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Informa this week announced the majority acquisition of its German/Swiss domestic conference business Euroforum by leading German media group, Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt GmbH.

Informa has acquired Dove Medical Press to strengthening its capability and presence in the OA (open access) publishing market. Terms were not disclosed

London: Informa (LSE: INF.L), the International Exhibitions, Events, Business Intelligence and Academic Publishing Group, today announces the majority acquisition of its German/Swiss domestic conference business Euroforum by leading German media group, Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt GmbH. The transaction continues the strategy of portfolio focus within the Knowledge & Networking Division, following on from a number of other portfolio changes over recent years in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Portugal, South Africa and Brazil. It leaves the Division focused on specialist communities in its core end markets of Global Finance, Life Sciences and TMT.

Informa Exhibitions forms a joint venture company with the organizer of the Inter Health Expo in Guangzhou on 16 May 2017. Inter Health is an international annual B2B trade show launched 14 years ago on nutrition and health food products, held at the Guangzhou Import and Export Fair Complex. Being the first of its kind in introducing ‘big health’ concept onto a trade show platform in China, Inter Health Expo is the largest health food exhibition in China

Informa has launched a review of five of its conference businesses on the back of a 4.1% organic revenue decline. The company said the revenue dip followed restructuring in its conference businesses in Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Russia.

According to Liberium Informa (INF) could be hit by some of the same problems facing US educational publishers such as Pearson. Analyst Ian Whittaker reiterated his ‘hold’ recommendation and target price of 715p on the stock, which added 6.75p to close 1% up at 680p on Monday following full-year results.

Informa to pay £106m for Yachting Promotions Inc., further strengthening Global Exhibitions Division and increasing US market presence

Press Release: The directors of Electric Word plc (the “Board”) are pleased to announce the sale of the trade and certain assets of the Company’s subsidiary, Speechmark Publishing Limited (“Speechmark”), to Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

The likes of UBM and Relx are thriving after swapping print for events and digital services

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

London-based research and events firm Informa has acquired telecommunications industry publisher Light Reading, along with research-oriented counterpart Heavy Reading, from CEO and founder Steve Saunders. Saunders will continue at Informa for a minimum of three years, under the title of digital publisher-in-chief

In 1995, Forbes, the business magazine, made a prediction: Elsevier, the largest publisher of scientific journals, would be “the internet’s first victim”

Informa’s Global Exhibitions Division has expanded its Life Sciences portfolio with the acquisition of FIME Exhibition & Congress in Miami, Florida. Now in its 25th year, FIME serves the communities of North and South America with a primary focus on medical technology, medical products and supplies, medical services, and medical equipment

Early gains from an ambitious growth programme sent shares up 6 per cent in Informa (INF). The business information, publishing and events giant plans to invest up to £90m to streamline, stengthen and refocus its divisions. £12m has been spent or committed to date, helping deliver a 14 per cent rise in first-half adjusted operating profit to £190m.

Progressive chairman Mike Danson gets opportunity to reacquire some of his former Datamonitor assets

In a press release Informa today announced an update on its Portfolio Management programme as part of the 2014-2017 Growth Acceleration Plan including disposals to Progressive Digital Media

Even as events become more central revenue pillars for a lot of B2B brands, few publishers are reorganizing their media products around them. Informa is taking a big step in that direction though, merging Food Product Design into Natural Products Insider in an attempt to put forward a more unified voice to its audience, and one more closely aligned with its main trade show, SupplySide West

Electric Word plc are pleased to announce the disposal of the trade and certain assets of the Company’s subsidiary, Radcliffe Publishing Limited (“Radcliffe Publishing”) to Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group and a subsidiary of Informa plc

U.K.-based information and events company Informa has been making an aggressive push into the U.S. trade show market.

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