Science and business publisher Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) has announced who will lead the company following CEO Sir Crispin Davis' planned retirement. Ian Smith starts as CEO-designate on January 1 until Davis finally leaves in March after nine years in charge. Smith comes with chief executive pedigree - he was [...]
Thanks to everyone who's been a part of our October events this past week. In case you missed it—or if you want to refresh your memory—our full coverage is on our conference channels: Future of Business Media; EconSports and EconWomen. Some highlights: -- @ FOBM: Bloomberg's Norman Pearlstine: Acquisitions Won't [...]
Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) is unlikely to sell its Reed Business Information (RBI) as a whole entity and must cut its asking price, the former US CEO of the UK-based B2B publishing unit has warned. Jim Casella, who spent four years at RBI until 2005, told our Future Of Business [...]
When it comes to the shaky economy, the big question is how are deals getting done? A panel at FOBM offered some optimism, saying that companies with cash are looking for well-priced deals, and that old media companies will be looking to Silicon Valley for their next stage of evolution, [...]
We noted earlier today that the Reed Business Information auction is being sweetened again, with parent Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) planning to to offer a bigger vendor loan to finance the struggling sell-off. Now we have learned that there are three parties left in the auction, and interestingly, one group [...]
Times may be hard for the media biz right now, but this year marked the highest level of foreign investment in the UK tech, media and telecoms industries since the dotcom boom, according to a new report. Law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer calculates that, between January and August this year, [...]
Bidders for Reed Business Information are now considering offers below £1bn – against an initial £1.25bn – amid trading deterioration at the media publisher as the economy weakens[...]
She might run the biggest magazine company in the world in a time of falling advertising revenue and dwindling sales, but Time Inc's (NYSE:TWX) CEO and Chairman Anne Moore doesn't sound too concerned. She tells The Times of a two-year strategy to get her company, owner of consumer UK magazine [...]
Back in May, a site called Mygazines was launched, offering a peer-to-peer model for readers to share their magazine subs with each other. The basic idea: subscribers could upload digitized versions of their magazines for others to peruse. No shock: The magazine publishers were in no mood to see their [...]
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October 2nd, 2008 |
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"A copyright lawsuit brought against a Web site launched earlier this year allowing users to share digital copies of hundreds of magazines has been settled. Lawyers representing a large swath of consumer and b-to-b publishers—including Time Inc., Hearst, Hachette, McGraw-Hill, American Media Inc., Reed Business Information, Bonnier, Ziff Davis and [...]
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September 30th, 2008 |
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Bidders in the auction of Reed Business Information are re-examining their calculations after discovering a shortfall in the staple financing they were offered by the publisher to complete the deal. (Thanks to FT.com)And the moral is, always check the stationery cupboard first.http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping[...]
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September 26th, 2008 |
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Bidders in the auction of Reed Business Information are re-examining their calculations after discovering a shortfall in the staple financing they were offered by the publisher to complete the deal[...]
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September 19th, 2008 |
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The leading bid for Lloyd's List B2B publisher and Datamonitor operator Informa has been scuppered by the state of the financial markets. Providence, bidding with Blackstone and Carlyle, offered 450p per share (£1.9 billion), but the trio said they were unable to get financing to fund a higher offer. Informa [...]
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September 12th, 2008 |
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Reed Business Information's second round auction may be running into trouble, as bidders are lowering their prices, reports Times UK. There are no bids close to its £1.25 billion ($2.5 billion) asking price and there is talk the unit may be worth as little as £800 million ($1.6 billion), the [...]
Some stories for this long holiday weekend in U.S.: -- Chinese Online Traffic Exceeds U.S. Web Sites During Olympics: So says WebTrends, citing its own analytics. To be expected, if only because of sheer numbers in China. CCTV.com, the site run by national broadcaster China Central TV, drew more than [...]
Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) expects the sale of its Reed Business Information trade magazine unit to complete as early as October. In a memo seen by Dow Jones, Marianne van Leeuwen, CEO of the Holland operation, says bids were made for RBI "since last week". "In the first three weeks [...]
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