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Informa’s 6 steps to transformation (so far)
Informa Plc has made a recommended £1.2bn cash offer (568p per share) for Ascential Plc, the UK-based organiser of Cannes Lions and Money 20/20. The price is 17x EBITDA and 6x revenue for…
26 July 2024
8 minute read
Her Campus sold for…
Her Campus Media (HCM), the 15-year-old, Boston, US-based network for college women, has sold what is believed to be a majority stake to SFM, the George Soros family office investor. The…
25 July 2024
4 minute read
How Informa is quietly betting on boats
There’s nothing like the corporate PR process for putting an acquisition into perspective. The 41-year-old Boat International magazine itself this month announced it had “become…
19 July 2024
6 minute read
What next for Red Ventures?
In September, the US-based Red Ventures (RV) celebrates its 25th anniversary. For Ricardo (Ric) Elias, the CEO-founder of the company that owns and operates major lead gen-funded digital…
19 July 2024
7 minute read
How Tortoise is getting up to speed
Tortoise Media, the five-year-old, UK-based slow news startup founded by ex-BBC News boss James Harding, former US diplomat Matthew Barzun and Katie Vanneck-Smith (now Hearst UK CEO) reported…
18 July 2024
4 minute read
Will Fastmarkets get its dream PRA deal?
AI is accelerating the commoditisation of so much news and information and nobody needs reminding of the soaring value of subscription-funded data services. But the “must have”…
12 July 2024
7 minute read
After Mail exit, who will get the Telegraph?
In a move which underlines the bizarre nature of the outgoing UK government’s rushed legislation to restrict foreign equity investment in news brands, the Daily Mail Group (DMGT) has…
11 July 2024
2 minute read
Floundering CNN ‘goes digital’
Same as the old boss? In a memo to staff on Wednesday, CNN chairman Mark Thompson announced a series of major changes at the cable news network, including the layoffs of 100 employees, a…
11 July 2024
2 minute read
How I do it: Simon Barr, Fieldsports Press
Simon Barr is CEO and co-founder of Fieldsports Press, the UK publisher which launched exactly six years ago with the £150k acquisition of Fieldsports Journal and Scottish Sporting Gazette.…
11 July 2024
6 minute read
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