Argus Media stake sale set to close after tax issues resolved

The sale of a controlling stake in Argus Media is set to close next week after a two-month delay caused in part by tax issues, including one related to the energy reporting company’s executive chairman. Adrian Binks, who is also its publisher, is credited with turning what was once a small London-based energy newsletter into an almost £1bn enterprise over the course of the past 30 years

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Can Axel Springer do the ‘impossible’?

“The soul and spirit of the company Axel Springer is journalism. We serve our readers with independent and critical information and advice as well as good entertainment. Through our media offerings we are making a contribution to the strengthening of freedom and democracy. “

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Centaur acquires specialist marketing consultancy Oystercatchers

Centaur Media Plc (LSE: CAU), the multi-platform business information, insight and events group, is pleased to announce that it has agreed to acquire the business and assets of Oystercatchers LLP (“Oystercatchers”). Oystercatchers will build on Centaur’s Econsultancy and other marketing assets to provide an international leading consultancy in the marketing sector

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Telegraph warns of ‘intense competition’ from Facebook and Google

The owner of The Daily Telegraph’s view of the trading environment in its newly published annual accounts was more bearish than a year ago. TMG described how print publishers now have a “less certain” role because of “competition from the proliferation of free digital content and the increasing role of large-scale digital platforms in distributing and aggregating content”, particularly on mobile

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Ocean Media acquires London Stationery Show

Media-Mergers’ Press Release 20 September 2016 In a deal brokered by Martin Wright of Media-Mergers (www.mediamergers.co.uk) The London Stationery Show, the UK’s most important trade exhibition for the paper and writing products industry, its consumer awareness campaign National Stationery Week, and Stationery Magazine have been acquired by Ocean Media Group, a leading provider of exhibitions, […]

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Apple Allows Publishers To Sell Subs Inside News App

In the latest progress-with-caveats, Apple is allowing publishers to sell digital subscriptions from inside the Apple News app, giving them access to a much larger potential subscriber base. But that’s hedged around, as always, by constraints intended to maintain consumer privacy — and Apple’s control over access to them

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Informa to acquire Penton for £1.18b

Press release: London: Informa (LSE: INF.L), (“Informa”), the international Business Intelligence, Exhibitions, Events and Academic Publishing Group, has reached agreement with MidOcean Partners and Wasserstein & Co to acquire the entire issued and outstanding capital stock of Penton, the leading independent US-based Exhibitions and Professional Information Services group for £1,180m

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UK music streaming sales up 49 per cent

Music streaming revenues in the UK grew by 49 per cent, to £251m, last year according to a new report on the state of the industry — but the country’s live music market contracted by 2 per cent. Measuring Music, published by the industry’s umbrella group UK Music, found that the growth in streaming services such as Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music is “the key to renewed and continued growth for British music and its artists globally”

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Dentsu Aegis Buys Retail Consulting Specialist Cosin

Cosin & Associados Consultoria e Serviços de Informática – to give it its full title – was established in 2005 by brothers Arnaldo and Alessandro Cosin, who previously worked in major consulting companies Accenture, IBM and CapGemini. The firm’s services include business consulting, IT consulting and project management with a deep specialism in retail. Based in São Paulo, it now employs around 200 professionals

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