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Verndale Acquires Vaan Group

January 8, 2026

Marketing & Advertising

Verndale has acquired Vaan Group, a Shopify Platinum design and technology agency, to establish a dedicated D2C commerce practice and deepen its Shopify design, build, and optimization capabilities. The deal expands Verndale's ability to deliver end-to-end Shopify storefronts, platform migrations, headless builds, and conversion optimization for DTC, luxury, and lifestyle brands.

Yes& Acquires Beacon Digital Marketing

April 29, 2025

Marketing & Advertising

Yes&, an integrated marketing agency, has acquired Beacon Digital Marketing, a New York–based digital marketing agency that serves B2B brands in SaaS, cybersecurity, fintech, and professional services. The deal brings Beacon's team and B2B-focused capabilities into Yes&'s platform to deepen its B2B and fintech/cybersecurity practice offerings.

Northern Commerce Acquires Digital Echidna

July 31, 2020

Marketing & Advertising

Northern Commerce has acquired Digital Echidna, combining two North American digital agencies to create one of Canada’s largest eCommerce and digital experience firms. The merged organization will combine complementary capabilities across eCommerce, digital experience design and enterprise content management, employ over 150 experts collectively, and leverage partnerships with Adobe, Salesforce, Acquia, Facebook, Google and Shopify to expand client offerings across retail, healthcare and education.

Lunchbox Acquires NovaDine

June 7, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Lunchbox, a restaurant technology platform, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NovaDine, an enterprise digital ordering provider for multi-unit restaurant chains. The deal will combine NovaDine's POS-integrated online and mobile ordering, catering and delivery capabilities with Lunchbox's broader ordering, loyalty and marketing suite to expand Lunchbox's enterprise offerings and accelerate geographic growth.

Alloy Acquires Narwhal.Digital to Expand Creative and Technical Capabilities

April 3, 2023

Marketing & Advertising

Alloy, an Atlanta-based integrated marketing agency, has acquired fellow Atlanta creative technology firm Narwhal.Digital LLC to deepen its design, product and technical capabilities. Narwhal founders Jennifer Ready and Vivek Pandya will join Alloy in leadership/advisory roles; terms were not disclosed. The combined business now employs more than 60 people and will broaden Alloy's services for technology and SaaS clients.

Brightstar Capital Partners Acquires Novae Corp.

December 22, 2021

Manufacturing

Brightstar Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, completed its acquisition of Novae Corp., a Markle, Indiana-headquartered trailer manufacturer, in partnership with Novae founder and senior management who retain significant ownership. Novae operates six trailer brands across 15 manufacturing facilities with more than 1,100 employees and will work with Brightstar to scale operations and expand in a fragmented market.