Deals

Matomy, the advertising company that recently floated on the London stock market, has agreed to sell up to 24.9pc of itself to the French media conglomerate Publicis

Company provides strategic insights into acrylonitrile market, a propylene derivative essential for fiber and plastic production critical to technology, communications

Reed Exhibitions announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Grupo Fidalex, a Mexico-based event organizer

Reed Exhibitions announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Grupo Fidalex, a Mexico-based event organizer

Independent US agency Finn Partners has followed up the creation of a London office by acquiring UK-based technology specialist PR agency Johnson King

Tinopolis, the Welsh company behind shows including Question Time and Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and the UK’s largest remaining truly independent TV producer, is up for sale with a price tag of potentially £300m

Film and television measurement specialist Rentrak is to acquire the US TV measurement business of WPP’s Kantar Media for $98m in Rentrak common stock. WPP will then spend a further $56m to bring its overall share of the US-based firm to 16.7%. The deal gives WPP’s GroupM agencies full access to Rentrak audience data. WPP […]

The Promotion Company ― Family Events has produced annual events such as the Hot Bike Tour, Off-Road Expo, Monster Truck Nationals, 4-Wheel Jamboree Nationals and many others for more than three decades

Ringier Axel Springer Media has reached an agreement to acquire the job portal www.profession.hu

As Motivcom is sold to Sodexo and Nigel Cooper buys out Zibrant, C&IT talks to key players about the past, present and future for the agency

In what may be the first significant acquisition of a major content marketing firm by an agency holding company, New York-based CHR Group has acquired Studio One, one of, if not the pioneer in the field of digital content marketing services

Bertelsmann is increasing its ownership of Gruner + Jahr to 100 per cent by acquiring Jahr Holding’s 25.1 per cent shareholding

Publicis Groupe announces the acquisition of BBrandsRock, industry leader in brand engagement, Liquorice, one of the country’s leading digital marketing agencies, and MACHINE, award-winning integrated agency

With offices in Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Vietnam, the deal will see Bray Leino rebrand its Asia-Pacific business as Bray Leino Splash with immediate effect

The show, which has grown over the past two years and attracts over 3,000 PAs and office managers, will co-locate with Confex and the Event Production Show next February at Olympia London.

WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide, the health communications experts of Ogilvy & Mather, has acquired Element Marketing Group (“Element”) in the United States. Element’s revenues for the year ended 31 December 2013 were US$8.3 million with gross assets of US$2.4 million as of 31 August 2014. Element’s clients include a […]

Having agreed a deal in January worth up to £5m over time for UK and US-based Republic Publishing, Next Fifteen is spending another $6.6m (£4.1m) in cash on US-based Story Worldwide

Media 10 has bought the Cake and Bake events, which run twice yearly in London and Manchester and now attract a combined audience of more than 50,000 baking enthusiasts

Media 10 has bought the Cake and Bake events, which run twice yearly in London and Manchester and now attract a combined audience of more than 50,000 baking enthusiasts

Billionaire Warner music owner Len Blavatnik today moved to force a takeover of Perform Group, the digital sports rights group he took public in 2011