Chime Communications confirms bid for VCCP

Chime Communications has confirmed it will pay up to £30m in a cash and shares deal to acquire advertising agency Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest, and that WPP Group is investing in a new share issue to help fund the deal, as first revealed

Chime Communications has confirmed it will pay up to &£30m in a cash and shares deal to acquire advertising agency Vallance Carruthers Coleman Priest, and that WPP Group is investing in a new share issue to help fund the deal, as first revealed in Marketing Week (June 9).

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