Events
“UK trade show recovery”
Phillip Soar, chair of two UK-based trade show companies – CloserStill and Nineteen Events – wrote in Flashes…
7 October 2021
Abu Dhabi new shows
The Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) has announced six new shows will launch there during 2022, in…
30 September 2021
Tarsus keeps spending
Tarsus, the UK-based, private equity-owned trade show group, has acquired a majority share in the world’s leading printed circuit board event, the International Electronics Circuit…
23 September 2021
Roar buys UK waste events
Roar B2B, the UK trade show group (owned by Apiary private equity and led by former Reed, UBM…
2 September 2021
Informa buys Wizard World
The Fan Expo subsidiary of UK-based information and events group Informa Plc, has increased its share of the…
19 August 2021
Hopin ‘valued at $7 billion’
Hopin, the startup that powers online events, is in talks with investors to raise new funding at a…
5 August 2021
Cvent merges with Dragoneer
Cvent, the event management technology company, is merging with Dragoneer Growth Opportunities Corp, listed on Nasdaq in the…
29 July 2021
Tarsus buys medical tech
At a time when trade show companies everywhere are pondering diversification into digital media, Tarsus Group has acquired…
15 July 2021
US catering body buys media
The US trade body the National Restaurant Association has taken a majority share in Winsight Holdings, a media…
24 June 2021
Hopin buys Boomset data
Hopin, the UK-based digital event management company, has acquired events analytics company Boomset. Boomset, now with 40 staff,…
17 June 2021