Barney & Worth President Libby Barg Bakke
Murraysmith CEO Chris Rayasam
Multidisciplinary firm Murraysmith has finalized its acquisition of Barney & Worth Inc., a Portland-based strategic planning and communications services firm.
The move brings together one of Portland’s oldest communications and planning firms with the national reach and broad infrastructure engineering expertise of Murraysmith. The two firms are longtime collaborators and have worked together on a variety of complex, multidisciplinary projects, largely involving public infrastructure work. Leaders from both firms anticipate that little will change in that regard.
At the same time, Barney & Worth, which was founded in 1978, will retain its own brand and clientele while also working as a subsidiary for Murraysmith and its clients.