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Trade shows splutter into life
The recovery of the trade show market continues. But diverse factors including restrictions on travel, transport and public…
24 September 2021
Immediate faces the teen test
Immediate Media next month celebrates its 10th anniversary. On October 31, 2011, Exponent private equity acquired BBC magazines…
24 September 2021
30 big years of The Big Issue
Inspired by Street News (a New York newspaper sold by homeless people for some 20 years from 1989),…
23 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
Netflix buys Roald Dahl work
Netflix has acquired the works of Roald Dahl from the author’s family. The deal is thought to be…
23 September 2021
Vivendi ‘to buy’ Lagardère
French media company Vivendi may win control of Lagardère which owns book publisher Hachette Livre, to sit alongside…
23 September 2021
Canal+ adds SPI TV
Canal+, the French TV company owned by Vivendi, is to acquire 70% of SPI International, an international TV…
23 September 2021
DAZN bids for BT Sport
DAZN, a London-based sports streaming company, is hoping to complete a deal for the purchase of British Telecom’s…
23 September 2021
Indy Dive buys PharmaVoice
Acquisitive B2B information company Industry Dive has bought the assets of PharmaLinx, bringing with them the PharmaVoice brand…
23 September 2021
Sony acquires Zee in India
Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) intends to take control of Zee Entertainment in a deal to combine their…
23 September 2021