Creative Loafing's acquisition of the Reader and City Paper also solidifies the status of Florida's Tampa Bay area as an unlikely media capital of sorts.
But a person briefed on the talks as recently as Friday said they had been going on for more than a year and had focused recently on a "creative partnership," not an acquisition.
Saatchi Rewrites the Value-Add for Ads The legendary advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi rose from obscurity to success in the 1970s and '80s with a blend of creative brilliance and rampant acquisition.
PluralSight, a purveyor of online training tools for software professionals, is expected to announce the acquisition of creative software training services company Digital-Tutors in a $45 million deal.
This is basically a strategy of creative destruction via mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Hayes said buyers for car dealerships are now split evenly between existing owners with several dealerships to their name and a proven record of success, and first-time owners who are struggling to find creative ways to finance the acquisitions.
Ian Livingstone, who as creative director and head of acquisitions at Eidos is a true industry heavyweight, is less sanguine: "Perhaps one day, talk will translate into action, but in the meantime, [UK] studios will continue to close or to be sold to overseas buyers".
This plan is well underway following the acquisition of a creative design agency and video production company – all within the last six months.
Y.& R. had handled creative duties for Chevron before the acquisition, from offices including San Francisco.
Rauth et al. (2010, p. 7) suggest that design thinking education (i.e. the process of teaching design thinking) is able to develop a certain mindset as creative competence that 'culminates in the acquisition of creative confidence, which assures the students of their own ability of acting and thinking creative' (see Fig. 3).
"For Creative Cloud, this is one of these acquisitions," he added.
