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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 event, the International Electronics Circuit Exhibition…
Netflix buys Roald Dahl work
Netflix has acquired the works of Roald Dahl from the author’s family. The deal is thought to be worth several hundred millions of dollars but precise terms have not been disclosed. Netflix…
Vivendi ‘to buy’ Lagardère
French media company Vivendi may win control of Lagardère which owns book publisher Hachette Livre, to sit alongside Editis which Vivendi also owns, subject to regulatory approval by French…
Canal+ adds SPI TV
Canal+, the French TV company owned by Vivendi, is to acquire 70% of SPI International, an international TV company with more than 30 channels around the world. The deal supports the…
DAZN bids for BT Sport
DAZN, a London-based sports streaming company, is hoping to complete a deal for the purchase of British Telecom’s BT Sport, although this has not yet been confirmed. DAZN was founded in 2015…
Indy Dive buys PharmaVoice
Acquisitive B2B information company Industry Dive has bought the assets of PharmaLinx, bringing with them the PharmaVoice brand which serves 60,000 professionals in the pharmaceutical…
Sony acquires Zee in India
Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI) intends to take control of Zee Entertainment in a deal to combine their digital assets, content and production in a listed company in India. Sony Pictures…
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