Deals

Reed Exhibitions has completed the acquisition of online educational platform ThinkGP from GenesisEd Pty Ltd

IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), a leading global source of critical information and insight, today announced it has acquired Rushmore Reviews, a Scotland-based company that provides premium, subscription-based service for drilling and completions benchmarking solutions in the oil and gas industry.

The ITE Group has acquired the India-based Entertainment Technology portfolio from Diversified Communications, as a welcome diversification from ITE’s dependence upon Russia

Media Business Insight, which publishes the industry magazines Broadcast and Screen International, has been sold by Top Right Group to the private equity firm Mobeus Equity Partners, which backed a management buyout

Easyfairs has expanded its portfolio of facilities and maintenance events with the launch of Cleaning 2015 at the NEC. The new show is set to feature alongside three complementary shows on 24-26 March, two of which are also organised by Easyfairs.

Batireno’s popularity has convinced Artexis Easyfairs take over the fair

The Mark Allen Group is adding to its music portfolio with its acquisition on Friday of the leading world music magazine, Songlines.

Marcoms giant Dentsu Aegis Network has acquired a majority stake in India’s social and digital media agency WATConsult. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed

DMGT announces that its consumer business, dmg media, has acquired Elite Daily, the news and entertainment website

Publicis Groupe (PGPEF.PK,PUBGY.PK) announced the acquisition of France-based digital marketing and social networks pure player, Monkees. Monkees is focusing particularly on retail and e-publishing. The agency will be integrated into the Publicis Activ to accelerate the digital growth of its East-West France regional agencies. For the full story read RTT News

Next Fifteen has announced plans for a share sale to raise about £4.3m

Penton, North America’s largest privately held professional information services company, announced today that it has acquired iNET Interactive, a leading event and digital information company that focuses on the booming Cloud, Hosting and Data Center segments of the technology sector.

Artexis Easyfairs has reached an agreement with company Con-Fuse about the acquisition of FACTS

The German agency covers a range of sectors including advertising, digital media, events and medical education and will now operate as Havas Life Bird & Schulte. Donna Murphy, global CEO of Havas Health, said: “Our partnership will combine industry-leading strategy and insight with highly honoured creativity to deliver best-in-class results for our clients with a grater market reach.

That deal would give BT the ability to offer customers a “quad play” package of home phone, broadband, TV and mobile

As first reported in EN last July, LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group has been announced as the buyer of the NEC in Birmingham

Holtzbrinck and BC Partners announced today that they have reached an agreement to merge Springer Science+Business Media in its entirety with the majority of Holtzbrinck-owned Macmillan Science and Education

The Havas Group has acquired Bird & Schulte Advertising, an award-winning agency based in Freiburg, Germany. The German agency, which offers a full spectrum of services for Rx and OTC, including advertising, digital media, events and medical education, will continue to build on its more-than-20-year track record of serving up what its clients’ brands need to succeed

According to a Sky News report today (12 January) LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Bank, is to be confirmed as the new owner of the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham

Private equity-owned publishing house Immediate Media has offered to sell three magazines in a bid to appease the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)