The decision to divest Maintec and Facilities Management was made to concentrate the organiser’s focus and resources on the growth of its international portfolios in engineering, packaging, oil, petroleum & gas storage, and the laboratory, pharma and healthcare sectors, stated Easyfairs
Magazines everywhere have been shredded by lost readers and advertising. But millions of worldwide sales are testimony to the global appeal of these disrupted brands. The business model may be broken but the brands are not. International editions of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, National Geographic, Men’s Health, Autocar, Time Out, GQ, Auto Bild, T3, Elle, Robb Report, and a hundred other magazines are reminders of huge audiences and halcyon days. But these long-established brands can now deliver a new future, taking publishers into retailing, consumer services, education, and screen entertainment – to compete with consumer products which are pushing into media content from the other direction
Omnicom Health Group has agreed to acquire BioPharm Communications, a specialist in multichannel marketing programs to physicians and healthcare practitioners for pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients. The acquisition is designed to bolster Omnicom’s data-driven marketing capabilities in the healthcare sector
News Corp press release: In a statement released with the earnings, the media firm said: “While we believe in the strength of our print properties, we are also investing energetically in the rapid pursuit of digital which is clearly evident in the transition at Dow Jones.
“At Dow Jones this quarter, digital accounted for more than 50% of total revenues for the first time, and digital-only subscribers at the Wall Street Journal grew to 893,000, representing nearly 45% of the base.”
Leading commercial real estate B2B media and events firm looks to capitalize on a decade’s worth of rapid expansion
A 23 percent year-over-year jump in digital advertising revenues as print losses begin to subside
IMS Health and healthcare consultancy Quintiles are planning to merge in an all-stock transaction which will value the combined company – Quintiles IMS Holdings – at $17.6 billion. Combined 2015 revenue for the two firms was around $7.2 billion
The listing, planned for June on the alternative investment market, would value the company at more than £200m. Oakley Capital, Time Out’s controlling shareholder since 2011, has confirmed “it has commenced a process of review of the investment in Time Out”
The company said organic revenue growth was 5.1% with 3.9% growth from acquisitions and 1.5% from currency fluctuations. By comparison the Interpublic Group last week reported organic revenue growth of 6.7%, Omnicom 3.8% and Publicis Groupe 2.9%
Havas reported that its revenue grew 7.8% in the first quarter to 506 million euros (about $569 million at today’s exchange rate) with organic growth, which strips out the impact of currency fluctuations, acquisitions and asset sales, was 3.4%.
About 1,500 jobs under threat after collapse of vital contract with Daily Mail publisher DMG Media
The world’s biggest advertising group has reported strong revenue growth in the first quarter as client spending in the US, UK and western Europe “perked up”. But warned that clients generally remained cautious amid a host of business pressures and geopolitical uncertainty
KPMG report also finds that 44% of UK adults are planning to block ads within the next six months
US telecoms group wants to offer an alternative to Google and Facebook but some are sceptical
Total market grows at 7.5% to £20bn in 2015 but national press reports 11% fall to £1.2bn and slowdown in digital ads
Gannett Co. (GCI), which owns USA TODAY and more than 100 other media properties across the country, said Monday it offered to buy Tribune Publishing (TPUB) for about $815 million, its second big expansion move since spinning off from its former parent less than a year ago
Samantha Cameron’s stepfather is in line to share a £40million windfall after selling part of the TV production business behind hit children’s show Octonauts. Viscount William Astor will split the cash with media mogul Lord Waheed Alli thanks to a deal which valued their firm Silvergate Media at between £70million and £80million. Shamrock Capital Advisers – a […]
The merger of WPP and STW in Australia creates an $850 million business. It dwarfs the nearest competition by a long way and CEO of the newly formed WPP AUNZ, Michael Connaghan, expects it to punch through $1 billion before too long. With more than 90 agencies in the combined business, consolidation is inevitable. Connaghan said as much, speaking to AdNews just hours after the merger was passed by shareholders
BJI serves the men’s apparel and women’s apparel and accessories markets under the following leading tradeshow brands: AccessoriesTheShow, EDIT, FAME, Moda, MRket and Stitch. These shows run multiple times a year and in some cases are located in the same venues as UBM shows. BJI also operates several websites and publications serving the fashion sector. In 2015, BJI’s revenues were approximately $40m – $33m from Events and $7m from Other Marketing Services
MediaPost LondonBlog: According to eMarketer’s figures, the one in five who will be blocking ads this year will rise to just over one in four (27%) next year. This means that while one in ten were blocking just over a year ago in 2014, it will be one in four just three years later. Government was spot on to label ad-blocking software a modern-day protection racket. Any tech that blocks ads on sites unless the publisher pays to be whitelisted is very accurately described as a protection racket
