About us
History
CST Group was founded in 1995 by three stalwarts of the Media and Advertising industry (Mike Cobbe, Nigel Smith, and John Terris), plus an authority on all things "Technology" (Paul Ockenden), and was described by the Daily Telegraph as the "Dream Team".
CST has always been a bit unique. The founders were all known and respected in their various fields, and had years of experience and a fully rounded skill set: Marketing; Advertising; Media; Client; Agency; and Technical.
John Terris retired a few years back, but Paul, Nigel and Mike still own CST.
A series of firsts:
You know that expression "Been there, done that, got the t-shirt"? Well, at CST we have a whole cupboard full of those t-shirts.
As far as we're aware, we were:
- One of the first UK agencies (possibly the first) to build Web sites for consumer brands.
- The first UK agency to build an e-commerce site. If only we'd patented the idea!
- Drivers of the UK's first online sponsorship by a consumer brand.
- Pioneers in the development of Intranets, Extranets, and Portals - long before those terms were coined.
- The first (and indeed may still be the only) company to offer a full production and technology audit service for new media projects.
Also...
We have achieved year-on-year growth and profitability, mainly organic from client referrals, client loyalty and project development as well as achieving a controlled growth policy investing steadily in people, facilities and resources.
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