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Informa Confirms Tentative Bid From 3 PE Players; Values Company At $6.8 Billion - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 01 Jul 2008 06:55 PM PST

Informa, the UK-based B2B giant which recently broke merger talked with United Business Media (LSE: UBM), has confirmed that it received a tentative big approach from a private equity consortium…

Informa Gets $3.53 Billion Bid Interest From Providence, Carlyle - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 19 Jun 2008 09:23 AM PST

Informa, the UK-based B2B giant which just broke off its talks with UBM for a merger, now has another possible group of buyers: private equity groups Providence Equity Partners and…

Informa Ends Merger Talks With UBM; Gets Another Approach - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 17 Jun 2008 10:42 AM PST

The big B2B merger was not to be...United Business Media (LSE: UBM) and Informa have ended merger talks, the two companies notified today. They said the talks between them remained…

More Informa-UBM: Springer Owners Mull A Bid - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 Jun 2008 10:29 AM PST

More on the big B2B consolidation story which started last weekend: After the news came out that UBM and Informa were in early talks for a $6 billion merger, some…

B2B Consolidation: Informa and UBM In Early Merger Talks; Would Create $6 Billion Giant - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 08 Jun 2008 10:46 AM PST

United Business Media and Informa, two of the biggest B2B media companies, are in talks for a merger, the two companies said over the weekend after news of the talks…

Hearst Acquires UK-Based Map Of Medicine From Informa - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 02 Apr 2008 07:07 AM PST

Another deal in the hot health info space… Hearst has acquired Map of Medicine, a UK-based medical info service targeting doctors, from B2B media firm Informa. The web-accessible service, launched…

Reed Business Sale Process: Informa Not Interested In The Ad-Driven Business - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 27 Feb 2008 09:02 PM PST

One of the other possible major parties that could have been interested in buying Reed Business Information, the UK-based B2B trade media firm Informa, has come out and said it…

B2B Giant Informa Buying Research Firm Datamonitor For $994 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 May 2007 10:39 AM PST

The UK-based B2B media and info giant Informa keeps getting bigger through acquisitions: it has agreed to buy market-intelligence firm Datamonitor for 502 million GBP ($994.9 million) in cash, or…