Deals

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

UBM Plc is exploring a sale of PR Newswire Association LLC in a deal that could value the distributor of press releases at more than $700 million

TES Global – the largest network of teachers in the world with over 5.9 million registered teachers – has acquired Blendspace, a San Francisco-based company providing web-based tools that enable teachers to create digital, self-paced lessons for their classrooms and students

Worlds largest seafood news provider, IntraFish Media, has agreed to sell its UK weekly newspaper, Fishing News. The buyer is Kent-based Kelsey Media

Time Inc. (UK) has announced the acquisition of UK Cycling Events (UKCE), the UK’s leading provider of premium cycling events

Blenheim Chalcot and its portfolio company Contentive last week announced the acquisition of the Interactive Marketing division comprising ClickZ, SES and SEW from Incisive Media.

April 21 2015 – Blenheim Chalcot and its portfolio company Contentive are delighted to announce the acquisition of the Interactive Marketing division comprising ClickZ, SES and SEW from Incisive Media. Blenheim Chalcot intends to continue to grow and develop these great businesses serving the digital marketing community worldwide. Blenheim Chalcot looks forward to working with […]

The Havas Group is acquiring EGC & Associes, a French agency specializing in general-interest live events. EGC & Associes will become part of Havas Event, the Havas Group’s event agency in France and Julien Savino, current president and CEO of EGC & Associes will now become partner at Havas Event