Barclays leads £10m funding boost for loyalty app Bink
Barclays has secured a minority stake in loyalty app Bink after leading a £10m investment in the company as part…
M&A
Planning-Inc secures £15m buyout deal with Next 15
Predictive analytics and data science firm Planning-Inc has been bought by digital communications group Next 15 in a deal which…
Oliver Group sells majority stake to You & Mr Jones
Brand tech group You & Mr Jones has acquired Oliver and its parent firm Inside Ideas Group in a move…
Wunderman buys majority stake in martech firm Emark
WPP is continuing its acquisition spree to boost the services of Wunderman by acquiring a majority stake in marketing technology…
Williams Lea Tag snaps up digital production company
Williams Lea Tag, the company set up in 1820 to provide print services to the financial industry, is continuing its…
Dentsu buys digital agency to add to Merkle’s mettle
Dentsu-owned Merkle’s new mergers and acquisitions specialist Julia Crawley-Boevey has barely got her feet under the table than the agency’s…
Merkle hires M&A specialist to ramp up acquisitions
Dentsu-owned data-driven marketing agency Merkle has signalled its intention to carry on spending by appointing its first head of mergers…
Salesforce urges EU to probe $26bn LinkedIn sell-off
CRM giant Salesforce is demanding that EU chiefs investigate Microsoft’s $26bn acquisition of LinkedIn, citing data privacy and anti-trust issues,…
Merkle buys CRM specialist with third deal in a year
US data-driven marketing agency Merkle has made its second UK acquisition in a month by buying inbound and outbound CRM…
Major groups fight new rivals as agencies play away
For most agency start-ups, the end game is getting a call from one of the big four marketing services groups…