NEW YORK — Philadelphia PR store Gregory FCA has acquired B2B company Affect, increasing its know-how and healthcare capabilities.
Gregory founder and CEO Greg Matusky and president and companion Joseph Anthony will oversee the mixed operation. Affect founder and president Sandra Fathi will function chief technique officer.
Affect senior VPs Brittany Bevacqua and Jen Dobrzelecki might be a part of the newly expanded company’s management staff.
Gregory FCA is hiring all of Affect’s staff, which is able to make the agency a 96-person operation with $14 million in annual income.
The transfer is a part of Gregory’s bigger technique of rising by way of acquisitions that increase and improve its companies in addition to its geographic footprint. Affect offers Gregory a New York presence, thought of an asset for a agency with a robust monetary companies follow; Affect’s experience in know-how strengthens Gregory’s capability to serve purchasers, which come from various industries together with client know-how, actual property, well being tech and gaming, the agency stated.
The transfer marks the second acquisition Gregory has made since receiving a development capital funding from Boston-based Copley Equity Partners simply earlier than the Covid pandemic. The agency purchased KM Digital in January of 2020.
“We are judiciously executing on development plans by buying confirmed expertise that strengthens our shopper companies and extends deeper into key verticals that we’ve got recognized as development alternatives within the international financial system,” Matusky stated. “Make little doubt about it, we had been interested in Affect due to its market fame, monitor report, vertical focus, and the standard of its management and administration groups.”
Said Fathi: “For 19 years, we cultivated an organization and tradition identified for creating and investing in expertise whereas delivering service excellence and tangible outcomes to our purchasers. We instantly acknowledged that Gregory FCA was the proper companion due to our shared values, staff focus, and dedication to shopper service. Our plan is to increase our product providing by integrating Gregory FCA’s advertising, inventive, video manufacturing, digital, and social media capabilities right into a extra holistic service providing for purchasers. We sit up for becoming a member of this spectacular and gifted staff, studying and constructing on their success.”
