-profit trade associations and professional associations using a for-profit approach. Many AMCs serve as an organization's headquarters, m ...
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Meeting and convention planner
A meeting and convention planner supervises and coordinates the strategic, operational, and logistical activities necessary for the production of events. The planner can be employed or hired ad hoc by corporations, associations, governments, and ot ...
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Event management
Event management is the application of project management to the creation and development of small and/or large-scale personal or corporate events such as festivals, conferences, ceremonies, weddings, formal parties, concerts, or conventions. ...
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Smithbucklin
Business services companies established in 1949
Companies based in Chicago
Association management companies
1949 establishments in Illinois
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