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 4, 2018 | Blog, Business, News
Square, the payments platform, has acquired website building service Weebly for $365 million. “This is a huge building block,” CEO Jack Dorsey said. “We can now offer our sellers an easy way, with minimal hassle, to sell both offline and online. All they have to...
by Andy Day | May 3, 2018 | Blog, Business, News
Macy’s the American department store chain has acquired Manhattan based retail concept store Story. The company bills itself as a retail concept that takes the point of view of a magazine, changes like a gallery and sells things like a store. Every four to eight...
