Twentyfour Seven Merges with Smile

The award-winning Spanish multimedia production team Smile has joined the Twentyfour Seven service production group, strengthening their creative service across the network.

Founded in 2005, with bases in Spain, Portugal, and the Canary Islands, Smile are a smart, creative company, working with leading agencies and brands including Hermés, Chanel, and Smart, across all forms of production.

The merger is a strong fit by operations and ethics, with both companies being proactively solution driven suppliers.

The Smile brand will now trade under the 247 umbrella and the companies will merge their bases in Barcelona and Lisbon to service the local areas.

Smile Executives Alvaro Weber and Jonas Hendrix and will become managing partners at Twentyfour Seven, alongside existing Partners Ivo Van Vollenhoven and Gordon Mackinnon.

Ivo Van Vollenhoven, founder / managing partner, Twentyfour Seven, says: “We are delighted to have Smile join us as part of our local offering. They have produced some stunning work over the last few years for a loyal base of clients and this merger significantly strengthens our production and service production facilities across our regions.”

Alvaro Weber, executive at Smile and new managing partner at Twentyfour Seven: “We are extremely proud to have secured the backing and strength of the leading service production company and over the years our local production teams already know each other well. We are huge fans of Twentyfour Seven’s production creativity and we are excited about bringing our own skillset to the operation."

Alongside their bases in Chile and Poland, this local merger reinforces the Twentyfour Seven network as one of the foremost production service specialists worldwide