Deals

WPP announces that it has acquired a 35% interest in Barrows, specialists in retail marketing solutions in fast-growing markets

Access Intelligence announced today the acquisition of LeadsCon, which serves the online lead generation industry through two preeminent conferences and other best-in-class content offerings for lead-generation marketers

JWT has agreed to acquire, by subscription for new shares, a minority stake in Converge Technologies Pvt Limited

JWT has agreed to acquire, by subscription for new shares, a minority stake in Converge Technologies Pvt Limited

Tarsus Group plc, the international business-to-business media group, has agreed to acquire 70 per cent. of leading Turkish exhibition organiser Lifemedia Fuarcilik A.S.

GCP Capital Partners LLP (“GCP Capital”) announces the formation of Briefing Media through the acquisition of two leading business media assets, Farmers Guardian and Pulse from UBM.

IPG has acquired Frukt Communications, the London-based music-focused entertainment marketing company

he purchase involves seven titles published by Ian Allan (Buses, Classic Aircraft, Combat Aircraft, Hornby, Modern Railways, Railways Illustrated, and Vintage Roadscene) together with a number of partworks and Annual publications and four Ian Allan owned franchise titles Bus and Coach Preservation, Classic Bus, Modern Locomotives Illustrated and Steam Days.

The purchase involves seven titles published by Ian Allan (Buses, Classic Aircraft, Combat Aircraft, Hornby, Modern Railways, Railways Illustrated, and Vintage Roadscene) together with a number of partworks and Annual publications and four Ian Allan owned franchise titles Bus and Coach Preservation, Classic Bus, Modern Locomotives Illustrated and Steam Days

HONG KONG, March 1, 2012 – Global Sources Ltd. (NASDAQ: GSOL) has entered into an agreement to acquire an 80 percent interest in the China (Shenzhen) International Brand Clothing & Accessories Fair (SZIC), one of the largest fashion shows in Asia, for a consideration of up to approximately US$17.3 million.

UBM plc today announces that it has acquired outright, or majority equity stakes in, the following four tradeshows for a total cash consideration of £19.4m and deferred consideration of up to £4.4m. In 2011 these tradeshows generated aggregate revenues of approximately £8.5m:

Centaur Media plc, has acquired Profile Group (UK) Limited a specialist digital information business for media, PR and marketing professionals, for a total cash consideration of £8m.

Media 10 have purchased a majority stake in IGME Ltd, the company behind the ground-breaking eco-car event, EcoVelocity

MadsackMedia will purchase 11.3 percent of the shares in the real estate portal Immonet from Axel Springer

Ringier Axel Springer Serbia agreed to acquire Mojauto.rs , the second most visited car market place in Serbia and real estate portal Nekretnine.rs also in Serbia

WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company, tenthavenue, in partnership with GroupM, has agreed to acquire Wisereach, a leading mobile marketing agency in China

WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company, tenthavenue, in partnership with GroupM, has agreed to acquire Wisereach, a leading mobile marketing agency in China

XM Asia, a division of WPP’s JWT, has entered into an agreement to acquire a stake in Magnivate, a leading digital agency in Indonesia

XM Asia, a division of WPP’s JWT, has entered into an agreement to acquire a stake in Magnivate, a leading digital agency in Indonesia

Argus today announced the acquisition of Fundalytics, a specialist European natural gas fundamentals data service