Douglas Emslie
Raccoon races to £30mn with Munich sports show deal
In 2018, Mike Seaman launched his Raccoon Media Group, in the UK, with The National Running Show. He…
28 October 2025
Is this the future for event startups?
It’s almost 20 years since Brit school leaver Toby Duckworth was selling ladders at London’s Ideal Home Show…
3 October 2025
Emslie racing ahead in trade shows
The onetime Arthur Andersen accountant Douglas (Doug) Emslie spent 25 years building Tarsus into a top 20 trade…
26 September 2025
Jacobs set for B2B take-off
Douglas Emslie, 25-year CEO and co-founder of the Tarsus trade show group, this week became deputy chair of…
1 November 2024
‘Trade show M&A boom is still coming…’
It's 15 months since Informa Plc acquired Tarsus, the UK-based, pe-owned trade show organiser, for $940mn - some…
28 June 2024
Emslie’s Raccoon sets the pace
The eight-year-old consumer 'active' exhibitions organiser Raccoon Media Group - best known for The Running Show in the…
8 February 2024
Tarsus bounces back
Tarsus Group, the UK-based trade show organiser last year bounced back to 75% of its pre-pandemic revenue despite…
12 January 2023
How I do it: Douglas Emslie, Tarsus
Douglas Emslie is CEO of the UK-based Tarsus Group, one of the world's top 20 trade show organisers…
16 December 2021