By Greg Hazley
Lewis PR has acquired seven-year-old tech firm Page One PR in all-cash deal.
Page One, which has offices in San Francisco and Palo Alto, specializes in B2B social media campaigns and has worked with clients like Cisco, SAP and Google. It has a staff of about 20.
Lewis said the deal is part of its acquisition strategy that included Belgium-based Leads United last year.
Page One was founded by former reporter Lonn Johnston and Craig Oda, a Valley veteran. Oda said revenues are up 20 percent this year on new social media business from McAfee and Polycom.
“We never set out to join another communications and marketing agency and we weren’t looking for a buyer,” Oda said announcing the deal today on the Page One blog. “But growing this quickly brings its own operations and management challenges.”
Page One will operate as a subsidiary to Lewis, which topped $8M in billings in 2008 and has U.S. operations based in San Francisco.
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