The agency’s 28 staff relocate to Porta’s head office in Basinghall Street following the completion of the acquisition, and will work alongside Porta’s existing consumer PR company, Thirteen Communications
Politico and German publisher Axel Springer are acquiring the website and weekly newspaper European Voice and rebranding it as the European edition of the political website
A who’s who of technology and media heavyweights, including Ashton Kutcher, Bill Gates, Twitter co-founder Ev William and entrepreneur Richard Branson, have joined a $25m (£16m) funding round in the social activism platform Change.org.
CRM shop MRM//McCann, part of McCann Worldgroup, has acquired Optaros, a digital eCommerce services/solutions provider
Axel Springer, Europe’s biggest newspaper publisher by circulation, is taking full control of its digital classifieds joint venture for €446m in cash and an equity stake
Founded in 2000, Heyday is one of New Zealand’s most comprehensive and respected digital agencies
Alda Holding B.V. is an Amsterdam-based company that is a leader in developing, producing and promoting dance music events and experiences around the world. ALDA Events will continue to operate as an independent company under its current CEO Allan Hardenberg and will become responsible for the touring division of SFX
Promedica will form part of Cello Health, and will work closely with Cello Health Insight in London, New York and Chicago to continue the development of the offer to the large number of global clients of Cello Health
Upper Street Events Ltd has today announced a management buyout with private equity company, Living Bridge
Terms weren’t disclosed, though the NY Post reports Rockbridge paid $60 million for a majority stake
Dentsu Aegis Network has reached an agreement in principal to acquire Tempero, the UK-based social media management agency
Sky, which will retain an equity stake of 20% and a seat on the board of the business, said the sale will allow the business to focus on its newly-expanded pan-European pay-TV operation
In a RNS today WPP announces that its wholly-owned company, POSSIBLE, the global creative digital agency that is part of WPP Digital, has acquired The Swift Collective, Inc. (“Swift”) in the United States
In an RNS today ITE Group plc today announced that its wholly owned Turkish subsidiary, EUF, has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of the shareholding of TFF including Eurasia Rail exhibition
The NEC Group, put up for sale by Birmingham City Council (BCC), could be slipping behind schedule for announcing a new owner, with fears that the deal is taking longer to complete than anticipated
Niche publishing company Rapid News Communications Group has concluded its purchase of plastics industry exhibition, Interplas, from Reed Exhibitions, for an undisclosed amount
N200 announced that they had been acquired by Global Experience Specialists (GES), a global event marketing company with a long history of connecting people through live events
Nov 19 (Reuters) – Japanese advertising agency Dentsu is not looking for any big acquisitions to spur its growth in emerging markets and digital, the head of its global operations outside Japan said on Wednesday. For the full story read Reuters
Euromoney is looking to acquire more financial information providers, after taking a $59m stake in the recent buy-out of Dealogic
M&C Saatchi has made its third attempt to crack the US advertising market with the acquisition of a minority stake in the New York creative agency Shepardson Stern & Kaminsky for about $8m
