Phoenix-based marketing and communications agency Off Madison Ave has acquired San Francisco-based firm Fineman PR.
 |
Financial terms of the deal weren’t publicly disclosed. The acquisition was facilitated by PR merger and acquisition consultancy Gould+Partners.
Fineman was founded in 1988 by Michael Fineman, who also serves as president. The full-service agency specializes in crisis, reputation and issues management, as well as brand PR, media relations, digital and social media, community relations, product publicity and food/beverage PR. Clients include Foster Farms, UPM Raflatac, the San Francisco Department of the Environment, Amy’s Kitchen and Spectrum Vehicle Auctions.
Fineman PR will retain its name and branding as a division of Off Madison Ave. Michael Fineman will continue managing the firm and counseling clients from the agency's San Francisco location. No staff changes were reported.
Off Madison Ave in a statement said the acquisition would bolster the agency’s existing PR and social media services and provide both firms’ clients a range of additional marketing, creative and digital solutions.
Founded in 1998, Phoenix-based Off Madison Ave specializes in travel/tourism, healthcare, health/fitness, retail, technology, education and nonprofit work. Clients include WD-40, the Arizona Office of Tourism, Grand Canyon Conservancy, Visit Phoenix, Maricopa Association of Governments, Arizona Game & Fish and Arizona State Parks & Trails.
The agency maintains an additional satellite office in Boulder, CO.
Fahlgren Mortine, No. 19 in O’Dwyer’s rankings of PR firms with 2023 fee income of $39.2M, is being acquired by its Columbus, OH neighbor, The Shipyard, a fast-growing ad agency.
Supreme Group, a healthcare commercialization platform, has acquired Health+Commerce, a strategic PR and marketing shop based in Eagle (ID), serving the medtech and biotech sectors.
Signal Group CEO Blake Androff has purchased the Washington-based public affairs shop from Wiley Rein law firm, which had been its owner since 2014.
Ruder Finn has acquired Flightpath, a 30-year-old New York-based digital marketing shop with 25 staffers.
Have a comment? Send it to 
No comments have been submitted for this story yet.