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Press release: RWS Holdings plc (“RWS), the world’s leading provider of intellectual property (“IP”) support services (patent translations, international patent filing solutions and searches) and a leading provider of life sciences and commercial language services, today announces the acquisition of Article One Partners, LLC (“AOP”), a cutting-edge IP information business based in the United States, for a cash consideration of US$8 million (“the Acquisition”). 

Press release: The UK’s leading food, drink and hospitality events company accelerates growth through strategic acquisitions and organic growth
Fresh Montgomery, the UK’s leading organiser of food, drink & hospitality events, has acquired Pub18, the only show entirely dedicated to the UK pub industry. The acquisition will strengthen Fresh Montgomery’s position as the most comprehensive events organisation in the market serving the food, drink and hospitality industries.

Buzzfeed UK reported a pre-tax loss of £3.3m last year despite more than doubling its turnover to £20.5m on the previous year, new financial figures show.

With 260,422 sales a month Glamour was the tenth biggest selling magazine in the UK as ranked by ABC. So news that its monthly edition is to close at the end of the year is a huge blow to the power of print magazine publishing. Glamour has fallen a long way since it burst on to the UK publishing scene in 2001, back in the days when publishing innovation was largely about changing the size of paper used

Glamour magazine is to stop publishing a monthly print edition as it turns its focus to digital and becoming the “ultimate online beauty destination” for the UK, owners Conde Nast announced today.

Google’s decision to axe its “first click free” policy on news search results this week has been hailed as a “victory” and the “first important step in recognising the value of legitimate journalism”.

Press Release: QS is delighted to announce that we have acquired Hobsons Solutions, the leading provider of international enrolment management solutions to universities worldwide, which will be renamed ‘QS Enrolment Solutions’.
QS was founded in 1990 by Nunzio Quacquarelli (CEO, QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd) as a student project at the Wharton School with the mission to enable motivated people anywhere in the world to fulfill their potential through educational achievement, international mobility and career development.

WPP is preparing to lock horns with Bain Capital in Tokyo, after the Boston-based private equity firm launched a $1.3bn tender offer for Japan’s third-biggest advertising agency — a long-term business partner of the UK-listed giant. Just hours after Bain’s offer was made public, people close to WPP said on Monday night that it did not intend to sell its 24.7 per cent stake in Asatsu-DK (ADK) at the ¥3,660 price offered by Bain, as the tender “severely undervalues” the Japanese firm.

Press release: The British Dental Association and CloserStill Media have announced a major new collaboration, that will see the British Dental Conference and Dentistry Show launched in May next year. The new collaboration of the BDA’s British Dental Conference and Exhibition, and CloserStill Media’s Dentistry Show, will take place on 18 to 19 May 2018 at the Birmingham NEC and will be the undisputed leader in dental events.

Iliffe Media is launching a second weekly independent newspaper title, which will cover Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire, following the launch of the Cambridge Independent last year.

Press release: Briefing Media, the world’s leading agribusiness media and Information Company, today announce a significant strategic investment and partnership with Urner Barry Publications Inc

Press release: Hobsons Inc. has sold its Radius, AppReview, ApplyYourself, Connect, and Retain CRM and application management product lines to Campus Management Corp. These solutions are used by more than 700 colleges and universities in the United States and around the globe. The acquisition continues to build out Campus Management’s solution portfolio, making it the largest and best-in-class higher education Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) provider. The company now includes the approximately 100-person, dedicated team of CRM and application management experts from Hobsons who will continue to design, develop, implement, and support these solutions at Campus Management

The US publishing giant Time Inc is in talks with Epiris about a takeover of its UK magazines subsidiary, Sky News learns.

US Magazine publisher Time Inc said it was looking to sell several assets, including Time Inc UK, Time Customer Service and a majority stake in the Essence magazine, CNBC reported on Friday

The titles involved in the deal include the daily Leader (covering Wrexham and Flintshire), the Chester Standard, Powys County Times, Denbighshire Free Press, Whitchurch Herald and North Wales Chronicle.

Flashes&Flames: Facebook and all those bloggers and vloggers have shredded the magazine market. “Me time” used to describe readers’ relationships with their favourite magazines; now it belongs to social media. For enduring brands, print is becoming ancillary to digital services. Many will still prosper, but magazines are becoming a much smaller business

Informa has acquired Dove Medical Press to strengthening its capability and presence in the OA (open access) publishing market. Terms were not disclosed

Premier League clubs are braced for digital giants such as Amazon and Facebook to gate-crash the bidding for streaming rights when the next TV deal is negotiated in the coming months, according to Ed Woodward, the executive vice-chairman of Manchester United

The publisher of Rolling Stone has announced it has put its controlling stake in the magazine up for sale

Press release: Next 15, the digital communications group, is pleased to announce the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Elvis Communications Limited (“Elvis”), a UK based integrated digital agency with a focus on consumer brands