- Ansira Partners announced that it signed a definitive agreement to buy the CDK Global Digital Marketing Business
Ansira Partners, a independent global marketing services and solutions company, announced that it signed a definitive agreement to buy the CDK Global Digital Marketing Business. CDK Global — a leading automotive retail technology company — made the decision to sell all the assets of the company’s Digital Marketing Business, including all advertising solutions and website services.
The CDK Digital Marketing Business uses proprietary websites and advertising technology to improve the customer experience and drive more than 83 million monthly unique visitors across a multi-tiered automotive landscape. And the Digital Marketing Business offerings include websites, advertising, digital consulting, earned marketing, search engine optimization, and social product lines.
Currently, the CDK Digital Marketing Business has over 175 representatives in the field to call on dealers in the market. And the company has a team of almost 200 employees in India focused on operations and engineering, which expands Ansira’s global presence.
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2020, subject to customary closing conditions.
Key Quotes:
“The acquisition of the CDK Digital Marketing Business will provide an opportunity for Ansira to further extend its efforts in local marketing activation solutions for automotive clients, leveraging the great depths of their dealer solutions. What we know for certain is that success in marketing for brands greatly relies on them delivering in that ‘last mile’ for their customers. With the CDK Digital Marketing Business, Ansira will provide another solution for clients to reach their customers locally, in a seamless and relevant way.”
– Alan Herrick, an operating partner with Advent International and chairman of Ansira’s board of directors
“While we continue on our accelerated path of product and services innovation, we will be able to tap into Ansira’s extensive experience in automotive, its world-class marketing services, and creative, to improve our dealer marketing effectiveness and the insights we bring to the industry. Our shared passion with Ansira for digital marketing technology and services will help drive even more value for our clients and their customers. We will continue to bring clients industry-leading platform innovations to help them compete in local markets and realize greater returns on their marketing investments.”
– Jen Cole, senior vice president at CDK Digital
“The CDK Digital Marketing Business will amplify Ansira’s extensive and industry-recognized expertise in the auto vertical, driving customers to strategically leverage hyper-local opportunities as a unique selling point that can help drive growth and build and maintain customer brand loyalty. The acquisition solidifies Ansira’s depth and scale of local marketing activation solutions and utilizing its newly-refreshed and ever-evolving platform, as well as their agents in the field, will provide our clients with another solution to drive in-market effectiveness.”
– Jay Dettling, chief executive officer at Ansira
