Month: January 2015

TSNN
After several slow years during the recession, the mergers and acquisitions market for the exhibition and conference industries had an active year in 2014, according to JEGI’s Year-end M&A Overview.

Publishing Executive
Private Equity firms are now the dominant players in B2B publishing. They probably own less than half of all B2B media properties, but we’ve passed the tipping point.

Business Insider
Mergers and acquisitions in the technology sector have returned to pre-crash levels — and gone even higher — with average deal-size up a staggering 81% on 2013, according to data from JEGI.

MediaPost
The number of media-marketing-technology deals remained much the same in 2014 versus the year before, but total deal volume nearly doubled due to major transactions.

Trade Show Executive
Summit Professional Networks  was sold to ALM, a New York-based media firm that specializes in legal and insurance news.

Folio
Overall media M&A was up substantially in 2014, hitting pre-recession levels in both volume and value, according to a report from investment bank, JEGI. Aggregate deal value topped $128 billion last year, shooting up 92 percent over 2013, while with 1,481 deals, the number of acquisitions across the industry rose 6 percent.

SIIA Blog
The year 2015 is beginning the way that 2014 ended—with major M&A deals reshaping the landscape of the business media and information industry.