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How Axel Springer changed everything in 10 years
All media. The Berlin-based Axel Springer is selling its 51% share in the @Leisure Group, of Amsterdam, a…
Mark Allen buys ‘The Engineer’ in UK
B2B. As predicted by Flashes & Flames, the UK’s acquisitive privately-owned Mark Allen Group (MAG) is buying Centaur Media’s…
Alma buys Finnish B2B auto platform
B2B. Alma Media, of Finland, has acquired tukkuautot.fi, a three-year-old marketplace for automotive industry professionals, for an undisclosed…
Penguin Random House buy in Spain
Books. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, the global Spanish-language division of Penguin Random House (PRH) is acquiring the…
Sinclair buys Disney sports channels for $10.6bn
Sound & Vision. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc, of Maryland, US, is paying $10.6bn to buy the 21 Regional…
Wiley buys higher ed tech
B2B. Following last week’s merger announcement of McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage, another higher education publisher is making a…
Wolters Kluwer in the spotlight
B2B. The Netherlands-based €4.3bn-revenue Wolters Kluwer has sold its 40% of the Austrian information specialist MANZ’sche Verlags- und…
What next for David Pecker?
American Media Inc (AMI) has sold the 93-year-old sensationalist US tabloid the National Enquirer, along with the National…
Classy problems at The Economist
The Economist this week appointed Lara Boro, CEO of Informa Intelligence and former boss of Middle East Economic…
UK events group tidies up
Britain’s acquisitive Mark Allen Group (MAG) is buying 12 predominantly international, controlled circulation (free) magazines from the 28-year-old UKi…