The owner of trade magazine publisher Incisive Media is exploring a £100m sale, seven years after it was seized by its lenders in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Incisive, owned by the private equity firm Alchemy, is working with the City adviser Arma Partners on a strategic review that is expected to lead to an auction process, City sources said
Business (MAB), part of the Mark Allen Group (MAG), completed its acquisition of three clusters of international conferences from London-based Industry Dynamics, last week
Press Release: Mortgage Brain Holdings has bought publishing company AE3 Media, which includes trade brand Mortgage Solutions, lender and broker awards scheme the British Mortgage Awards and top consumer brands Your Mortgage and Your Money. The move will capitalise on the assets and develop synergies between technology and data company Mortgage Brain, which has over […]
Four Communications has acquired retail and luxury sector specialist PR agency Rain Communications for an undisclosed sum – its second acquisition this month
Press Release: New York [July 25, 2016] – Dentsu Aegis Network today announced the acquisition of gyro, the largest independent global creative agency dedicated exclusively to business-to-business (B2B) marketing
Events marketing platform evvnt has announced the acquisition of Eventviva, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of the event discovery and ticketing platform is part of evvnts’ global expansion as the company focuses firmly on reaching the global audience of event organisers. Founded in 2012 by Aditya Patadia and Hardik Pandya, Eventviva has had more than 3.8 million events listed and has helped users to find local events in their city in over 1,000 cities worldwide
Organiser Prysm Group has acquired disability, rehabilitation, and homecare event, Naidex, from i2i Events for an undisclosed sum. “Naidex is, quite simply, exhibition royalty, and I can’t tell you how excited we all are to have acquired it,” said Nick Moss, MD of Prysm Group. “We are going to pour our hearts and souls into making the 43rd edition of Naidex a truly memorable event for the independent living sector, and the entire team can’t wait to get started.”
Mercury Events Ltd, organiser of the Wedding Fairs and the Baby & Toddler Shows has been acquired by Ocean Media Group. Matt Miller, MD of Mercury Events will join Ocean Media, taking on the responsibility for the new consumer division as managing director
BCD Meetings & Events (BCD M&E) acquired Zibrant, an award-winning Events Agency delivering national and international events in the UK, to strengthen and diversify its Events business in the European market
Verizon Communications will announce today its intent to acquire Yahoo’s core assets, including its search, video and mobile advertising businesses in a deal valued at about $4.8 billion, according to reports
Energy sector data firm Verisk Analytics is buying electricity and renewables sector information provider Greentech Media and will merge it with recently acquired research and consulting company Wood Mackenzie. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
The well-established international conferences MAB acquired include The European Manufacturing Summit and The North American Manufacturing Strategies Summit, alongside a number of specialist sector conferences in Food, Packaging and Pharmaceutical sectors.
Dentsu Aegis Network pulled ahead of WPP in marcoms mergers and acquisitions activity in the second quarter, as the rate of deals around the world was down 11 per cent compared with the same period last year
Clarion Events Ltd has boosted its supply chain and logistics portfolio with the acquisition of three global supply chain conferences and exhibitions from Industry Dynamics. The shows include the EMEA Supply Chain and Logistics Summit and Expo, the Smart Chain Annual Supply Chain Management and Innovations Summit in the USA, and the Brazilian Supply Chain […]
Apax Partners said July 19 it has agreed to buy Dominion Marine Media. Financial terms weren’t announced. Dominion Enterprises, a subsidiary of Landmark Media Enterprises, is the seller. Dominion Marine operates recreational marine digital marketplaces – BoatTrader, boats.com, YachtWorld, and CosasDeBarcos – which attract over 62 million unique visitors annually
Wilmington plc (“Wilmington”), the knowledge leader in Risk & Compliance, Finance, Legal, and Insight announces the acquisition by its subsidiary, Mercia Group Limited, of SWAT Group Limited (“SWAT” or “the Business”), a provider of training and technical compliance support to accountancy firms in London and the South West of England
Private equity firm Beringer Capital has acquired advertising trade publicationAdweek from Mediabistro Holdings. Terms were not disclosed, but the sale includes nine industry blogs in the Adweek Blog Network: AgencySpy, FishbowlNY, FishbowlDC, GalleyCat, LostRemote, PRNewser, SocialTimes, TVNewser and TVSpy.
A gossip magazine owner and former employee of Silvio Berlusconi has become the owner of Italian national newspaper Corriere della Sera in the latest shake up of the country’s media market. Urbano Cairo, a self made entrepreneur behind Cairo Communication and publisher of top-selling national gossip weeklies DiPiu and Diva, gained 48.8 per cent of shares tendered in a €1bn battle for RCS Mediagroup, Corriere della Sera’s loss making owner.
In April, the Brighton-based healthcare specialist was acquired by FTSE 250-listed healthcare outsourcer UDG Healthcare, becoming part of UDG’s Ashfield Healthcare Communications arm and ending Pegasus’ 24-year existence as an independent firm.
WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company, Grey Group, the global marketing communications network, has acquired a majority stake in Easycom Group, a social marketing agency in China.
