IMS Health and healthcare consultancy Quintiles are planning to merge in an all-stock transaction which will value the combined company – Quintiles IMS Holdings – at $17.6 billion. Combined 2015 revenue for the two firms was around $7.2 billion
Hampshire, UK-based eDigitalResearch (edr) has been acquired by recently formed research, insight and advisory services provider MARU Group, for an undisclosed sum
WPP announces that its operating network Millward Brown, a global leader in brand, media and communications research, has agreed to acquire the business operations of Analytics Quotient (“AQ”), a marketing analytics company that extracts insights from data to help clients define their marketing strategies. AQ also builds data visualization tools and custom analytics solutions to help clients slice, dice, simulate and monitor business data
WPP announces that its data investment management division Kantar has acquired a majority stake in its partner in Denmark and Sweden, Millward Brown Denmark ApS
Kantar Health has acquired CEEOR, a specialist research and consulting company in the Czech Republic specialising in analytical services for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industries
French-based marketing services company Havas has announced the acquisition of MR group CSA and the Intervalles agency, from Bolloré Group, which is the majority shareholder in Havas itself.The acquired firms – which have combined gross margin of EUR 16m and headcount of 160 – were both wholly owned subsidiaries of Bolloré, which owns 60% of […]
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 […]
