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How I do it: Heather Farley, Access Intelligence
Heather Farley is CEO of Access Intelligence, the B2B media and events company (formerly known as Phillips Business Information) serving the marketing, media, eSports, PR, cable, healthcare…
4 August 2023
4 minute read
Table-top games are booming…
Tabletop gaming is booming. The world of dice, cards, miniature wargames and tile-based games, most often wrapped up in fantastical settings, has become both a mainstay of cultural…
3 August 2023
7 minute read
UK finance group 3x in three years
With Intelligence – the 25-year old financial information company formerly called Pageant Media – was last week acquired by Motive Partners which beat Cinven and Flexpoint Ford with a £410mn…
28 July 2023
5 minute read
How Blockworks rides the waves
In October, the founder and former CEO of FTX crypto exchange Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) goes on trial for what is said to be one of the biggest financial frauds in US history. The shockwaves…
28 July 2023
4 minute read
How I do it: Sean Cornwell, Immediate Media
Sean Cornwell is CEO of Immediate Media, the magazine-centric UK subsidiary of Burda. He was appointed in June, two years after joining with responsibility for its digital business.…
28 July 2023
6 minute read
How UK’s CityAM could make it
The UK-based, £1.4bn online health and beauty retailer THG (formerly The Hut Group) has acquired the 18-year-old, lossmaking free financial daily CityAm for a total consideration believed to…
27 July 2023
4 minute read
What can trade shows learn from IMEX?
It is 20 years since trade show market leader Reed Exhibitions was preparing to do battle with an erstwhile friend. Executives were spitting: "When we acquired EIBTM (the European Incentives,…
21 July 2023
4 minute read
Ascential in a spin
Nothing is yet clear but Ascential Plc, the UK-listed information, analytics, events and eCommerce optimisation company, may be forced to postpone its plans for a breakup as a result of…
21 July 2023
2 minute read
UK B2B veteran bounces back
Graham Sherren, the veteran British publisher who built the 42-year-old Centaur Media into a £140mn listed company in the heyday of B2B magazines, is back. He and Piers Diacre – former Centaur…
21 July 2023
3 minute read
How I do it: Nick Shelton, Broadsheet
Nick Shelton is owner-founder of the 13-year-old Broadsheet Media in Melbourne, Australia, which self-describes as “the authority on the cultural life of your city”. It’s a digital brand, with…
21 July 2023
8 minute read
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