Prospects Press Release: Prospects, the market-leading education, employment and skills company, has acquired Optimus Education. Optimus Education was founded in 1997 to help primary and secondary school leadership teams manage staff development efficiently and effectively, stay compliant and drive whole school improvement through a variety of conferences, events and training resources
The outlook for print advertising has gone from bad to worse. Print newspaper ad spending in the UK, for instance, is set to fall by £135m to £866m this year, even steeper than the £112m drop in 2015, says Enders Analysis. “These are big numbers,” says Douglas McCabe, an analyst at Enders. “This is not advertising that is going to come back.”
Hearst has acquired CAMP Systems International Inc. in its latest move toward diversification in the information and data sectors. CAMP was acquired from GTCR, a private equity firm, for around $2 billion, according to sources familiar with the situation. The exact sum was not disclosed
Overall, companies from Europe dominate the rankings of exhibition firms with revenues over EUR 100 million. Just five of 31 companies have their headquarters outside of Europe: Emerald Expositions (USA) in 12th place, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council in 15th, Coex (Korea) in 16th, Tokyo Big Sight in 20th and SNIEC Shanghai in 28th
Acquisition of Evenementenhal – from H2 Equity Partners and ABN AMRO Participaties – puts Artexis Easyfairs among the world’s leading events organisers and venue operators
Press Release: Ascential plc: (the “Group” / LSE: ASCL.L), the international business to business media company with a focused portfolio of market-leading events and information services products, is pleased to announce the launch of Money20/20 Asia from 13-15 March 2018 in Singapore
Bewkes says $85.4bn deal can boost competition as rivals call for regulatory scrutiny
UK adspend figures for 2016 have been revised up to 5.2% after a higher-than-expected growth for the first half of the year, despite concerns from business over Brexit
Time Warner would give a competitive advantage over rivals such as Verizon, T-Mobile US and Sprint with a so-called “vertical integration” strategy, allowing it to use its internet and telecoms services to distribute Time Warner’s film and television portfolio
Citic Private Equity, part of China’s top financial conglomerate, has held preliminary talks to buy a roughly €2bn controlling stake in Spain’s Imagina Group, a media company that distributes the country’s top football league internationally and has also backed films including Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona. The discussions between the unit of the powerful state-backed […]
Press Release: UDG Healthcare plc, a leading international provider of healthcare services, announces that it has acquired STEM Marketing Limited, the leading global provider of commercial, marketing and medical audits to pharmaceutical companies for a total consideration of up to £84m ($103m)
Time Out Group has announced the acquisition of London-based events and ticket booking company YPlan
National Pavement Expo is the leading industry event for contractors in the asphalt, concrete paving, sealcoating, striping, sweeping crack sealing, pavement repair and snow removal industries in the US
Analysts had earlier predicted a bumper 2016 but jittery companies have cut more than £400m from marketing budgets
Time Inc is closing the UK print edition of its InStyle magazine and taking the brand digital-only
AXIO Group, which manages a global portfolio of market-leading information businesses has announced it has received a binding offer from M3, Inc. to purchase Vidal Group (‘Vidal’), a leading European provider of reference drug information for healthcare professionals, for €100 million
Press Release Emerald Expositions, LLC (“Emerald”), a leading business-to-business trade show and conference producer, today announced its acquisition of the Digital Dealer Conference & Expo from Dealer Communication
Press Release WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company Xaxis, the world’s largest global programmatic media and technology platform, has agreed to acquire, subject to regulatory approval, Triad Retail Media, a leading digital retail media specialist in the US
Press Release: Future plc (LSE: FUTR, “the Group”, “Future”), the international media group and leading digital business, has been informed that the CMA has no objection to Future completing the acquisition of Imagine Publishing Limited.
The likes of UBM and Relx are thriving after swapping print for events and digital services
