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• Informa shares rise 13% after Pounds 2bn approach from private

  - 2008-07-03

  Shares in Informa jumped 13 per cent to 427.5p yesterday after the business-to-business publishing and conference group confirmed it had received a 2.15bn approach from a private equity consortium. Providence Equity Partners, Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman initiated discussions on 26 June and talks are continuing with...

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• Cash approach for Informa as merger talks end with UBM

  - 2008-06-18

  United Business Media UBM announced the breakdown of merger talks with Informa last night, as Informa put out a statement confirming an approach from a third party offering cash. Sources close to UBM say negotiations on the all-share deal that would have created a global group worth 3.1bn...

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• THE MAN WHO WOULD BE THE CONFERENCE KING

  - 2008-06-10

  UBM's merger talks with Informa may yet smoke other bidders out, but the deal puts David Levin in sight of realising his ambitions for the firm. By Sarah Arnott Business Analysis David Levin, the chief executive of United Business Media UBM, is negotiating by far...

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• Media Industry Leaders Join Balihoo Advisory Council to Benefit Media Buying and Selling Community

  - 2008-04-30

  Balihoo, a media buying and planning platform, creates advisory councils designed to identify and drive strategic business objectives and guide product development initiatives BOISE, Idaho -- Balihoo, the only on-demand media buying and planning platform that provides intelligent software-PLUS-services to media professionals across all mediums, today announced its Senior...

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• Banks and their capital needs - first they pay it out, now they want

  - 2008-04-29

  OUTLOOK When HBOS was subjected to a bear raid a month or so back of the type which had already sunk Bear Stearns, the situation was thought potentially so dangerous that the Bank of England, no less, had to be dragooned into the task of dismissing the whole...

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• New Report Offers a Comprehensive Guide to India's Telecom Operators.(Report)

  - 2008-03-10

  NEW YORK, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- - The World's Fastest Growing Telecom Market Is Examined in a New, Free Report from Light Reading With the country's 13 mobile operators signing up some 8 million new customers every month, India...

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• United Business Media delivers.

  - 2008-03-03

  A strategy focused on profitable growth delivers on its targets, and more of the same is expected in the current financial year. Amanda Vermeulen Value-adding acquisitions, earnings growth and capital returns to shareholders make for a heady combination, and United Business Media ...

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• UNITED BUSINESS MEDIA PLC - Dividend Declaration.

  - 2008-02-29

  United Business Media plc Proposed dividend Following the announcement of its financial results...

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• UNITED BUSINESS MEDIA PLC - Acquisition(s).

  - 2008-02-26

  United Business Media acquires AeroStrategy data business Commonwealth Business Media expands its aviation and aerospace market capabilities United Business Media plc today announces that it has acquired AeroStrategy's aviation data business on behalf of its Commonwealth Business Media division. ...

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• UNITED BUSINESS MEDIA PLC - Acquisition(s).

  - 2008-02-21

  United Business Media acquires Gartner Vision Events for $11.4m CMP Technology adds specialist events to its Channel events portfolio United Business Media plc today announces that it has acquired Vision Events on behalf of...

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