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Adcom Acquires Spark Your Brand, Inc.

March 6, 2025

Marketing & Advertising

Adcom, a Cleveland-based integrated marketing agency, has acquired Spark Your Brand, Inc., a Beachwood, Ohio branding and merchandising agency that serves retail, wholesale and ecommerce clients. Spark will operate as a business unit within Adcom with CEO Randy Golenberg remaining in place, with the deal intended to expand Adcom's branding and merchandising capabilities and deepen its presence in the building products/retail end markets.

The Brand Leader Acquires Benson Marketing Group

February 16, 2023

Marketing & Advertising

The Brand Leader, a Greenville-based creative agency, acquired Benson Marketing Group, a New York–based wine and spirits marketing agency. The deal folds Benson into TBL to add specialized wine & spirits advertising, branding, design, and digital capabilities while expanding TBL's sector coverage.

Brandmovers Acquires The A Team

June 6, 2024

Marketing & Advertising

Brandmovers, Inc. has acquired The A Team, an award-winning brand development and content creation agency, to expand its creative, shopper marketing, and sweepstakes capabilities. The acquisition strengthens Brandmovers' service offering—combining loyalty technology, digital marketing, and creative services—to provide an integrated, global promotions and loyalty solution for clients ranging from SMBs to Fortune 500 brands.

JCT Growth Acquires The Small Business Journal

February 13, 2023

Media & Entertainment

Roseville-based boutique SEO agency JCT Growth has acquired The Small Business Journal, an independent publishing company owned and operated by Jay Block. JCT Growth said it will continue The SBJournal's interviews and expand the site into a business advice and thought-leadership hub focused on software reviews, digital marketing, talent acquisition and SMB market insights.

Phoenix Marketing International Acquires Communicus

August 4, 2021

Marketing & Advertising

Phoenix Marketing International has acquired research-based advertising consultancy Communicus to integrate Communicus’ longitudinal advertising measurement capabilities into Phoenix’s end-to-end advertising solutions. Phoenix MI, a portfolio company of private equity firm ZS Fund L.P., will fold Communicus’ System 1-based diagnostic and in-market campaign evaluation offerings into its product suite to enhance advertising and brand measurement services.

MJH Life Sciences Acquires Pharmaceutical Commerce

July 9, 2020

Media & Entertainment

MJH Life Sciences has acquired Pharmaceutical Commerce, a multimedia B2B publication formerly published by Healthcare Commerce Media Corporation. The acquisition expands MJH’s healthcare media portfolio and strengthens its reach into the biopharma commercial operations and supply-chain audience, adding a magazine with a controlled circulation of roughly 21,000 and multiple newsletters and events.