Deals

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

WPP announces that it has agreed to acquire XMKT Group, a marketing services agency specialising in customer experience management

WPP announces that its wholly owned operating company JWT has agreed to acquire Shanghai Egift Design and Production Co. Ltd., one of China’s leading premium and gift specialist

WPP announces that its wholly owned operating company JWT has agreed to acquire Shanghai Egift Design and Production Co. Ltd., one of China’s leading premium and gift specialist

WPP has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Cognifide Limited, a leading digital technology consultancy in the UK

Reed Exhibitions has expanded its portfolio in Mexico to include Expo Beauty Show and Expo Lighting America Show

The Indigenus health and wellness communications network has signed up a new UK partner in the form of Windsor-based agency Life

Evenbase, dmg media’s digital recruitment business, has disposed of the
specialist recruitment job board, OilCareers, to Dice Holdings, Inc. for US$26
million