Deals

Acquisition expands Questex’s reach in pharmaceuticals, life sciences and health care

Press Release: NEWTON, MA ─ July 13, 2016 ─ Questex, a leading global business information and events company, today announced it has acquired The AHC Company Limited, organizer of The Annual Hotel Conference, the United Kingdom’s leading industry event in the individual, boutique, branded and consortium hotel segments.

The three-day conference and trade show, held each May in Atlanta, joins AI’s Media/Communications group

Time Inc. UK has acquired Collective’s UK ad network business for an undisclosed sum on Tuesday

London-headquartered agency MHP has announced a new strategic partnership with New-York based Dukas Linden Public Relations (DLPR), and a new office in Germany

Canadian buyout group Onex and Baring Private Equity Asia have agreed to acquire the units in cash. The share price of Thomson Reuters was up 1.3 per cent to $40.89 in out-of-hours trading at the time of writing. The intellectual property and science business provides information, support tools and services to governments, academia, publishers and corporations

Press Release: WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company Grey Group, the global marketing communications network, has acquired a majority stake in the holding company of Famous, a leading creative agency in Belgium

Healthcare data and intelligence firm Definitive Healthcare has acquired Billian’s HealthData, which provides data and analytics on US healthcare organizations, along with access to more than two million healthcare executives including one million physicians

Global management consultancy Accenture has bought a majority stake in Tokyo, Japan-based full service digital agency IMJ Corporation, which offers strategic planning, data analytics and web integration. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1996, IMJ provides a suite of services to support clients’ digital marketing activities across multiple platforms and channels. At its core, the company has access to large sets of transactional and non-transactional data, generated and made available through clients’ owned media, combined with IMJ’s ability to convert this data into insight

Press Release: WPP announces that it has acquired Conexance MD, SAS (“Conexance”), operator of the leading data co-operative covering consumer transactions in France. Conexance is a database marketing company and a leader in providing proprietary statistical modeling to identify consumer behaviours and attributes that are strong predictors of future purchases. Conexance’s solutions provide improved performance for customer prospecting as well as building customer loyalty both online and offline. Conexance’s data cooperative offers more than 25 million individual household buyers and 32 million digital profiles qualified by one billion business transactions from more than 500 data-contributing retailers and merchants

Fate of print edition unknown as Markets Media undergoes digital redesign

The London-based art and fashion magazine will arrive as the 12th digital channel in the Vice Media portfolio

Johnston Press has sold off three newspapers covering the Isle of Man to rivals Tindle Newspapers in a deal worth £4.25m. Set to change ownership are The Isle of Man Examiner and the Isle of Man Courier, both established in the 1880s, and the Manx Independent, founded in 1987

Hibert Publishing has sold Colorado Parent and Westchester Family in two separate deals that owner Gary Hibert said likely mean the end for the company he’s run since Nov. 2012. Parties close to the deals declined to share the terms of sale. Westchester Family, five ancillary publications, and its website were acquired by Community News Group (CNG), a publisher of New York-based magazines and newspapers. The monthly magazine has a circulation of 35,000 and will retain most of its staff

WPP announces that it has agreed to make a strategic investment in All Def Digital, Inc. (“ADD”), a digital media company founded by hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons, in the US. ADD’s clients include NBC Universal and Samsung. The company was founded by Simmons in 2013. It employs approximately 35 people and is based in Los Angeles. […]

WPP announces that it has agreed to make a strategic investment in Woven Digital, Inc. (“Woven”), a digital media company that targets the millennial male market, in the US.

Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper group has mounted a major challenge to BBC radio with a £220m takeover of Wireless Group, the owner of the Premier League football broadcaster talkSport.

After its persistent efforts to buy tronc, formerly Tribune Publishing, Gannett Co., Inc. announced its plans to acquire digital marketing company ReachLocal, Inc. with the goal to enhance Gannett’s digital revenue by 50%

Future have agreed terms to acquire the holding company of Imagine Publishing for shares in Future worth £14.2m

Hearst has acquired a majority stake in MedHOK, Inc., a Tampa-based startup and software-as-a-service provider to the healthcare industry, the company announced yesterday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but upon the deal’s anticipated completion this summer, MedHOK will join Hearst Business Media’s healthcare information solutions group, which includes the companies FDB, Zynx Health, MCG, and Homecare Homebase.