MediaDeals Week
MidOcean buys Questex
New York City-based private equity firm MidOcean Partners is acquiring, from Shamrock Capital, Questex, the Massachusetts-based B2B exhibition organiser…
American Media acquires (most of) Bauer USA
David Pecker’s American Media Inc is buying Bauer’s US celebrity weeklies In Touch, Life & Style and Closer…
Time for a surprise bid?
Magazines. Meredith’s second round auction for the sale of Sports Illustrated, Time, Fortune and Money draws to a…
Clarion acquires ‘$300m’ Pennwell
Blackstone p.e.-owned, London-based Clarion (now responsible for 180 exhibitions and conferences in more than 50 countries) extends its…
Epiris private equity buys Time Inc UK mags for £107m
Magazine-media. Former IPC Media has 50 brands (many unprofitable), 30m reader-users but declining revenues of £240m. What brands…