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Publicis Sapient Acquires Management Consultancy Third Horizon Strengthening its Global Strategy & Consulting Capability
SYDNEY, March 2, 2020 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

Publicis Sapient ( 
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) has announced the completion of the strategic acquisition of Australia-based 
Management Consultancy firm, Third Horizon. The acquisition, which closed on 
February 28th, expands the end-to-end digital transformation capability 
available to Publicis Sapient clients globally, particularly deepening the 
Strategy and Consulting expertise available across industries.

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With a shared focus on the integration of Strategy with Experience, Engineering 
and Product to drive customer outcomes, Third Horizon reinforces and 
accelerates Publicis Sapient's connected Digital Business Transformation 
proposition in the market and the acquisition gives Third Horizon clients 
access to Publicis Sapient's scale, with a team of 20,000 professionals across 
53 offices.

Founded in 2004, Third Horizon has driven double-digit growth through their 
work with clients such as New South Wales and Victoria State Governments, 
Lendlease, Powerco New Zealand, Ausgrid and the Federal Government. They offer 
connected capabilities across strategy, design, and execution and offerings in 
strategic insights, human-centered design, operating model, commercial 
strategy, technology enablement, culture & change management, and program 
delivery.

Nigel Vaz, Global Chief Executive Officer, Publicis Sapient says, "I'm excited 
to welcome Third Horizon to Publicis Sapient. With the addition of their team, 
and market-leading capabilities in Management Consulting, we reinforce our 
commitment to accelerating our clients' transformations, and will offer one of 
the most comprehensive end-to-end transformational solutions for our clients 
globally."

Neville Bagot, Third Horizon's Managing Director added, "Third Horizon was 
established on the relentless focus of helping our clients deliver results. 
With the increasing interconnection of customer, digital and operating models, 
Publicis Sapient emerged as the obvious partner to enhance the breadth of our 
capabilities, and deliver value to our clients. We couldn't be more excited."

"Publicis Sapient's acquisition of a management consulting firm like Third 
Horizon aligns with our global strategy, and will further accelerate the growth 
we are experiencing in Australia and internationally. The depth of industry 
experience from Third Horizon, combined with Publicis Sapient's deep experience 
in digital business transformation through the eyes of the customer is an 
extremely exciting proposition for clients. I am looking forward to working 
closely with Third Horizon's principals Neville Bagot, Robert Kelly and Steven 
Metzmacher who have built an incredibly successful consulting business." – adds 
Sarah Adam-Gedge, Managing Director, Publicis Sapient Australia

About Publicis Sapient
Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established 
organizations get digitally enabled, both in the way they work and the way they 
serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and 
modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile 
engineering and problem-solving creativity. As digital pioneers with 20,000 
people and 53 offices around the globe, our experience spanning technology, 
data sciences, consulting and customer obsession – combined with our culture of 
curiosity and relentlessness – enables us to accelerate our clients' businesses 
through designing the products and services their customers truly value. 
Publicis Sapient is the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe. 
For more information, visit www.publicissapient.com.

About Third Horizon
Third Horizon is a progressive consulting firm specialising in strategy 
execution. We help organisations navigate the complexity of business 
transformation pragmatically, collaboratively and strategically. We do this by 
working with leadership – as one team – to implement strategy and complex 
transformation.

Media Contact:
Ashish Prashar
Sr. Director of Global External Communications
ashish.prashar@publicissapient.com
1-347-545-8609 

SOURCE:  Publicis Sapient