B2B marketing and events agency CAPITAL-e has partnered with local creative agency Handsome Creative to grow its client services offering and elevate its strong reputation in marketing and events.

The partnership will see the number of staff grow by 30 percent for the agencies and expand their creative capacity to offer more client services in response to increased demand from a growing client base.

The team acquisition was a natural expansion for the two agencies, which CAPITAL-e chief executive and founder Andrew Everingham said have more than 10 years’ experience working together, since the founding of CAPITAL-e in 2011.

“Despite the obvious hindrances presented by COVID-19 on the events industry over the past two years, CAPITAL-e has experienced substantial growth as we pivoted to support our clients during the pandemic,” Everingham said.

“Thanks to this new, expanded team of CAPITAL-e and Handsome Creative, our ability to offer new services and scale has grown dramatically and we also expect our project value to increase accordingly this year.”

Handsome Creative creative director and founder John Cassimatis said his team was thrilled to be merging with CAPITAL-e.

“Over the years we have thrived working with CAPITAL-e and their clients, as they are aligned with our view of customer experience, innovation and quality,” Cassimatis.

The combined company will also support CAPITAL-e’s growing APAC offices which were established in Singapore in 2019.