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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…
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 told colleagues…
Oprah steps into the future
When Hearst announced last August that it was ceasing regular print publication of the once-newsstand bestriding O, The Oprah magazine, it felt like a death knell, not just for an industry…
The Week for sale
The Week, the 26-year-old weekly current affairs digest with editions in the UK and US, is being auctioned by Exponent private equity which acquired the brands as part of Dennis Publishing…
BuzzFeed raises $200m in bonds
The Information reports that BuzzFeed is in discussions to raise about $200million in convertible bonds to supplement cash it will raise by merging with a special purpose acquisition (SPAC)…
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