About us

Leo Burnett is one of the world's largest agency networks with 96 offices in 85 countries and more than 9,000 employees worldwide. Leo Burnett, a HumanKind communications company, has a simple and singular approach: put a brand's purpose at the centre of communications to truly connect with people. A private company formed in 1935 and officially running under the name of 'Leo Burnett Company, Inc, the agency started with working capital of $50,000, eight employees and three clients. Part of Publicis Groupe, Leo Burnett is now one of the largest agency networks in the world. For the first decade of Burnett opening his company he only billed about 1 million dollars in the first few years of the business running and then eventually moving up to 10 million dollars annually, however, in 1950, his billings more than doubled to 22 million dollars and by 1954 the company was at 55 million dollars annually. By the end of the 1950s, the Leo Burnett Company was billing 100 million dollars annually