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Country Life: thriving at 125
Media business thrives on the new. Much is made of the exciting, the up and coming, the disruptive and the revolutionary. But one glance at the UK newsstand tells you that the old still has…
Can Gannett make it work?
Last week wasn’t a great one for US newspaper behemoth Gannett. The Wall Street Journal revealed that, for nine months, the company had been giving advertisers inaccurate data about which of…
$15bn bid for Nielsen
A private equity consortium including Elliott Management and Brookfield Asset Management is closing in on a deal worth $15bn to buy Neilsen, the TV ratings service. The deal depends on banks’…
Hyve buys Fintech Meetup
Hyve Group Plc, the listed UK-based exhibitions group, is buying Fintech Meetup in a deal worth £3.8m and a potential earnout of £38m in years two and three. The shows were launched by Anil D.…
Apollo bids for Pearson
Shares in the listed UK education publisher Pearson rose after it disclosed that it had rejected cash takeover offers from the US private equity firm Apollo Global. The latest offer stood at…
Perlego raises $50m for US
Perlego, the London-based online academic book subscription service, has raised $50m in a series B funding round which was led by Media Ventures, a VC subsidiary of pan-European news group…
Raccoon Events into US
Raccoon Events, a UK based consumer show organiser, is expanding in the US via a JV with Snowsports Industries America to develop the Snowbound Expo. The show will take place in Boston in…
Indy Dive trebles in 3 years
This is the age of the email newsletter. Industry Dive, of the US, will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2022 with a 29% increase in revenue to £110m and profit of more than $30m. A B2B…
Flashes & Flames-PA alliance
We’re in the news. Flashes & Flames has formed a strategic alliance with PA Media, the UK and Ireland’s national news agency, under which we will collaborate on subscriptions…
How I do it: Thomas Leysen, Mediahuis
Thomas Leysen is chairman and controlling shareholder of Mediahuis, the Antwerp-based news and media group formed in 2013 from the merger of two family-owned Belgian companies Corelio and…
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