RTC Partners, Miami-based private equity firm, has invested in COMM, the digital marketing shop in Boston with 50 staffers.
Launched in 1994, COMM provides branding, creative, media, lead generation, web development and social services to clients in the healthtech, financial, manufacturing tech and retail sectors.
Clients include Bose Automotive, Wilmington Trust, Raymarine and Guidehouse.
The COMM investment “accelerants to our vision of integrating growth strategy together with leading in-market programs, informed by marketing science and technology, to drive growth for our clients,” said RTC CEO John Shomaker.
RTC’s also has invested in fama PR, Intelisent, MarketBridge and Quarry. They have 260 professionals in six locations in the US and Canada.
Miami’s Newlink Group has acquired Italy’s EJ to strengthen its position in southern Europe, where it has offices in Madrid and Barcelona.
Hodges Partnership co-founders Jon Newman and Josh Dare are selling the Richmond-based firm to four senior VPs who will assume ownership of the shop over the next couple of years.
Interluxe Group, luxury experiential shop, and North & Warren digital-first media agency, have acquired Quinn, the strategic communications shop that services upscale brands.
H/Advisors Abernathy and FGS Global work Keurig Dr Pepper $18B deal to acquire coffee company JDE Peet's. The coffee brands will then be spun off as a separately traded public company.
Shamrock Capital has acquired Penta Group, stakeholder communications firm, from Falfurrias Management Partners.
