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WPP announces that Landor, a leading strategic brand consulting and design firm, has acquired a majority stake in multi award-winning motion design studio ManvsMachine.

The move signals the failure of the News UK title’s paywall experiment and comes after The Sun began making web content available for free in June.

Adaptris Group is a fast-growing supply chain integration and e-solutions company, says RBI. It has a focus on the agriculture and food industry network via its First 4 Farming brand as well as through DBT, a division that provides solutions to the animal health sector

The buyout titan Blackstone is leading the race to buy the Cannes advertising festival’s parent company as its current owner weighs the alternative of a £1.1bn stock market listing

Time inc has acquired two websites focused on women operated by Say Media Inc. and magazine editor Jane Pratt, according to people familiar with the situation

Time Inc. (UK) Ltd. has announced that it has acquired International Craft & Hobby Fair Limited (ICHF), an events business specialising in trade and consumer events in the crafts arena

World-renowned experts and famous faces from the world of science, engineering and technology are set to take centre stage at the launch of New Scientist Live at ExCeL London next year.With a four-zone format embracing key themes of the Universe, our Planet, Brain and Body, and Technology and Engineering, the event will take place from 22 to 25 September 2016, also offering visitors an exhibition of innovative services and products created by modern science

Informa’s Global Exhibitions Division has expanded its Life Sciences portfolio with the acquisition of FIME Exhibition & Congress in Miami, Florida. Now in its 25th year, FIME serves the communities of North and South America with a primary focus on medical technology, medical products and supplies, medical services, and medical equipment

Teneo, which is headquartered in New York, also acquired Blue Rubicon and StockWell in July, making financial and corporate comms agency Pendomer its third UK acquisition

Net sales WPP, for the three months up to 30 September, was £2.52 billion – up 3.3 per cent on a like-for-like comparison with the same period in 2014

Private equity firm Lonsdale Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in Ocean Media Group, organiser of UK-based events, online solutions and a series of specialist publications.

Publicis Groupe continues to lag behind its peers in organic growth for 2015. Today the company reported just 0.7% organic growth (which excludes the impact of currency fluctuations, acquisitions and asset sales) for the third quarter and 1% for the first nine months.By comparison, Omnicom posted growth of 6.1% for Q3 and 5.5% for the first nine months.

Havas maintained its organic growth rate of 5.5 per cent in the third quarter of 2015, with North America proving to be a “powerhouse” and Europe and Asia Pacific also performing strongly.

Apple’s News app has launched in the UK with a range of publisher partners including the BBC, Telegraph, Guardian, Sun and Sky News.The Apple News app, which aims to aggregate digital news media, has launched with 14 UK newspaper and magazine publishers.

James Murdoch has said that 21st Century Fox is not happy being a partial shareholder in pan-European pay-TV broadcaster Sky

Joe Ripp CEO of Time inc claims that “there is so much bad content out there, that quality content (as delivered by the company’s numerous brands), will win through and engage readers.”

Although Immediate Media Co is still a month shy of its four-year birthday, it has made a lot of headway in the marketplace. Bureau said it has shifted its focus from being a publication company to becoming a special interest content and platform company.

City AM is launching a trial from Tuesday that will blur out text of stories on cityam.com for desktop users of Firefox browsers who are detected using ad blocking software

Adspend in the UK grew to a record high of £9.42 billion in the first half of the year, according to the latest Advertising Association/Warc Expenditure Report.UK advertising expenditure grew by 5.8 per cent, according to the report. Internet spend for H1 2015 increased by 13.3 per cent to £3.98 billion. The strong growth in digital spend with driven by mobile, which accounted for 79 per cent.

This means a new chapter opens in the long history of Ipack-Ima, one of the world’s leading exhibitions for processing and packaging technology. Fiera Milano has been the venue of Ipack-Ima since its very beginning. Now it owns the Italian show, as well