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Informa keeps up the pace
Informa Plc, the UK listed group, which is the world’s largest B2B events organizer, yesterday announced its 2025 financial results, marking the fifth consecutive year of double-digit adjusted…
Monetising B2B: 2 days left for discount rates
This is the Agenda for the Flashes & Flames Monetising B2B Information & Events, in London on 13 May. Engage with 30 CEOs and industry leaders from 28 companies participating in 13…
ICYMI: How vulnerable is GlobalData?
From April 2025: There’s nothing like the word ‘data’ for exciting investors. It triggers thoughts of exclusive content, the very antidote to AI’s commoditization of…
Charlie Kerr searches for his next prize
Five months after his $1.8bn sale of With Intelligence data and events business to S&P Global, the former Charlie Kerr (Lord Teviot to give him his full, inherited title) could be forgiven…
PODCAST: What AI means to events
We’re some way off sending our robot counterparts to events for us. That may mean that, as a sector, live B2B events and exhibitions are facing less of an existential threat from AI than other…
Flashes & Flames is honoured
Flashes & Flames was this week awarded a Warrant for the second consecutive year by the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (“Stationers’ Company”), in…
Axel Springer trumps Daily Mail to buy Telegraph Media
Axel Springer, the Berlin-based transatlantic family-owned news group, has reached a surprise agreement with RedBird IMI to acquire the Telegraph Media Group (TMG) for £575 million in cash.…
New-style investors target science
The US-based Life Science Connect (LSC) was last year acquired by private equity from its longterm family owners (whose main business is making shotgun cartridges) for an enterprise value…
UK news tabloids chase subs
Piers North, the one-year CEO of Reach Plc, the UK’s largest newspaper publisher, could be forgiven for feeling a bit disappointed by the listed company investors who greeted his 2025 results…
DealMakers: US keeps up the pace on events M&A
Another intriguing array of six acquisitions this month with a continuing US focus. US leading the way again We have become used to Associations selling their events to for-profit…
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