Anthem Publishing, the UK-based publisher of Vegan Food & Living, Simply Vegan, Women’s Running, and Classic Pop magazines, has acquired Planet Mindful, from TI Media. Terms have not been disclosed. The 17-year-old Anthem was founded and is owned by Jon Bickley and Simon Lewis, former executives of Future Plc. In 2018, Anthem sold its music-making…
Informa buys into Open Access
The Taylor & Francis STM division of Informa plc, of the UK, is buying the seven-year-old F1000 Research Ltd, of London, for an undisclosed sum “in order to develop its capabilities in the field of open access publishing”. F1000 is an Open Research publishing platform for scientists, scholars and clinicians “offering rapid publication of articles…
Wainscot buys health mags
The 12-year-old, privately-owned Wainscot Media, of New Jersey, US, has acquired the B2B healthcare magazines Imaging Technology News and Diagnostic & Interventional Cardiology from Scranton Gillette Communications, of Illinois. The acquired titles were founded in 1961. Wainscot’s B2B and B2C portfolio includes healthy living, luxury, regional and fashion titles. Wainscot Media
D&B buys Orb data
Dun & Bradstreet has acquired Orb Intelligence which provides B2B marketing records on 57m companies across 120 countries. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Dun & Bradstreet
Pageant ready for take-off
Pageant Media, the UK-based, privately-owned financial news, data and events company, is expected to be acquired by private equity for some £120m in the next few months. The company, which claims more than 2,500 institutional clients including 94 of the world’s 100 largest asset managers, is 56% owned by CEO Charlie Kerr who co-founded Pageant…
Terrapinn buys Highways UK
Terrapinn, the London-based events company, has acquired the privately-owned Essential Infrastructure Events, operator of Highways UK. The annual show was launched in 2015 and claimed to have attracted 6k visitors and 170 exhibitors to the NEC in November. The attendance was claimed to be 40% up on 2018. Terrapinn’s complementary global portfolio includes: Roads and…
Unruly sold for cut-price
The £200m, Israel-based video adtech company Tremor is acquiring the video advertising platform Unruly from News Corp in an equity/deferred revenue deal which values the company at about 15% of the £58m upfront cash paid by News Corp in 2015. It is unknown how much News Corp may have paid subsequently to the former Unruly…
IAC sells college brands
CH Media’s creative officer, Sam Reich, is to buy out the US-based business from its parent, Barry Diller’s InterActive Corp (IAC). CH operates the digitals CollegeHumor, Dorkly, Drawfee and DROPOUT. CollegeHumor was founded in 1999. Reich joined in 2006 when it was acquired by IAC. The site now has 15m monthly uniques but has struggled…
MCC buys Vancouver weekly
The listed Media Central Corporation, of Canada, has acquired the privately-owned The Georgia Straight, a popular weekly newspaper covering the Vancouver area, which has been established for over 50 years. MCC is paying C$1.25m for the paper which has a readership of 2.7m in print and 1.8m in digital. Media Central Corp
Mango buys Yellow Pear…
Florida-based book publisher Mango Publishing has bought Yellow Pear Press, of California, including its offshoot Bonhomie Press. Yellow Pear was founded in 2015 and specialises in local and lifestyle titles. Mango already publishes across a range of sectors including feminism, health, self help and LGBTQ issues, as well as fiction and youth titles. Terms were…
