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.
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
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