IMS Health pays €385m for Cegedim businesses

IMS Health has paid €385m to acquire several of Cegedim’s information solutions and customer relationship management (CRM) businesses. The deal is expected to be competed in early 2015 at which point IMS Health, which provides information and technology services to the healthcare industry, will take control of a Cegedim CRM portfolio that covers 80 countries […]

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JWT acquires majority stake in creative agency The Hardy Boys in South Africa

WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company JWT, the global marketing communications agency, has acquired a majority stake in The Hardy Boys, a leading creative agency in South Africa. Founded in 1994 in Durban, The Hardy Boys is a multi-disciplinary, brand building agency, with fully integrated activation capabilities. Clients include Unilever, Diageo, SA Home Loans, […]

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Omnicom’s Rapp Acquires UK’s Haygarth

Omnicom’s Rapp has acquired Haygarth, a United Kingdom-based brand and retail agency. Haygarth employs 110 people and will remain a separate company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition expands RAPP’s capabilities to provide marketing and communications services across the customer experience spectrum. Now, Rapp will combine Haygarth’s expertise in digital retail shopper […]

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