Archant has announced the acquisition of general aviation website, UKGA.com, the site for private pilots. It bolsters Archant’s aviation offering, joining its aviation magazine, Pilot
Penton has acquired London-based MRO Network, a media company targeting the aircraft maintenance and repair market. The deal, which includes events, publications and digital products, expands the company’s aviation assets and provides deeper coverage of the market’s supply chain
One of London’s hottest independent, digital media-buying agencies, Essence Digital, is in advanced talks to sell to WPP. Essence is Google’s main global digital agency and other clients include Expedia and eBay. No price was put on the planned Essence deal, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
WPP announces that Landor, a leading strategic brand consulting and design firm, has acquired a majority stake in multi award-winning motion design studio ManvsMachine.
Adaptris Group is a fast-growing supply chain integration and e-solutions company, says RBI. It has a focus on the agriculture and food industry network via its First 4 Farming brand as well as through DBT, a division that provides solutions to the animal health sector
The buyout titan Blackstone is leading the race to buy the Cannes advertising festival’s parent company as its current owner weighs the alternative of a £1.1bn stock market listing
Time inc has acquired two websites focused on women operated by Say Media Inc. and magazine editor Jane Pratt, according to people familiar with the situation
Time Inc. (UK) Ltd. has announced that it has acquired International Craft & Hobby Fair Limited (ICHF), an events business specialising in trade and consumer events in the crafts arena
Informa’s Global Exhibitions Division has expanded its Life Sciences portfolio with the acquisition of FIME Exhibition & Congress in Miami, Florida. Now in its 25th year, FIME serves the communities of North and South America with a primary focus on medical technology, medical products and supplies, medical services, and medical equipment
Teneo, which is headquartered in New York, also acquired Blue Rubicon and StockWell in July, making financial and corporate comms agency Pendomer its third UK acquisition
Private equity firm Lonsdale Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in Ocean Media Group, organiser of UK-based events, online solutions and a series of specialist publications.
James Murdoch has said that 21st Century Fox is not happy being a partial shareholder in pan-European pay-TV broadcaster Sky
This means a new chapter opens in the long history of Ipack-Ima, one of the world’s leading exhibitions for processing and packaging technology. Fiera Milano has been the venue of Ipack-Ima since its very beginning. Now it owns the Italian show, as well
After several years of casual discussions between the companies, Active Interest Media has acquired Des Moines, Iowa-based August Home Publishing, an enthusiast media company in the woodworking, gardening and cooking markets
Big changes are afoot at the country’s biggest magazine publisher: Time Inc. is shuttering All You magazine, effective with its December 2015 issue. It is acquiring HelloGiggles, an online media company which targets millennial consumers with pop culture, beauty and lifestyle content
Owner of franchise in Northern Ireland and loss-making channel UTV Ireland has been in talks with ITV since August ITV is understood to have been able to drive a hard deal owing to the poor launch of UTV Ireland.
The publisher of the Daily Mirror is poised to announce a £220m deal to take control of Local World, which owns more than 100 regional titles, to create a local newspaper powerhouse.Trinity Mirror, which also owns the Sunday People and Sunday Mirror, is thought to be close to securing a deal with Local World and could announce completion this week
Retains HOW magazines and HOW University as part of refocusing effort
French media and content group Vivendi has returned to the world of video gaming, taking 6.6 per cent and 6.2 per cent in Paris-based Ubisoft and Gameloft respectively for a combined €160m. The move sent shares in Ubisoft up 11 per cent and Gameloft up 13 per cent on Thursday morning
Chime Communications could grow by at least 10 per cent per year organically under new majority owner Providence, CEO Christopher Satterthwaite has told PRWeek as the £374m sale of the sports marketing and PR group
