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CloserStill buys The eLearning Guild

Events. CloserStill Media, the London-based exhibition and conference organizer, has acquired a majority stake in Focuszone Media, Inc, operating as The eLearning Guild, for an undisclosed sum. The eLearning Guild has a 40,000+ membership community of learning and development professionals in the US and around the world. The Guild operates major conferences and exhibitions, including DevLearn (Las Vegas, Nevada), Learning Solutions (Orlando, Florida), and Realities360 (San Jose, California), conducts research, and has a number of digital publications and online events. The private equity-owned CloserStill has annual revenues of some £55m and said to have industry-best EBITDA margins of almost 50% and prodigious annual growth rates.

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