MediaDeals Week
Centaur sells travel exhibitions
The UK’s Centaur Media Plc has confirmed it is selling its Business Travel Show and The Meetings Show,…
Hearst eyes UK targets
Magazines. The £90m-revenue Hearst UK may be planning a “material acquisition in a complementary business” over the next…
National Enquirer to be sold (sort of)
Magazines. American Media Inc (AMI), of New York, will offload its tabloid weeklies including the racy The National Enquirer…
Bid for Irish Independent News
News. Independent News & Media (INM), Ireland’s largest newspaper group which publishes daily and Sunday papers such as the…
Gizmodo goes ‘cheap’ to private equity
B2C. Boston-based private equity firm Great Hill Partners is acquiring Gizmodo Media Group (owner of Jezebel, Deadspin and The…
DC Thomson buys events group
B2C. DC Thomson, the Scotland-based, family-owned media group, has acquired PSP Media, the organiser of the Scottish Golf Show…
PEI Media buys Argosy
B2B. PEI Media Group, the UK-based international publisher of B2B information for private equity, has acquired US-based Argosy Group…
UAE online property ‘merger’
B2C. Property Finder, the UAE-based real estate website has agreed to acquire its competitor JRD Group which owns Justproperty.com…
Jump! books acquisition
Books. US children’s publisher Jump! has acquired curriculum publisher Bearport Publishing. The brand will continue to publish early-reader non-fiction…
Metropolis buys Centaur finance B2B brands
B2B information. Metropolis Group, of the UK, has acquired the financial information division of Centaur Media for £5m in…