The Engine Group / Hogarth Partnership
Ingenious Corporate Finance has advised The Engine Group, the UK's largest privately owned integrated communications group, on the 100% acquisition of Hogarth Partnership, a leading financial and corporate PR consultancy, for a mixture of cash and shares.
Hogarth will enhance Engine's stakeholder communications offer alongside Mandate Communications, itself the result of a recent merger of public affairs specialist AS Biss and corporate PR consultants Republic PR. The acquisition reinforces Engine's ability to deliver integrated corporate, financial, public affairs and stakeholder communications campaigns to major public, private and government organisations and agencies.
This acquisition is the latest in a series of acquisitions on which Ingenious has advised Engine. Previous acquisitions for Engine include: Karen Earl (sports marketing consultancy), DC Interact (digital communications), Republic PR (public affairs), Digital Public (digital strategy within the public sector), Liquid Communications (brand activation), Partners Andrews Aldridge (direct marketing) and Fuel Data Strategies (data analytics).