UBM-Informa talks collapse as the princes of private equity wave silly money under Mr Rigby’s nose
So Informa and United Business Media won’t be getting hitched after all. Talks collapsed last night after the market closed.…
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Why can’t Peter Rigby think of any positive arguments for a UBM-Informa merger?
From Andrew Davidson in the Sunday Times, an odd interview with an agitated-sounding Peter Rigby, chairman of Informa. Odd because.…
ByAnnals of spin: For you, Mr Rigby, the war is over. . .
Did Informa’s spinners come up with this? At the Telegraph, Damian Reece nails the weak-brained chat suggesting that David Levin,…
ByUBM & Informa: B2B consolidation just got interesting
How many ways can you skin a cat? Johnston Press solved its debt problems by asking investors for cash and…
ByThe PPA’s ample-bottomed B2B propagandists would go down a storm in Burma
Pop this in your RSS feed and smoke it: Private Frazer’s Doomed Magazines looks like a freshly-minted second cousin to…
By‘Mixed’ performance for CMP Information titles
B2B publisher United Business Media said this week that trading was slightly ahead of its expectations. In a trading update,…
ByIf RBI doesn’t sell, we’re not in Kansas anymore
Bernard Gray, the former FT hack and former boss of CMP, caused a bit of a ruckus at the PPA…
ByUnited Business Media looks to grow events division
United Business Media, home to Publican and Music Week publisher CMPi, is looking to buy more conference businesses in the…
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