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What will Reach buy?
News people are not entitled to glaze over at repetitious journalism. But executives at Reach Plc, the UK’s largest newspaper group, are bracing for an avalanche of film, TV and print to…
Responsible Investor sold
Response Global Media, the 14-year-old UK-based publisher of Responsible Investor, is being sold by its its founders for an estimated £12m (12 x EBITDA). While the deal has not been announced,…
Informa to sell data units and…
Informa Plc, the exhibitions and information company, is planning to sell-off its Asset Intelligence Group (AIG) of US and UK subscription businesses in construction and transportation. The…
Mark Allen keeps shining
The UK’s acquisitive B2B publisher Mark Allen Group (MAG) has bought 13 magazines and newsletters from RELX subsidiary Elsevier for a cash consideration believed to be some £1.5m –…
Trade shows? It’s complicated.
Nobody knows the answer to the question everyone in exhibitions is asking: what will the industry look like in, say, five years? But most agree on two things: The pandemic has disrupted trade…
McGraw-Hill sold for $4.5bn
McGraw-Hill, the international educational publisher based in New York, is to change private equity ownership as the result of a deal by Platinum Equity to buy the publisher from Apollo Global…
Skift buys hotels newsletter
Rafat Ali’s Skift, the online B2B news brand serving travel and tourism, has acquired the Daily Lodging Report (DLR) a paid-for US newsletter serving the hotel sector. DLR is…
Hopin buys Boomset data
Hopin, the UK-based digital event management company, has acquired events analytics company Boomset. Boomset, now with 40 staff, was founded by Kerem Baranand. Hopin, founded in 2019, has…
Farnborough buys auto event
Farnborough International, the home of UK business aviation events, is buying the automotive event Innovation and Technology in Transport (ITTHub) from Binswood Media. The next…
How UK Telegraph is winning
Seventeen years after they acquired the UK”s Telegraph Media Group (TMG) – and almost two years after persistent reports that it would soon be sold – the Barclay family have…
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