Deals

ITV has sold Friends Reunited to Brightsolid, a subsidiary of Beano and Dandy publisher DC Thomson, for £25m

IHS Inc. today announced it has acquired the remaining 49.9 percent of Lloyd’s Register-Fairplay (LRF) that it currently does not own from Lloyd’s Register giving IHS 100 percent ownership of LRF

Wilmington announce that earlier today they completed a transaction with Progressive Media for them to acquire Press Gazette

Perform has completed the majority share acquisition of Dutch company, Global Sports Media

TechTarget today announced the acquisition of The Brian Madden Company, the leading independent, website and conference to address the needs of IT decision makers on the topics of desktop virtualization, terminal services, and application virtualization

Dennis Publishing has bought technology website bit-tech.net for an undisclosed sum

TSL Education, publisher of the Times Educational Supplement and the Times Higher Education, has acquired Education Data Surveys (EDS) for an undisclosed sum. EDS provides research and information about the education sector and is the leading provider of management information on the job market for classroom teachers and leaders in the education community

TSL Education Limited today announces the sale of its 43% holdings in ECCTIS Limited to leading student recruitment, marketing and management company, Hobsons plc.

IHS Inc, a leading global source of critical information and insight, today announced the acquisition of Prime Publications Limited

Motivcom, the marketing and motivation group, has acquired Zibrant, one of the UK’s leading event and motivation companies.

Wilmington Group plc announce the completion of the sale of its non-core businesses in its Design, Construction, Power, Catering, Automotive and Specialist markets to Progressive Media Publications

Springer Science+Business Media has signed an agreement to fully acquire FMC, the leading commercial dental publisher in the United Kingdom.

IMAS Publishing, publisher of TV Technology and other professional audio and video magazines, newspapers and online content, has been acquired after 31 years of ownership by founder Stevan Dana

TechTarget today announced it recently acquired TechnologyGuide.com, Inc., a company with a portfolio of Internet content sites that provide product reviews, price comparisons and user forums for mobile technology products such as laptops and smartphones. Additionally, TechTarget acquired Ajaxian, Inc., a leading Web site and conference which provides content for the community of developers for ” Ajax” (Asynchronous Javascript and XML), a web development technique for creating interactive web applications

TSL Education, the UK’s leading educational publisher, today announces that it has sold Nursery World, and its corresponding website (www.nurseryworld.co.uk) to Haymarket Media Group. Nursery World is the market leader in the sector and is targeted at nursery managers and staff in the UK. The successful 82-year-old publication has a fully paid circulation of over 20,000

Move Creates Global Powerhouse for Aerospace, Defense and Security Insight and Analysis

Wilmington has completed the sale of the entire issued share capital of WDIS to Optima

TSL Education, the UK’s leading educational publisher, today announces that it has been acquired by Charterhouse Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. Under the arrangement, the existing management team will be staying with the business to drive through TSL’s plans for growth

In press release today Incisive Media announced the acqustion of VNU Business Publications.This was a back to back transaction from 3i following their acquisition of the Dutch and European publishing interests.

Press Release: MidOcean Partners and Wasserstein Co., LP today announced an agreement for co-ownership of Prism Business Media, upon completion of Prism’s previously announced acquisition of Penton Media. Under the agreement, MidOcean Partners will acquire a 50% ownership interest in the combined Prism/Penton entity from Wasserstein Co. and its investment partners, Highfields Capital Management and Lexington Partners.