Penton Media, the once troubled trade publisher, has been sold to Wasserstein & Co., and will be merged with Prism Business Media, creating a new b-to-b giant, with revenue nearing $500 million
CMP Media’s assets include 14 magazines, eight events, numerous supplements and newsletters, custom products and more than 20 online properties
Exponent Private Equity today announces the £13m acquisition of Magicalia, a leading UK online publishing group which was launched in 1999 by joint managing directors Adam Laird and Jeremy Tapp
TechTarget announced today it has acquired Los Angeles-based 20/20 Software, operator of the web site 2020software.com. 2020software.com is the only site focused on providing detailed feature-comparison information and access to trial software for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) seeking trial versions of CRM, ERP, accounting, human resources, salesforce-automation and other business software
Wilmington Group plc, the professional information and training group, is pleased to announce the acquisition of two directories
Kleinwort Capital Limited (‘KCL’) has today announced an investment of £7 million into Imagine Publishing Limited (‘Imagine’) to fund the acquisition of certain assets from the receivers of Highbury Entertainment Limited
ACC Capital sells Puzzler Media for £85m to DC Thomson representing a very good 3.9x mutiple on the buy-in in 2002.
Wilmington has completed the sale of its Drinks publishing division to William Reed Publishing
Wilmington has completed the sale of its Drinks publishing division to William Reed Publishing
Future plc announces that it has entered into an agreement with the Board of Highbury House Communications plc (“Highbury”) to acquire 38 magazine titles, and associated assets, for a cash consideration of £30.5 million
Future Network has further extended its magazine portfolio by buying A&S for £5.95m
Wiley has acquired A&M Publishing Ltd., the Guildford, U.K.-based publisher for the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, and GIT Verlag GmbH, a Darmstadt, Germany-based publisher for the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, security and engineering industries. The terms of the transactions, which closed during the week of April 15, were not disclosed.
