Acquisition Resources

Emap Communications, the B2B division of UK media group Emap, announced today that it has acquired Trades Exhibitions Limited (TEL) for £19m. The acquisition includes £3m of cash from within the compa... [more]

Guardian Media Group has acquired the radio operations of Saga Group for undisclosed terms, including services in the West Midlands, East Midlands and Glasgow.... [more]

Newspaper group Trinity Mirror announced today that it will put its sports division including the Racing Post up for sale, as well as regional titles in the Midlands, London and the South East.... [more]

Future, the UK-listed publisher, could dispose of non-core assets according to recent reports. Businesses most likely to be sold include the group's French and Italian magazines. Chief executive Stevi... [more]

Reports that Newsquest Media Group is up for sale have today been refuted by US parent company Gannett Company Inc. ... [more]

UK media company EMap has denied that its Radio stations are to be reviewed, these include London dance station Kiss FM, Dublin station FM 104 and a number of other regional broadcasters. Emap's radio... [more]

Newsquest Media Group, the publishing company responsible for around 300 UK newspapers including the Scottish Herald and the Northern Echo, is tipped to be put up for sale for around £1.5bn.... [more]

United Business Media has acquired OAG Holdings, the provider of passenger and cargo flight information to the global aviation industry, for £2.5m.... [more]

Trinity Mirror could put some of its national or regional newspapers up for sale after a strategic review by NM Rothschild. ... [more]

MICE, the UK-listed marketing services group, has been tipped to make non-core disposals in the new year which could include Blackpool Zoo and some of its aquariums. The businesses would be estimated ... [more]

Unanimis, the UK online advertising group, has reportedly appointed corporate finance media specialists Long Acre Partners to advise on a potential sale. Any sale would be estimated to fetch around £2... [more]

Hitwise, the Australia-based website monitoring company, is reportedly up for sale with an asking price of around £180m.... [more]

First Artist Corporation has acquired Dewynters, the London-based entertainment industry marketing services agency, for up to £16m.... [more]

EMI, the global music group whose artists include Coldplay and Robbie Williams, is tipped for a sale after receiving a preliminary takeover approach from an un-named party.... [more]

Amadeus, the Spanish provider of IT solutions to the travel industry, is rumoured to be considering the sale of its online travel agency Opodo. Amadeus purchased Opodo in June 2004 for €62m but source... [more]

Incisive Media is to acquire MSM International, the publisher of financial services magazines, for £22m. MSM is a publisher of targeted weekly and monthly financial services magazines, including Prof... [more]

Ekay has acquired Wallace Barnaby & Associates, the Guernsey-based marketing and advertising agency, for £1.7m.... [more]

Dagsbrun, the Icelandic investment firm specialising in media, telecoms and entertainment companies, is to sell Wyndeham Press Group and its English parent company Daybreak Acquisitions.... [more]

German broadcaster RTL has been tipped to sell Five, its much-maligned UK terrestrial channel, should it succeed in acquiring ITV.... [more]

UK-listed marketing company Media Square is rumoured to be considering a sale of one of its larger UK businesses. The company, which has debts of £24m, is valued at £56m and recently disposed of Karen... [more]