CKS Group Is in Talks To Buy Competitor LVL

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By Joan Voight





SAN FRANCISCO–The CKS Group is in final negotiations to acquire a Silicon Valley rival, LVL Communications, sources said.





Mark Kvamme, chairman of Cupertino, Calif.-based CKS Group, declined to comment about talks with LVL. ‘We are talking to agencies locally, on the East Coast and internationally in regard to possible acquisitions,’ he said. ‘No announcement is imminent (as a result of) any of those talks.’





CKS, which started as a small high-tech integrated marketing agency in Campbell, Calif.,



















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