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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…
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.…
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,…
Another Murdoch takes New York
Fifty years after Rupert Murdoch acquired New York magazine in a fiercely contested deal – and exactly 35 years after he sold it – the 58-year-old magazine is again owned by a Murdoch. It was…
What’s left for Business Insider?
Axel Springer, the family-owned, transatlantic news group, has reported its financials for 2025, the first full year since the €13bn divestment of its classifieds group to KKR in 2024.…
Are PRAs threatened by AI?
This interview by Simon Middelboe, Chair, LegalTechTalk, and Flume, is adapted from Monetising B2B Information & Events, in London this month. Sarah Cottle is EVP and General Manager of Dow…
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