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How I do it: Mark Kelsey, RELX
Mark Kelsey is CEO of the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group (LNRS) of the £7bn-revenue RELX Plc. LNRS (not to be confused with RELX’s LexisNexis legal and professional information group)…
What next for UK local papers?
It’s been, to say the least, a bumpy decade for the UK’s regional newspapers. Back in 2011, more than 800 titles were reporting a total average ABC circulation of almost 20m. A decade later,…
Why Ascential breakup is inevitable
Ascential Plc, the UK-based information and events company, will be the perfect business school case study. Starting life as the B2B division of the legendary EMAP Plc, it has seemingly done…
Lloyd’s List sold. Informa does it again
Informa Plc, the UK listed information and events group, has sold 80% of its Lloyd’s List Intelligence to Montagu private equity for £308m. The deal values the £42m-revenue maritime…
Recurrent chases the ‘magazine multiplex’
In the days when print was everything to specialist audiences, publishers liked to describe their magazines as “narrow but deep”. Now, it’s all different. Digitalisation has…
How I do it: Kumaran Ramanathan, Foundry/ IDG
Kumaran Ramanathan (“Ram”) is president of Foundry (formerly IDG Communications) the media-data-events subsidiary of the US-based IDG Inc. He is a Brit who started his media career…
UK ‘quality’ dailies find their feet
In the week when the UK’s largest newspaper publisher Reach Plc was rocked by adverse trading conditions (which knocked 18% off its share price), it becomes clear that the fortunes of…
How Sandow’s $1.9bn re-defines media
For increasing numbers of newspaper and magazine publishers, affiliate e-commerce has become a high-value substitute for lost advertising revenue. But, ironically, B2B publishers – many…
What $500m Indy Dive means to Informa
Informa, the £8.4bn UK quoted data and events business, is acquiring the 10-year-old B2B newsletter specialist Industry Dive, of the US. The deal is worth $389m in cash but, with an earnout,…
How I do it: Mark Shashoua, Hyve Group
Mark Shashoua is CEO of Hyve Group Plc, the £200m listed, UK-based organiser of trade shows. He was one of the founding family of what was then called the ITE Group in 1991, and was a director…
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