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Instinctif Partners has acquired financial services PR agency Wriglesworth, creating a 90-strong corporate practice in London. For the full story read PR Week

Organiser Media 10 has today announced the acquisition of dedicated event for timber construction, Timber Expo. The event is to run as a key part of UK Construction Week (UKCW), featuring nine construction-focused events taking place at the NEC, on 6-11 October 2015. For the full exclusive read Exhibition News

Clarion, organiser of more than 200 leading events worldwide, has been sold to global asset management firm Providence Equity

Local language sites will debut in Sweden, Norway and Denmark in the first quarter of 2015, and Cosmopolitan Nigeria was unveiled in late December. The company is looking at other African nations, including Ghana, Kenya and Botswana, said Duncan Edwards, chief executive of Hearst Magazines International.

Immediate Media has reported a 75% rise in profits to £14.3m in its last financial year. Immediate Media, which struck a £121m deal with BBC Magazines to buy, licence or contract publish its 34 titles in 2011, saw group operating profits rise from £8.2m to £14.4m in the year to the end of March 2014

ALM, a leader in specialized industry news and information, announced a deal to acquire Summit Professional Networks, the publisher of Investment Advisor and several prominent insurance and legal publications, including National Underwriter and InsideCounsel

INCISIVE MEDIA – parent company of Financial Director & Accountancy Age – has announced refinancing agreement with private equity firm Alchemy, which will see the the firm take a majority stake in the business

When the initial wave of native advertising began just a few years ago, the advertisers were predominantly publishers, not advertisers in the traditional sense.

Wunderman acquires majority stake in digital marketing agency Phantasia in Peru

Sky is facing the strongest competition in its 25-year history — with telecoms groups BT and Liberty Global on one flank, and online challengers such as Netflix and Google, on the other. In the past three years, its shares have underperformed all of those rivals

It’s a hit with the millennial generation and predicts revenue of $1bn this year, so what can young company teach its rivals

Marcoms giant Dentsu Aegis Network has acquired Toronto-based digital creative firm SPOKE Agency, which offers a range of services for clients the in the lifestyle, retail and entertainment sectors

Havas has acquired US based integrated communications and experiential marketing agency Formula, giving the French PR firm access to new offices in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco

Spin doctors for mergers and acquisitions may get swept up in the deal action. If anyone knows how to assess the climate for takeovers, it should be financial public relations advisers.

WPP, the world’s largest communications services group, is leading a syndicate investing US$250 million in Bruin Sports Capital, a global sports marketing firm launched by George Pyne

Vivendi’s Universal Music Group and advertising group Havas have joined forces in the hope of boosting revenue from artists via data mining at a time of falling record and digital sales

Everybody is watching Time Inc. the world’s most famous magazine publisher, which created the original newsweekly in 1923, is defined by iconic brands – Fortune, Life, Sports Illustrated, People, Entertainment Weekly, Money, InStyle, and Time itself. Throughout the twentieth century, it set the pace for magazine, newspaper and even TV journalism all over the world

For all the focus on social media and the next generation of bright shiny communications technologies, the most important “digital tool” in the workforce is one of its oldest — email. Social media, by contrast, barely even registers, according to the most recent findings from the Pew Research Center’s ongoing tracking study on the way the Internet impacts society

The US newspaper, which has accelerated its search for digital revenues since being bought by Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos for $250m last year, has been approached about licensing the software it has developed to power its website

Emap, the publisher of trade magazines from Retail Week to Drapers, is expected to report its highest growth for 13 years, as a result of a recovery plan instituted by chief executive Natasha Christie-Miller