The acquisition adds about 220 RKG employees to Merkle's 2,200, including RKG president Adam Audette, co-founder and chief marketing scientist George Michie, and CEO George Gallate.
RKG will continue to support clients as a stand-alone company, for now, but the long-term plan is to build out an integrated platform beginning in 2015, per Michie, who made it clear in the past that the company wasn't looking for a new owner.
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