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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…
The gold in universities data
Private equity-owned Times Higher Education (THE), of London, has acquired the Washington DC-based Inside Higher Education. The price was not disclosed but is believed to be the equivalent of…
Cosmo: too tired at 50?
Next week, the UK edition of Cosmopolitan magazine celebrates its 50th anniversary. In February 1972, the definitive young women’s glossy burst onto the newsstand all hair and cleavage and…
How I do it: David Montgomery, National World Plc
David Montgomery, who graduated in politics from Queen’s University in Northern Ireland, is one of the UK’s best-known newspaper executives. He was successively editor-in-chief of…
Will Food52 wake-up media?
Cookery has long been the profitable core of women’s media. In pre-digital times, it fuelled the expansion of women’s magazines into best-selling books, video and TV. But cookery…
Who will buy what in 2022?
Among the many economic predictions for 2022 is a growing consensus that investors will be much more focused on the fundamentals of media-tech i.e. they will be keener to buy profits than…
How I do it: Christian Van Thillo, DPG Media
Christian Van Thillo is executive chair of the Belgium-based, family-owned DPG Media (formerly known as De Persgroep). In 30 years, he has transformed a small regional magazine publisher into…
The Top 20 of 2021
It’s been a record-breaking year for Flashes & Flames (thank you). Here’s a selection of our 20 most popular stories of 2021, for your holiday reading. Once you have read my…
How I do it: Craig Fuller, FreightWaves
Craig Fuller is the founder and CEO of FreightWaves, the four-year-old digital service which Bloomberg itself once described as “the Bloomberg of freight”. It is the…
Vox in ‘cut price’ digital coup
Vox Media is acquiring Group Nine Media in a deal – expected to complete early in the new year – which will create one of the largest digital media companies. It will have expected…
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