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WoodMac buys battery data
Wood Mackenzie, the Edinburgh, UK-based subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, of the US, specialising in data for energy, metals and mining, has acquired Roskill, a privately-owned, London-based…
Euclid buys LEO Weekly
Cleveland, Ohio-based Euclid Media Group has bought the Louisville-based LEO Weekly, an alternative weekly news title which was founded in 1990. The new owners aim to maintain the…
GovExec buys more data
GovExec, the US government information company which recently acquired Power Almanac, has made two further acquisitions to extend its move into public sector data and intelligence. One is…
US catering body buys media
The US trade body the National Restaurant Association has taken a majority share in Winsight Holdings, a media company serving the sector with news, research and events. Terms not disclosed.…
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 mark…
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 – about 1.5 x…
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…
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