by Andy Day | May 11, 2018 | Blog, Business, News
Irish family owned firm Smyth Toys has acquired the European operations of American bankrupt toy giant Toys R Us in a €79m ($94m) deal. The transaction will almost double the footprint of the Mayo based company, adding 93 stores based in Germany, Austria and...
by Andy Day | May 10, 2018 | Blog, Business, News
Rogers & Cowan a global PR & marketing agency owned by Interpublic Group has acquired London based ITB Worldwide. ITB is one of Europe’s leading entertainment marketing agencies that specialises in digital influencers. Founded in 2008 ITB Worldwide focuses on...
by Andy Day | May 8, 2018 | Blog, Business, News
Vice Media has acquired Brooklyn experiential events company Villain in a bid to bolster its live offering to advertisers. Villain whose industrial sized 15,000ft “raw” venue is based near Vice’s head offices in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg area employs 12 people and...
by Andy Day | May 8, 2018 | Blog, Business, News
Nokia has acquired California startup SpaceTime Insight, an Internet of Things company that provides machine-learning powered analytics tech and IoT applications to large energy and transportation corporates like FedEx, Singapore Power and Union Pacific Railroad. The...
by Andy Day | May 7, 2018 | Blog
We have a three year plan we’re in the middle of executing We’ve just hired a new Managing Director I might be interested in a couple of years when I can get a better valuation We always have companies sniffing around I’m not interested No! These are all typical...