Sky News has learnt that Hubert Burda, which publishes the YourHome and Wedding lifestyle magazines, is putting the finishing touches to a takeover of Immediate Media, which has been owned by Exponent Private Equity since 2011
Upper Street Events has taken on the Adventure Travel Show, three Cruise Shows and the Olympia Historic Automobile Fair, with the acquisition of Escape Events
Johnston Press confirmed it will sell its East Anglia titles to Iliffe Media Limited having previously said it was in a late-stage discussions over the sale in November.
Press Release: WPP announces that MediaCom, part of its global media investment management arm GroupM, has acquired a majority stake in Code Computer Love Ltd (“Code”), a user experience studio that creates and develops digital products, campaigns and capabilities
Press Release: WPP announces that its global e-commerce consultancy, Salmon, has acquired Netherlands-based Eperium, a leading digital and e-commerce consultancy
Swink Media, publishers of Golf Retailing, a leading magazine for the UK golf trade, has announced the acquisition of Pro Shop Europe from the Mark Allen Group (MAG) for an undisclosed sum
Google and Facebook will take more than 70% of all money spent on display advertising online in the UK by 2020, according to a report suggesting the firms will soon have an effective duopoly spanning the Atlantic
You may or may not have heard of Cincinnati-based Promotion Execution Partners but the marketing promotions firm employs 250 people in 20 offices in 14 countries. The agency has handled upwards of $3.5 billion in ad spend for more than 500 worldwide brands since its founding in 2004.
In the decade running up to 2015 the UK’s local and national newspapers (excluding the Financial Times) saw revenue roughly halve to just over five billion pounds. There you have it. Newspapers are making half the money they used, and the only area in which revenues are significantly growing is digital — and there are a whole heap of issues for them there
Press Release: UBM plc (“UBM”, or the “Company”) announces today that it has agreed to acquire Allworld Exhibitions (“Allworld”, or the “Business”) for a cash consideration which values the Business at US$485 million on a debt and cash free basis
Reed Exhibitions, part of RELX Group, is delighted to announce that it has acquired Imbibe Media Limited, the organisation behind Imbibe Live, the Imbibe media platforms, and the successful annual Sommelier Wine Awards
Financial information business Euromoney saw its share price drop nine per cent on Friday morning as Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) revealed details of its plans sell part of its stake in the company
Press Release: SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. – August 12, 2016 – Emerald Expositions, LLC (“Emerald”), a leading business-to-business trade show and conference producer, today announced its acquisition of the Swim Collective and Active Collective trade shows, from Shannon Leggett, their founder.
The Americas divison of the global B2B information firm, which has not been shy about its aggressive transition from trade publisher to “events-first” company, confirmed to Folio: today that Design News, MD+DI, Qmed, and Packaging Digest will cease print production following their respective December issues and enter 2017 as digital-only brands.
The magazine publisher’s stock price jumped on reports it has hired financial advisers.
After receiving an unsolicited takeover offer, magazine publisher Time Inc. has hired financial advisers to field potential bids for the company and investigate other strategic moves, according to a Wall Street Journal report
Raconteur, the free current affairs magazine, is closing nine months after launching due to a lack of advertising revenue. The last issue of the quarterly magazine, published by content agency Raconteur Media, will come out on Friday. Press Gazette was told that the magazine’s editor, Peter Guest, has been suspended after emailing staff about the closure.
Press Release: Easyfairs today announces its acquisition of Pentawards, the most prestigious worldwide competition exclusively dedicated to packaging design in all its forms. Created in January 2007, Pentawards’ primary mission is to increase awareness of packaging design and those who create it. Its 55 categories are open to all those across the globe who are associated with the creation or marketing of packaging, and are judged by an international jury consisting of 12 highly reputed designers and packaging design directors from major companies
Brexit will further weaken a slowdown in UK adspend in the coming years, Zenith has forecasted, with advertising growth set to halve to 5% this year. The Publicis Groupe media agency’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts says UK adspend will be down on 2015’s 9.2%. Last year Zenith had predicted UK growth of 9.7%.
The chief executive of Virgin Media has rejected speculation that its parent company, the pan-European cable empire Liberty Global, could seize on weakness in ITV’s share price to mount a takeover bid for Britain’s biggest commercial broadcaster.
Tom Mockridge told the Sunday Telegraph that Liberty had “enough to do as it is” without wading further into programming. Liberty owns 9.9pc of ITV and has bought the equivalent commercial broadcaster in Ireland, fuelling speculation that it is lining up an approach for ITV.
Press Release: Tarsus Group plc (“Tarsus” or the “Group”), the international business-to-business media group, announces that it has conditionally agreed to acquire 80.1 per cent of Connect Meetings, LLC (trading as “Connect”) for a cash consideration of up to approximately $57.0 million (the “Acquisition”), payable by way of initial consideration of approximately $44.0 million plus up to $1.0 million for working capital and up to $12.0 million payable over the next two years subject to certain conditions
