Sherwin Publications has announced that, as of 28 February 2018, it now has full ownership of the TCS&D exhibition. Since 2011, the exhibition has been run in partnership with Informa Exhibitions. It is a bi-annual show which helps companies promote its products and services to the perishable product supply chain.
Telegraph Events has sold the London Bike and Triathlon Show to Frazer Clifford’s Newtimber Media. No terms were revealed. Clifford will be a familiar face to many visitors to the exhibition having worked as the sales director on the event for the past nine years. He told CI.N that long-term colleague Matt Letch will also join Newtimber Media in an enhanced business development role.
Plans to focus on its festivals and digital businesses could lead to a £300 million sale of Ascential’s exhibitions division. The specialist information group previously known as Emap announced the launch of a strategic review of its exhibitions business yesterday.
Hearst UK has agreed a deal with Telegraph Events to acquire fitness and wellbeing festival for women Be:FIT; luxury watch fair Salon QP; and luxury watch magazine QP. The deal is part of Hearst UK’s strategic commitment to grow and diversify revenues
Messe Frankfurt New Era Business Media Ltd has acquired Thailand Lighting Fair and Thailand Building Fair to expand the worldwide portfolio of its Light + Building brand of trade fairs.
Press release: The Bauer Media Group has acquired the UK’s biggest fishing show, The Big One . The Big One is held annually each spring in Farnborough, and attracts almost 20,000 enthusiastic anglers who attend the most important event on the angling calendar.
SME London, the events company behind London Fashion Week Festival, has bought the rights to the Clothes Show brand from Haymarket Media Group
Press release: Diversified Communications today announced they have acquired Tent Exhibitions Ltd., a UK company that owns London Design Fair and co-located events: Tent London and Super Brands London
Preyss Release: London based Clarion Events, one of the world’s leading independent events organisers, has completed a merger with Global Sources, a leading Asian exhibitions and online B2B marketplace operator based in Hong Kong. Funds managed by Blackstone will control the combined group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed
Press release:Terrapinn [www.terrapinn.com], the global events company, announced today that it has acquired Science Media Partners (SMP) [www.sciencemediapartners.com], an international events and publishing company based in the UK and focused on next-generation government, citizen and consumer-based identity solutions.
Press release: dmg events Middle East, Asia & Africa, a leading international events company, has acquired boutique business forum organizer Atticus Events. Focused specifically on the interior design of luxury hotels, HI Design organises specialist business meetings between key buyers from currently active hotel projects and a curated selection of International FF&E suppliers. With each edition held in a different five star hotel location, HI Design events are currently run annually in Europe, Asia and MEA.
Effective 23 January 2018, the Belgian division of the multinational group Easyfairs – specialised in organising events and managing exhibition halls and congress centres – is taking over the event activities of the non-profit association Textirama.
Press release: The Boards of Informa PLC (“Informa”) and UBM plc (“UBM”) today announced the key financial terms of a proposed combination (the “Proposed Combination”) of Informa with UBM to create a leading B2B Information Services Group (the “Combined Group”).
Nearly a decade after a merger attempt collapsed, the trade show organisers Informa and UBM are again in talks about a combination, investors were told this evening
Prysm Group has announced the acquisition of waste management trade show RWM from Ascential to boost its environmental division. RWM, in partnership with recycling, energy, water and waste management show CIWM, will complement existing Prysm events including The European Contamination Expo Series, Hazardous Waste Expo, Land Remediation Expo, The Flood Expo and The Marine & Coastal Civil Engineering Expo
Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India Pvt Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of the Group, has announced the acquisition of Fitex India, the largest fitness and health event on the subcontinent
Bubble Communications, the global PR, marketing and events agency, has acquired VOX National Events, the organiser and producer of the VOX Summit, VOX Awards and VOXMAS festive party
CloserStill Media, the London-based exhibition and conference organiser, has announced the acquisition of one of Europe’s leading education and learning conference and exhibitions – Online Educa Berlin (OEB) – from ICWE GMbH for an undisclosed sum
Press release: Leading international events company dmg events Middle East, Asia & Africa has acquired boutique business forum organiser Atticus Events. Focused specifically on the interior design of luxury hotels, HI Design organises specialist business meetings between key buyers from currently active hotel projects and a curated selection of International FF&E (Furniture, fixtures and equipment) suppliers. With each edition held in a different five star hotel location, HI Design events are currently run annually in Europe, Asia and MEA.
Press release: Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd, Greater China’s headquarters of the global leading trade fair organiser Messe Frankfurt GmbH has acquired a major proportion of Beijing Traders-Link Plus International Exhibition Co Ltd, organiser of the Automotive Maintenance & Repair Expo (AMR) in Beijing
