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
PCM Healthcare is an independent medical education and communications agency: a team of passionate and talented people who develop novel approaches that are designed with outcomes in mind. PCM has two change-making divisions allowing the company to bring its innovative approach both to arm’s length educational initiatives and to medical communications
Penton has acquired World Tea Media, producer of the World Tea Expo, from F+W. Included in the transaction is the Expo, an online education and certification program and a news site
Independent integrated communications agency, Four Communications Group (Four), has acquired the Welsh market leading PR and design agency, Francis Balsom Associates Ltd (known as FBA). Four has acquired 100 per cent of the equity. The two companies already work together in a consortium called Four Cymru and this will be the trading name going forward for all work in Wales
French-based marketing services company Havas has announced the acquisition of MR group CSA and the Intervalles agency, from Bolloré Group, which is the majority shareholder in Havas itself.The acquired firms – which have combined gross margin of EUR 16m and headcount of 160 – were both wholly owned subsidiaries of Bolloré, which owns 60% of […]
Findlay Media, part of the Mark Allen Group, has completed the acquisition of The Airport Publishing Network (APN)
It has finally been announced in a press release: Imago Techmedia has been acquired by Clarion Events. The deal which completed on 1 September will see Imago Techmedia’s brands IP EXPO Europe, Cyber Security Europe, IP EXPO Manchester and UC EXPO come under the Clarion umbrella
Telentertainment oneevision and film company aims to expand hit cartoon characterinto new markets by taking control. Peppa Pig co-owner tertainment One is to take control of UK producer Astley Baker Davies, the creator of the hit cartoon character, in a deal worth £140m
Media General, the US television station owner, is facing pressure from an activist shareholder to call off its proposed $3.1bn deal to buy Meredith and instead sell itself to Nexstar Broadcasting Group.
Adds another 88 percent on top of its 9 percent for $343 million. Subscription business and millennial audience are big attractions
