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4/28/2005
Financial Times Picks Up Closing of Citigate Global
Due to a recent merger, marketing giant Incepta has opted to discontinue their investigative division, Citigate Global. This is a big shake-up in our industry that has lots of investigators wondering about their future. But apparently that's not an issue for Citigate co-founder and former Kroll exec, Ernest Brod, according to the Mudlark, has secured his destiny elsewhere...announcement of exactly where forthcoming.

Via the Financial Times:
Mudlark: Who keeps an eye on private eyes?

By Clay Harris
April 27 2005 21:05

On the website of Incepta, the public relations and advertising company that is merging with Huntsworth, the section for Citigate Global Intelligence, its corporate security arm, is "under construction".

These things happen. But might something bigger be afoot? The industry website Intelligence Online reports that Incepta has suddenly closed CGI in the US. And Ernest Brod, one of the ex-Kroll Associates executives who started the operation, is understood to have told industry contacts of the closure and who his new employer will be.

Read the rest at FT.com, but note - a subscription is required.

More on Citigate's shutdown and business history can be found at the above-mentioned Intelligence Online new site, but a subscrip. is required there as well. Previews of their Citigate-related articles can be found here.

-- MDT



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