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Abu Dhabi new shows
The Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) has announced six new shows will launch there during 2022, in conjunction with a range of organisers. The Gulf International Flower and Garden…
Netflix into gaming
Netflix has entered the high-growth gaming market with the acquisition of an independent games developer, Night School Studios. The company was founded in 2014 with its best known gaming…
Transom buys WK legal
LA-based Transom Capital Group is to buy the US legal education business of Wolters Kluwer for a cash consideration of $88m. The sale covers both traditional textbook publishing and online…
Love, Dog launch
In New York, experienced magazine publisher Mark Drucker is launching a new title Love, Dog which will be an online monthly publication covering canine health and behaviour as well as fashions…
Meredith mags ‘to be sold’
Barry Diller’s InterActive Corp (IAC) is in advanced talks to acquire America’s largest magazine publisher Meredith Corp, owner of brands including People (America’s…
What Politico means to all media
Axel Springer announced last month that it would be paying "close to $1bn" (believed to be 5 x revenue and 15 x EBITDA) to acquire the 14-year-old US-based Politico (and its European JV) from…
Trade shows splutter into life
The recovery of the trade show market continues. But diverse factors including restrictions on travel, transport and public gathering, personal fears, and the economics of participating…
Immediate faces the teen test
Immediate Media next month celebrates its 10th anniversary. On October 31, 2011, Exponent private equity acquired BBC magazines for £121m and merged it with the specialist publishers Magicalia…
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), The Big Issue was launched in London in September 1991. It was initially funded by $50k from…
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…
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