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Literati buys Follett Book Fairs
Literati, the Texas-based online book club and book subscription company, has acquired Follett Book Fairs which serve the primary schools market across the US. Follett Book Fairs started in…
Texas locals deal
121 Media, LLC has acquired 14 weekly newspaper brands (with a total audience of 750k – about one-third in print) in the Dallas, Texas suburbs from Star Media Local (owned by S.A.W.…
Who will buy Screen International?
It is seven years since the UK-based information and events group now known as Ascential Plc sold-off some of its best known magazine-centric B2B brands in order to concentrate (mostly) on the…
How I do it: Mark Allen
Mark Allen is founder-owner of the UK-based Mark Allen Group (MAG). The 37-year-old, £60m-revenue publishing and events company has made almost 30 acquisitions during the past 20 years at a…
Bauer quits US after 40 years
Forty years after it first launched magazines in New York, Bauer Media Group, of Germany, is exiting the US market. It is selling a business which in 2020 had revenue of $80m (15% down on the…
Arena buys Parade mag
Digital publisher Arena Group (formerly known as Maven), US owner of Sports Illustrated and The Street, is acquiring Athlon Media Group (AMG), publisher of Parade, the Sunday newspaper…
GovExec keeps buying
The frenetically acquisitive GovExec information company has announced its latest acquisition, this time of Forecast International, a subscription information company in global Defence and…
RB audio buys in Germany
US-based RB Media, a large audiobook producer, has acquired German audio publisher ABOD. ABOD was established in 2012 by its chief exec Rudi Singer and publishes non-fiction audiobooks…
RX acquires tech show
RX, the global exhibitions division of RELX, has acquired 3rd Street Group, a UK based events company whose principal property is the Big Data LDN show, staged annually in London for data and…
Zuddl expands virtual events
A San Francisco based virtual events startup, Zuddl, has raised $13.35m in its series A fundraise. The company has a staff of 75 and intends to develop a platform for virtual and hybrid events…
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