Posts Tagged "Northstar Travel Group"

According to Colin Morrison’s Flashes&Flames It is believed the US-based Northstar Travel Group is poised to acquire three UK exhibitions – The Business Travel Show, Meetings Show, and Travel Technology Europe – from Centaur Media. The annual two-day events are one part of the Centaur portfolio put up for sale as it prepares to focus on its core XEIM marketing services group, which includes Marketing Week, eConsultancy, Festival of Marketing, and Oystercatchers

Event revenues surpass print revenues as Northstar takes on 10 hospitality events.

Secaucus, NJ-based Northstar Travel Group has acquired the assets of L.A.-based Schneider Publishing, including a trio of annual events and a pair of related media brands, the company announced today.

Northstar Travel Group has made its first purchase since being acquired by private equity firm Wasserstein Partners in June. The company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) subsidiary, Inntopia, has acquired Ryan Solutions, a provider of customer relationship management (CRM) and database marketing to the hospitality industry

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.

The media company moves from one PE firm—the Wicks Group—to another. Northstar’s management team stays in place

In one of the largest B2B media transactions this year, Northstar Travel Group, which provides a broad array of products in the retail and corporate events markets, was sold from one private-equity firm—the Wicks Group—to another, Wasserstein Partners, Northstar CEO Thomas Kemp said today.