Dentsu Aegis Network announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Namics AG, a leading full-service digital agency in Switzerland and Germany. Following the acquisition, which is subject to approval from the German competition authority, the company will become ‘Namics – A Merkle Company’. Namics’ digital experience, creative and service design expertise complements […]
Dentsu Aegis Network announced the acquisition of B2B International, a leading specialist business-to-business (B2B) market research company. B2B International will become part of gyro, the world’s first full-service global agency dedicated exclusively to B2B marketing. Headquartered in the UK with offices across Europe, the USA and Asia-Pacific, B2B International provides bespoke market research solutions for […]
Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon, two leaders in the social intelligence space, announce the signing of a merger agreement. This merger, expected to close in Q4, creates a c. $100 million annual recurring revenue business that will move forward as Brandwatch. “In this digitally connected world, our vision is to transform how organisations understand their consumers […]
Digital agency Jellyfish is announcing its acquisition of The ASO Co, the fastest-growing App Store Optimisation agency in the world. Jellyfish has acquired 75% of the business with an agreement to acquire the remaining 25% at the end of a 21-month period. Founded only two years ago by James Bott, CEO and Thomas Twigg, COO, […]
Impact, a natively-integrated suite of products for fraud protection, marketing attribution and analytics, and performance partnership management and optimisation, announced the complete acquisition of Mediarails. The acquisition adds full CRM and marketing automation capabilities to the Impact service offering for the discovery, recruitment and engagement of new digital marketing partners, including influencers. “As the market […]
Marcus Thomas, an independent marketing communications agency based here, has acquired Devs United, a customer engagement technology company, focused on providing solutions around the Salesforce platform. Devs United helps companies implement customer relationship management (CRM) programs, marketing automation technologies and other customer engagements applications as a registered Salesforce consulting partner. Its team of 20 technologists […]
Immediate Media Co, the special interest content and platform company, announces an agreement to acquire BBC Good Food, the UK’s biggest food media brand, from BBC Studios. The acquisition of BBC Good Food – including the digital and live events businesses – establishes Immediate as the largest food media publisher in the UK. The deal, […]
The Coca-Cola Company announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Costa Limited, which was founded in London in 1971 and has grown to become a major coffee brand across the world. The acquisition of Costa from parent company Whitbread PLC is valued at $5.1 billion and will give Coca-Cola a strong coffee […]
Photobox Group, Europe’s leading personalisation business, has acquired Dutch online cards and gifting retailer Greetz. The acquisition makes Photobox Group the European market leader in online greetings cards and personal gifting through the Greetz and Moonpig brands. Founded in 2001 as an online greetings cards retailer – in which it is the undisputed market leader […]
rEvolution, the integrated global sports marketing agency, has acquired London-based sports marketing agency, Revolution Sports Marketing Group. Founded in 2003, Revolution works with a variety of clients across golf, equestrian, tennis, motorsports and rugby, and counts SAS, Land Rover and the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018 among its current client partners. The acquisition bolsters […]