NEW YORK,
Aug. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Clemenger BBDO, part of Omnicom Group Inc.
(NYSE: OMC), has purchased a majority stake in Levo Digital, a
leading Australian marketing services and technology
business.
Levo delivers transformation by empowering businesses with
marketing technology and tools that connect consumers with the
things they want and need, when and where they need them. The
company helps its clients innovate, expand and transform their
organizations through the implementation and use of technology,
with a specialization in designing and deploying marketing
automation and ecommerce platforms.
Levo was founded in 2005 by Callum
Hoogesteger and Craig
Roberts, who will continue to lead the business. Levo will
retain its brand within the Clemenger Group.
Clemenger Group Executive Chairman, Robert Morgan, said: "Levo will give us the
underlying technology skills required to deliver personal, scalable
and unmissable experiences. Levo already works with us on key
clients and we see enormous growth opportunities post acquisition
for Levo to work across the Clemenger BBDO Networks."
Combined with Clemenger's existing digital and data
capabilities, Levo will enable the Group to have the most advanced
business transformation capabilities in the market.
ABOUT LEVO
Levo is a leading specialist digital
transformation and delivery consultancy with offices across
Australia and New Zealand, along with an established global
resource network providing round the clock capability and support.
At the heart of enterprises large and small, we help organisations
realise the potential of their technology assets by connecting
people with the things they want and need, when and where they need
them.
Combining intelligent user experience and design with a
deep-rooted understanding of technology and business systems, our
team of 60+ technologists working across verticals including
experience and product design, ecommerce, CMS, CRM, mobile and
custom application development empower organisations to better
connect and communicate with their audiences.
ABOUT THE CLEMENGER GROUP
Clemenger Group is
Australasia's largest marketing communications network, comprising
over 30 individual companies across multiple disciplines –
including Clemenger BBDO, Colenso BBDO, CHE Proximity, Traffik
Experiential, Porter Novelli,
Creative Activation Group, GRA Cosway, Hall & Partners, Quantum
Research, Perceptive Research, Marketforce and 99 Enterprises.
Clients include National Australia Bank, Carlton United Breweries,
Spark Telecom, Telstra, Mazda, IAG, Pepsico and Mars.
It is majority owned by Omnicom Group through its BBDO Worldwide
Network.
ABOUT OMNICOM GROUP INC.
Omnicom
Group (www.omnicomgroup.com) is a leading global marketing and
corporate communications company. Omnicom's branded networks
and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media
planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and
promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty
communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 100
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