BizBash, the 19-year old B2B media company for events organizers, has been acquired by Connect Meetings for an undisclosed sum, both sides announced. A subsidiary of the UK-based, global tradeshow company Tarsus Group, Connect serves meeting planners—in particular, those who organize corporate, association, religious or sporting events—with upwards of 30 annual conferences, tradeshows and hosted buyer events around the U.S. as well as four twice-annual print magazines. In addition to its website and its own print magazine—which Connect says it will continue to publish—BizBash will add to the Connect portfolio three annual BizBash Live conferences in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C., which serve professionals across the broader events industry, while BizBash Live: Florida will be merged into the Connect Diversity Summit in Kissimmee, Fla. A fourth pop-up event, branded as BizBash National, will be colocated with the Connect Marketplace conference in New Orleans in August. BizBash founder and CEO David Adler is staying on after the acquisition, transitioning to chairman and maintaining a 20% stake in the combined entity, he told Folio: in an email. "Media and event properties are becoming platforms and being part of a larger platform will make the brand more successful," he said, referring to BizBash's community of events organizers, coupled with Connect's reach among meeting planners, as "the building blocks" of "a next-generation event and media company." Adler... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-12-17 20:01:44 UTC ]
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Connect Books achieved a strong Christmas trading period, with like-for-like sales up 15.1% across its wholesale business and online platform Wordery. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As Time Inc. continues to pivot from being seen as a print magazine publisher to a digital media player, the company has acquired programmatic ad-tech company Adelphic. Adelphic will join Viant, a marketing company that Time Inc. acquired a year ago that uses first-party data and programmatic... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The American data and market insights company NPD has acquired Nielsen's US book industry services. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Specs Who Co-founder, CEO Joe Speiser and president, COO Gretchen Tibbits What Branded content studio Where New York From tasty bacon hacks to soldiers' homecomings from overseas, publisher LittleThings has become a hub for useful and meaningful videos since 2014. After starting out as an... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2017-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Windmill Books has acquired a suspenseful Swedish debut, The Dying Game, by Asa Avdic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bertelsmann division Arvato has acquired India-based IT analytics start-up Ramyam to expand its footprint in India. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The acquisition of Enthrill technologies and its brands, brings an end to Enthrill's retail operations, but its technologies will continue to be used by Firebrand Technologies to distribute ebooks in the institutional and bulk sale market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Virago has acquired one of the first titles publishing under Oprah Winfrey’s new book imprint at Flatiron Books in the US: The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by New Yorker Maria Smilios. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury Press has acquired Catching a Serial Killer by former Detective Sergeant Stephen Fulcher - a true-crime memoir about the manhunt for murderer Christopher Halliwell. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rakuten Kobo will take over the German Tolino ebook platform from Deutsche Telekom at the end of this month, pending approval from the German competition authorities. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Meet the C-Suite,” where each week we will feature one of the city’s most high profile c-level executives. This week meet Derek Burns, founder and CEO of Atlanta-based Beer Book. Name: Derek Burns Company: Beer Book Title: Founder, CEO Headquarters:... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2016-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brit + Co and Mindbodygreen are seeing early success in using Facebook Live to drive people to pay for how-to courses. Brit + Co’s recent Facebook Live with a handlettering expert drove 180 pre-registrations for its class -- four times the usual average. Meanwhile, Mindbodygreen has been hosting... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Transworld has bought a new novel by Anna Hope inspired by American TV series "The Affair". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Following widespread outcry after the publisher announced it was ending its relationship with unions, fresh talks suggest a new agreement is in the offingIn what is being widely interpreted as a management climbdown, Penguin Random House, the world’s biggest publisher, has resumed talks with... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While many publishers are trying to forge direct connections with readers as a defense against Facebook, The Boston Globe is using the social giant itself to engage its readers. The Globe started a private Facebook group December 2 for subscribers to discuss the news. While other publishers are... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Livre has acquired a majority stake in a London-based mobile app company, Brainbow Ltd, the firm behind the brain-training app Peak. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chicago Review Press, Inc., the parent company of Chicago Review Press and Independent Publishers Group, is acquiring Parenting Press. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This Finnish book lover reads the Guardian in order to keep in touch with the UK after coming here on the Erasmus programmeI’m originally from Helsinki, Finland. I majored in English philology at the University of Helsinki, and began an ongoing relationship not only with my British boyfriend but... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent publisher Troika Books has bought a YA novel about Hitler’s attempted extermination of the Roma and Sinti people. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The second annual Global Kids Connect conference, held on December 8 in New York, brought together members of the book industryto discuss the future of global children’s publishing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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