Newsquest, the UK’s second-biggest regional newspaper group, has held takeover talks with Archant, owner of titles including the Ham & High in London and anti-Brexit paper the New European, as consolidation continues to sweep the industry. However, the talks apparently ended in part due to reticence from Newsquest’s parent Gannett
One of the last big family-owned newspaper publishers in the UK, CN Group, is being sold to US-owned regional publisher Newsquest The group has been helmed by four generations of the Burgess family and boasts a newspaper history going back 200 years to the Carlisle Patriot. John Burgess, great grandfather of current CN Group chairman Robin Burgess, became the newspaper’s editor in 1868
Messe Frankfurt New Era Business Media Ltd has acquired Thailand Lighting Fair and Thailand Building Fair to expand the worldwide portfolio of its Light + Building brand of trade fairs.
Press release: The Bauer Media Group has acquired the UK’s biggest fishing show, The Big One . The Big One is held annually each spring in Farnborough, and attracts almost 20,000 enthusiastic anglers who attend the most important event on the angling calendar.
SME London, the events company behind London Fashion Week Festival, has bought the rights to the Clothes Show brand from Haymarket Media Group
Centaur Media has completed the sale of Corporate Adviser to John Greenwood, who has edited the publication since the year of its inception in 2006
Forbes Media has announced the acquisition of British online business title The Memo for an undisclosed fee as it looks to expand into Europe.
Press Release: Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (“Euromoney”), the international business information and events group, today announces that it has reached a binding agreement to sell its Global Markets Intelligence Division (“GMID”), consisting of CEIC and EMIS, to a consortium of CITIC Capital Partners Management Limited (“CITIC Capital”), the private equity arm of CITIC Capital Holdings Limited, and Caixin Global Limited (“Caixin”), (“the Consortium”), for an equity value of $180.5 million
The owner of the Mirror newspapers has sealed a £127m deal with Richard Desmond to buy his Express and Star national titles, as well as celebrity magazine OK!
US tech consultancy Gartner is selling its CEB Talent Assessment business to UK-based Exponent Private Equity for $400m, just a year after it acquired parent firm CEB in a deal valued at around $2.6bn. The firm has also reported Q4 2017 revenue up sharply to $1.01 billion.
On Wednesday, Meredith Corporation announced its acquisition of Time Inc. was complete. February 1 marks the first day of operations for the combined company.
Press release: Infopro Digital announces agreement to enter into the acquisition of DOCUgroup and accelerates its international expansion
Press release: Diversified Communications today announced they have acquired Tent Exhibitions Ltd., a UK company that owns London Design Fair and co-located events: Tent London and Super Brands London
Preyss Release: London based Clarion Events, one of the world’s leading independent events organisers, has completed a merger with Global Sources, a leading Asian exhibitions and online B2B marketplace operator based in Hong Kong. Funds managed by Blackstone will control the combined group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed
ngus Montgomery Ltd, one of the world’s oldest exhibition and events organisers, has acquired a majority stake in FIT Events Ltd, organiser of the Fabricator Installer Trade (FIT) Show
Press release:Terrapinn [www.terrapinn.com], the global events company, announced today that it has acquired Science Media Partners (SMP) [www.sciencemediapartners.com], an international events and publishing company based in the UK and focused on next-generation government, citizen and consumer-based identity solutions.
RELX Group announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of ThreatMetrix, for a consideration of £580m payable in cash.
Thomson Reuters is in advanced discussions for a sale of part of its financial and risk business, its largest unit by revenues, to US private equity firm Blackstone. The company confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that it was considering a sale of a stake in the business to Blackstone but would retain an interest in the unit.
Press release: dmg events Middle East, Asia & Africa, a leading international events company, has acquired boutique business forum organizer Atticus Events. Focused specifically on the interior design of luxury hotels, HI Design organises specialist business meetings between key buyers from currently active hotel projects and a curated selection of International FF&E suppliers. With each edition held in a different five star hotel location, HI Design events are currently run annually in Europe, Asia and MEA.
Effective 23 January 2018, the Belgian division of the multinational group Easyfairs – specialised in organising events and managing exhibition halls and congress centres – is taking over the event activities of the non-profit association Textirama.
