French advertising giant Publicis (Paris: FR0000130577 – news) said Wednesday it had bought Australia’s leading independent media agency Match Media. Publicis said Match, which has 75 staff based in Sydney, will be become part of its ZenithOptimedia Group’s “newly launched global media network, Blue 449”.
UBM plc (LSE: UBM-LN) today announces the acquisition of Hospitalar, Latin America’s largest healthcare tradeshow, from SPFC Group
Vox Media, announced Tuesday night that it is buying influential tech news site and scoop machine Re/Code. Terms of the deal were not disclosed
U.K.-based information and events company Informa has been making an aggressive push into the U.S. trade show market.
Newsquest Media Group, one of the leading regional media groups in the UK, announced today that it has acquired Romanes Media Group, for an undisclosed sum. Romanes is a local news publishing business operating in Scotland, Berkshire and Northern Ireland. The Romanes newspaper portfolio comprises one daily, 19 weekly paid-fors and nine weekly frees, and […]
WPP announces that Always Marketing Services, China’s leading field and shopper marketing company, has agreed to acquire 3ree, an integrated marketing company based in Singapore
FanSided’s unique fan-focused editorial voice, very popular mobile app and personalized digital newsletter are behind FanSided’s rapidly growing popularity among millennial sports and entertainment fans. FanSided’s community of 1,500+ contributors will deepen Sports Illustrated’s local sports coverage and add more weight to the brand’s new customization platform, which is set to launch later this year.
Luxury goods group LVMH is negotiating to acquire the French daily newspaper Le Parisien for €50m (£35m), reports the Financial Times.
The popularity of the Cannes Lions advertising festival and a surge in demand at environmental data business Groundsure drove a 27% increase in profits at parent company Top Right last year
PAINWeek runs the leading U.S. event for pain management, which takes place annually in September in Las Vegas. PAINWeek addresses a key part of neurology, pain management, providing Tarsus with increased exposure to a key area of the preventative medicine market
his move would seem to indicate that Dentsu Aegis is planting its flag to assert its serious intent in the field of content. It gets an outfit that is close to being best-in-class in its field, one that will help differentiate it from its competitors and helping it to position itself as a true “one stop shop”
The magazine, which began in December 1945, will continue to be run by the same publisher and editorial team. A new independent editorial board will be established, to be chaired by Dave Gordon, formerly head of major sporting events at the BBC
WPP has acquired a majority stake in Two Circles Limited, a data-driven sports marketing agency based in London. Following the deal, Two Circles will become part of ESP Properties, GroupM’s newly launched company serving rightsholders from the worlds of sports and entertainment
Dentsu Aegis Network has bought celebrated content agency John Brown Media for an undisclosed sum
DC Thomson, a long-standing investor of ShortList Media, has bought the 50% of the multimedia company it did not already own for an undisclosed sum.
Apollo Global Management has broken off talks to the buy Digital First Media, one of the largest newspaper chains in the country — whose stable includes the Denver Post, the San Jose Mercury News and the New Haven Register.
Maney’s high-quality portfolio consists of scholarly books and journals in Materials Science and Engineering, the Humanities and Social Sciences, and Health Sciences, and complements our existing journals in these areas. Many of these titles are published in partnership with societies, universities, and institutes
Mack Brooks Exhibitions Group has announced the acquisition of the rights to the Chemspec series of events from Quartz Group. The Chemspec Events brand is dedicated to the fine and speciality chemicals industry, and consists of a portfolio of exhibitions in Europe, Eurasia and Asia, as well as the Speciality Chemicals magazine. For the full story read Exhibition News
The agreement between Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, owner of Macmillan Science and Education, and BC Partners, advisors of funds, which own Springer, was announced on 15 January 2015. On 6 May, key competition authorities, including the European Union and the US Department of Justice, cleared the merger.
Retale, a location-based mobile platform connecting more than 3.5 million shoppers with their favourite major retailers locally and based on the German kaufDA business model, announced it has secured US$12m in funding from its existing investor base among which Axel Springer holds the largest stake
