PFSweb Divests LiveArea Business To Merkle For $250M

August 27, 2021 10:31 AM | 1 min read | Make a Comment

PFSweb, Inc. PFSW completed the sale of LiveArea, its global customer experience, and commerce agency business unit, to Merkle, Inc., a technology-enabled, data-driven customer experience management company, for a total gross consideration of $250 million.
Merkle is a part of Dentsu Group's DNTUF Dentsu International.
PFSweb will be accounting for the LiveArea divestiture as a discontinued operation on its upcoming Q2 earnings report.
PFSweb used a portion of the net proceeds to pay down its senior financing facilities.
Price Action: PFSW shares are trading higher by 1.24% at $13.53 on the last check Friday.

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