How I do it: Mark Kelsey, RELX
Mark Kelsey is CEO of the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group (LNRS) of the £7bn-revenue RELX Plc. LNRS (not…
How Axios matched 5x revenue price
Flashback: Axios, the five-year-old all-digital US news brand which trademarked its “smart brevity” style of punchy, bullet point…
SoPa buys TMG e-commerce
The Vietnam-based e-commerce firm Society Pass Inc (SoPa), has acquired the $5.8m-revenue Thoughtful Media Group (TMG), a social commerce-focused, premium…
Why Ascential breakup is inevitable
Ascential Plc, the UK-based information and events company, will be the perfect business school case study. Starting life…
Lloyd’s List sold. Informa does it again
Informa Plc, the UK listed information and events group, has sold 80% of its Lloyd's List Intelligence to…
Greek bid for Vice Media?
The US-based Vice Media is reportedly set to be acquired by Antenna Group, of Greece. In 2017, Vice…
Simon & Schuster deal in court
It was in November 2020 that Bertlesmann’s Penguin Random House announced its bid to acquire Simon & Schuster.…
UK coffee Festival sold
The UK-based William Reed Business Media, has acquired The London Coffee Festival from the 24-year-old, privately-owned Allegra Group.…
Recurrent chases the ‘magazine multiplex’
In the days when print was everything to specialist audiences, publishers liked to describe their magazines as "narrow…
How I do it: Kumaran Ramanathan, Foundry/ IDG
Kumaran Ramanathan ("Ram") is president of Foundry (formerly IDG Communications) the media-data-events subsidiary of the US-based IDG Inc.…