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
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (“Euromoney”), the international online information and events group, today announces that it has acquired a 10 percent interest in Zanbato Inc (“Zanbato”), an international private capital placements platform and workflow tools provider, for a consideration of US$5.5m, funded from its existing cash resources. The investment is part of a US$14m Series B […]
Deal gives Condé Nast an instant foothold in music content and access to a younger audience segment.Condé Nast announced today it acquired online music site Pitchfork
Thebe Reed Exhibitions is delighted to announce that it has acquired Africa Automation Fair, the premier automation industry event in Southern Africa.
After a round of divestment comes a round of consolidation, in a process reminiscent of musical chairs combined with bumper cars.Gannett Co., the newspaper publisher that recently spun off from the broadcast TV company now known as Tegna, announced that it is buying Journal Media Group
