Colin Morrison

After a year industry disappointment at the apparent failure of the world’s fourth largest trade show organiser Clarion Events to find a buyer, the sale of the 16-year-old, UK-based CloserStill Media...

Our Monetising B2B Information & Events 2026, at London's historic Stationers'Hall this week was a sellout, with more than 30 industry-leading speakers and 210 delegates from three continents. Fo...

CloserStill Media, of the UK, was acquired by funds of the private equity firms which also own Hyve Group. That deal and last week’s pe bid for both Emerald and Questex, in the US, had a total enterpr...

This interview by Simon Middelboe, Chair, LegalTechTalk, and Flume, is adapted from Monetising B2B Information & Events, in London this month. Sarah Cottle is EVP and General Manager of Dow J...

Axel Springer, the family-owned, transatlantic news group, has reported its financials for 2025, the first full year since the €13bn divestment of its classifieds group to KKR in 2024. Springer publis...

Fifty years after Rupert Murdoch acquired New York magazine in a fiercely contested deal - and exactly 35 years after he sold it - the 58-year-old magazine is again owned by a Murdoch. It was this wee...

Bookings open today for The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information & Events 2026 which takes place at Stationers’ Hall, London on Wednesday 18 November.

A year after aborting a sale process, the Graphite private equity owner of the 18-year-old UK-based pharma events and information provider Hanson Wade (HW) has succeeded in selling just part of the bu...

Hyve Group, the world's eighth largest exhibition organizer, is being acquired by Hellman & Friedman for $1.8bn (an estimated 16x EBITDA). What is - alongside the recent sale of CloserStill Media...

UK businesses have long been accustomed to the temptations and traps of transatlantic expansion. Over many decades, successful UK companies - including Tesco, Marks & Spencer and The Body Shop - h...