Press Release WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company Xaxis, the world’s largest global programmatic media and technology platform, has agreed to acquire, subject to regulatory approval, Triad Retail Media, a leading digital retail media specialist in the US
Press Release: Future plc (LSE: FUTR, “the Group”, “Future”), the international media group and leading digital business, has been informed that the CMA has no objection to Future completing the acquisition of Imagine Publishing Limited.
George Warman Publications (GWP), part of the Mark Allen Group, has acquired Dental Showcase from the British Dentist Industry Association (BDIA) for an undisclosed sum. The country’s leading dental trade exhibition, which has existed since the 1930s, will join a company that includes the leading brands Dental Update, The Dentist and Dental Nursing.
RAI Amsterdam has taken a 50% share in IBEX, the International Boatbuilders Exhibition and Conference. This renowned trade show for professionals in the yachting sector is the American version of the RAI’s own event METSTRADE (Marine Equipment Trade Show), which is held every year in Amsterdam. The deal was officially announced on 4 October 2016 at the opening of IBEX 2016 in Tampa, USA.
New York-based ad targeting tech specialist AppNexus has closed a $31m investment round, including $10m from Rupert Murdoch’s media group News Corp, which will now have access to AppNexus’ full suite of technology products.The firm’s software helps publishers maximize yield; and marketers and agencies harness data and machine learning to deliver intelligent and customized campaigns
Media company might be interested in acquiring the money-losing news service, reports say
Press Release: Next 15, the digital communications group, is pleased to announce the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of PMC Investments Limited (“Pinnacle”), a specialist technical content and digital marketing business with customers in the electronics, telecoms and engineering sectors, including Toshiba Electronics, Sandvik Coromant and European Telecommunications Standards Institute
Singapore music start-up in tie-up with magazine’s publisher Wenner Media for global push
The sale of a controlling stake in Argus Media is set to close next week after a two-month delay caused in part by tax issues, including one related to the energy reporting company’s executive chairman. Adrian Binks, who is also its publisher, is credited with turning what was once a small London-based energy newsletter into an almost £1bn enterprise over the course of the past 30 years
Press Release: WPP announces that it is making an investment in Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes SAS (“LNEI”), the media group focused on investments in the French and international media sectors
Centaur Media Plc (LSE: CAU), the multi-platform business information, insight and events group, is pleased to announce that it has agreed to acquire the business and assets of Oystercatchers LLP (“Oystercatchers”). Oystercatchers will build on Centaur’s Econsultancy and other marketing assets to provide an international leading consultancy in the marketing sector
Media-Mergers’ Press Release 20 September 2016 In a deal brokered by Martin Wright of Media-Mergers (www.mediamergers.co.uk) The London Stationery Show, the UK’s most important trade exhibition for the paper and writing products industry, its consumer awareness campaign National Stationery Week, and Stationery Magazine have been acquired by Ocean Media Group, a leading provider of exhibitions, […]
Exponent Private Equity dashed to the finish line yesterday at it completed the acquisition of the leading horse and sports betting publication The Racing Post
Press release: London: Informa (LSE: INF.L), (“Informa”), the international Business Intelligence, Exhibitions, Events and Academic Publishing Group, has reached agreement with MidOcean Partners and Wasserstein & Co to acquire the entire issued and outstanding capital stock of Penton, the leading independent US-based Exhibitions and Professional Information Services group for £1,180m
Cosin & Associados Consultoria e Serviços de Informática – to give it its full title – was established in 2005 by brothers Arnaldo and Alessandro Cosin, who previously worked in major consulting companies Accenture, IBM and CapGemini. The firm’s services include business consulting, IT consulting and project management with a deep specialism in retail. Based in São Paulo, it now employs around 200 professionals
In line with its consistent endeavors toward transforming into a data-driven company, Time Inc. recently bought a customer survey provider, Bizrate Insights, which was previously owned by Connexity Inc. It also stated that Bizrate Insights’ survey platform will be combined with its affinity marketing subsidiary, Synapse Group, Inc.
Media agency WPP has invested in UK-based online medical education provider, The Corpus.The Corpus has developed a dedicated online platform to provide small-group interactive training sessions for healthcare practitioners delivered by clinicians
The long-prophesied wave of b2b media consolidation has not come crashing down quite yet, but the sector still saw its fair share of significant mergers and acquisitions over the first six months of 2016. The year began in the wake of Cision’s $841 million purchase of PR Newswire from UBM, which continues to reassert it’s “events-first” business strategy.
WPP said on Tuesday that Plista, a provider of data-driven native advertising and part of Xaxis – its global programmatic media company – has acquired Oslo-based real-time content analytics group Linkpulse. Linkpulse works with over 120 publishers in Europe, enabling them to track the performance of articles across devices via customised dashboards and alerts. WPP […]
Peter Dubens, the publicity-shy entrepreneur who floated Time Out magazine, has generated a €129m (£108m) windfall for his listed private equity firm Oakley Capital, after it sold an online dating website to a German broadcaster
