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How UK news is winning in the US
UK businesses have long been accustomed to the temptations and traps of transatlantic expansion. Over many decades, successful UK companies – including Tesco, Marks & Spencer and The Body Shop…
How (and why) Foster launched Arc
Arc Media Holdings is the six-year-old, UK-based, pe-owned B2B company founded by trade show veteran Simon Foster (ex UBM and Comexposium). It currently organises more than 150 events annually…
PODCAST: What The Conversation UK has learned from a decade of audio
Ten years ago, The Conversation UK launched its first podcast to help bring academics’ research to a wider audience. Now, the publisher is a multi-award-winning podcasting powerhouse. Head of…
The Trade Show Big Bang. What’s next?
Hyve Group, the world's eighth largest exhibition organizer, is being acquired by Hellman & Friedman for $1.8bn (an estimated 16x EBITDA) in what is believed to have been a pre-emptive bid…
Has UK gone soft on Google?
The UK’s Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has unveiled what it terms "world first" measures, purportedly granting publishers new-found agency over the utilisation of their content within…
How FT Live completes ‘virtuous circle’ for news, data and events
At our recent Monetising B2B Information & Events 2026, Colin Morrison interviewed Orson Francescone, managing director of FT Live and formerly an events executive at Euromoney and Haymarket.…
DealMakers: pe turns up the heat on events
It has been an unprecedented month in events M&A with record investments and 13 transactions, a new Private Equity player, and including three new geographic plays. As reported in Flashes &…
How Hanson Wade paid off after all
A year after aborting a sale process, the Graphite private equity owner of the 18-year-old UK-based pharma events and information provider Hanson Wade (HW) has succeeded in selling just part…
IMEX: ‘a licence to experiment’
The week after our Monetising B2B Information & Events, in London this month, the family-owned IMEX exhibitions celebrated its 25th anniversary. The Frankfurt show had record meeting volumes,…
Book now: The Definitive AI Forum 2026
Bookings open today for The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information & Events 2026 which takes place at Stationers’ Hall, London on Wednesday 18 November. The Flashes & Flames event will…
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