Deals

MCI Germany has strengthened its creative event and incentive services through a merger with event marketing and incentive agency Hagen Invent

Amazon is acquiring the cloud-based digital comics platform comiXology, the companies announced on Thursday

South African creative agency, OwenKessel, has been acquired by Publicis Groupe which is further expanding its presence in the country. The agency will be merged with the multi-door Publicis Groupe Africa network

Evenbase, dmg media’s digital recruitment business, has disposed of its job
distribution software business, Broadbean, to CareerBuilder and its job search
engine, Jobrapido, to Symphony Technology Group

AXIO Data Group Ltd (AXIO) announced that it has acquired FOEX Indexes Ltd (FOEX) which will sit alongside RISI in AXIO’s portfolio of forest products information assets

Yannick Bolloré, the chairman and chief executive of Havas Worldwide, has said Havas was planning a number of acquisitions, in his first public appearance since taking over from David Jones in January

Kantar Media has acquired the entire issued share capital of The Data Republic, S.L., a social media data analytics agency in Spain

Kantar Media has acquired the entire issued share capital of The Data Republic, S.L., a social media data analytics agency in Spain

Media Mergers are pleased to announce the sale of the Frankfurt, Germany event Powering The Cloud on behalf of its client Angel Business Communications to Closer Still Media for an undisclosed sum

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions today announced it is expanding its identity management and fraud prevention solutions for the banking, insurance and public sectors with the acquisition of United Kingdom-based Tracesmart®

WPP announces that JWT, the global marketing communications agency, has acquired X-PRIME, a leading creative digital marketing company in France.

CloserStill has acquired leading pharmacy trade show Pharmagora from NewsMed for an undisclosed sum

WPP’s Wunderman has acquired FusePump, a digital marketing agency

Hill+Knowlton Strategies, a leading international communications consultancy, has agreed to acquire Rice5, full service digital creative agency

The value of deals in the technology, media and telecoms sector hit $174bn during the first three months of the year

SapientNitro has acquired Campfire, a digital creative boutique

Porta Communications, which owns PR agencies Newgate and 13, has acquired two businesses from WSM Communications Group

JWT has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Social Wavelength, one of the leading social media agencies in India

The publisher that struck gold when it bought the rights to Steig Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy has been snapped up by Hodder & Stoughton, the British publisher behind Sir Alex Ferguson’s biography and Stephen King, John Le Carré and John Grisham

The publisher that struck gold when it bought the rights to Steig Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy has been snapped up by Hodder & Stoughton, the British publisher behind Sir Alex Ferguson’s biography and Stephen King, John Le Carré and John Grisham