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Miami’s Newlink Group has acquired Italy’s EJ to strengthen its position in southern Europe, where it has offices in Madrid and Barcelona.
Founded by Massimo Costa, Milan-based EJ will be revamped as Newlink Italy. He will chair Newlink Italy and be supported by Jack Blanga, VP-executive creative director; Carla Giammillaro, general manager; and Francesco Bacchelli, client service director.
Sergio Roitberg founded Newlink more than 25 years ago. The firm now has more than 500 staffers in eight offices, which include Mexico City, Santo Domingo, Buenos Aires and Lima.
It has represented Cisco, Swatch, Longines, Diaego, Citibank, Qatar Airways, Uber, Novartis, AeroMexico and Unicef.
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.
Supreme Group has acquired Pivot Design to deepen the capabilities of the healthcare platform in high-complexity areas such as rare disease and pharma marketing.
