Harte Hanks today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its B2B research businesses, Aberdeen Group and Harte Hanks Market Intelligence, to subsidiaries of Halyard Capital
Easyfairs has announced the acquisition of Tank Storage Forum, as part of the company’s ongoing strategy to deepen its support of the bulk liquid storage market. The acquisition includes Tank World Expo, which takes place on 13-14 April 2015 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The development follows the recent acquisition of Tank Storage magazine.
TES Global, the global digital education business, today announced the acquisition of online global higher education job network UniJobs
Lynda.com, a California-based company, has created hundreds of thousands of video tutorials in multiple languages, helping people to learn “software, technology, creative and business skills to achieve personal and professional goals”.
A press release dated early March 15 from Inflexion Private Equity Partners announced an investment in Closer Still – a secondary buy-out from “…Pheonix with NVM valuing the business at US$100m” (comment by JEGI). The text of the release said: Inflexion is pleased to announce that it has completed a Partnership Capital, minority investment, in […]
The sale price, revealed during Meredith’s earnings call today, is $60 million up front, with a profit sharing arrangement that will be paid out in Meredith’s fiscal 2018, estimated to be 3.5 times first-year cash flow. Also included in the deal are Shape’s digital assets, as well as the digital assets for Natural Health and […]
Vivendi, the owner of Universal Music Group and Canal Plus, this week entered exclusive talks with Orange to acquire a majority stake in Dailymotion, the online video site. The deal will be the first of many, Mr de Puyfontaine (Vivendi CEO) tells the Financial Times in an interview amid visits to Vivendi’s US-based shareholders. For the full […]
The first show under the new ownership is the UK Summer Motorhome and Caravan Show scheduled for The Kent Showground, Detling, on June 6 and 7. The other events now coming under Mortons’ banner are the UK Spring Motorhome and Caravan Show as well as the UK Autumn Motorhome and Caravan Show, both held at the […]
The Chelsea Magazine Company has acquired three specialist coffee-table consumer titles – The English Home, The English Garden and Discover Britain – from Archant Community Media for an undisclosed sum. Following its acquisition of Little Media in 2014, The Chelsea Magazine Company continues to expand its portfolio, which now includes 15 titles in three distinct groups – Parenting, […]
Haymarket Media, Inc, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Group DCA—an interactive digital communications agency specializing in multi-channel engagement of health care providers—from PDI Inc.
Rumours about a possible acquisition of Twitter have started surfacing yet again. Earlier this week, Twitter’s shares rose by up to 4.8% as rumours of Google and Yahoo planning a potential buyout started surfacing.
The French media conglomerate Vivendi is looking at a possible skyacquisition of pay-TV group Sky, as one of several options to expand the reach of its own TV group Canal Plus
ITV is on the verge of paying up to $950m (£630m) for the TV division of The Weinstein Company, the production studio set up by veteran film and TV producer Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob, according to reports
TEN, The Enthusiast Network, announced its acquisition of TORQUE.TV, as it looks towards a summer launch of a new over-the-top video platform
Vox Media, the US digital publisher, has bought a data science start-up as it looks to track more closely how readers view, share and interact with content across the internet
Next Fifteen Communications, parent company of PR firms including Lexis and Bite, has spent £5.4m to secure outright ownership of digital design agency Beyond and content marketing agency Republic Publishing
Vivendi has confirmed a bid for Orange-owned YouTube rival Dailymotion. The French media group, which owns Universal Music and Canal+, confirmed reports it was in talks to buy a majority stake in the video site, in a deal thought to be worth €250m (£182.6m) for a 75 to 80 per cent share.
Clio Online’s portfolio offers a range of digital learning portals for a majority of subjects and grades, accompanied by an advanced learning management platform.
Trade shows have become a particularly sought after asset in media M&A lately. B2B publisher 1105 Media has just sold its education technology events to LRP Publications
French industrialist Vincent Bolloré has increased his stake in Vivendi, tightening his grip on the media and content group on the eve of a showdown with activist shareholders.
