synopsis: Smart Business Network Inc., one of the nation's largest networks of local and custom B2B marketing channels, has announced its acquisition of Wise Group, a leading Northeast Ohio custom content firm, to expand its Smart Business Content Marketing Division.

synopsis: McMurry and TMG Custom Media, two industry-leading content marketing pioneers, have merged to create the nation's largest independent full-service content marketing agency. The Wicks Group of Companies has taken a majority ownership stake in the new company, which will be called McMurry/TMG, LLC.

synopsis: BBC Worldwide has agreed on a sale of its assets, covering 34 magazine titles, to Exponent. These include non-BBC branded magazines, magazines aligned to BBC shows, magazines aligned to "key brands," Dovetail and Frontline, which are respectively subscriptions fulfillment and distribution houses, and Origin, a specialist publisher.

synopsis: Courier Corporation, one of America’s leading book manufacturers and specialty publishers, announced that it has acquired Highcrest Media LLC, a provider of software and solutions that streamline the production of customized textbooks for use in colleges, universities and businesses.

synopsis: Questex Media Group, Inc. has acquired Imaging Network, a leading business-to-business multimedia marketing company serving the office products channel with the award-winning, Las Vegas-based ITEX tradeshow, imageSource, Office World News and Office Furniture & Design publications, e-newsletters, and Web sites and strong custom publishing unit.

synopsis: Media group Ten Alps Plc announces the purchase from Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC of the entire issued share capital of Atalink Limited. Ten Alps has paid #1.761m on completion. A further payment will be made, on a pound for pound basis, for the net current assets of the co. as at 30th March 2007, on agreement of the completion accounts.

synopsis: Hubert Burda Media has acquired the Colchester-based publishing house Essential Publishing. Essential is a leading independent publisher of consumer, business and contract titles. These include the top-selling women’s fortnightly, Real, and the 100,000+ selling Your Home. Contract publishing clients include Rolls-Royce Plc.

synopsis: Global professional services firm Aquent announces the acquisition of Sakson & Taylor, a leading content design and development firm. The acquisition creates the largest database of content design and development experts worldwide and gives Aquent even greater access to qualified talent and expertise to meet the needs of technology companies.

synopsis: January 2006: P&MM Group plc purchased Summersault Communications Limited, a publishing company specialising in newsletters and magazines for employees, business to business and customers.

synopsis: McMurry, Arizona’s largest marketing communications firm and one of the nation’s leading custom publishers, announced today that it has acquired Atlanta based custom publisher Media 3 Publications.

synopsis: Multimedia factual producer Ten Alps plc announces the formation of a majority-owned joint venture ("JV") company in Asia, and the acquisition by the JV of assets from Reed Business Information Asia.

synopsis: AAC Capital Partners has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Ocean Media Limited, the magazine publisher and exhibition organiser, from its current management team and institutional backers led by the Dublin based private equity firm, Ion Equity. Completion is subject to competition clearance.

synopsis: Advanstar Holdings Corp., the holding company for Advanstar Communications Inc., a leading worldwide media company providing integrated marketing solutions, has completed the Company’s acquisition by an investor group led by Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) for $1.142 billion in cash.

synopsis: Avista Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has agreed to acquire the 50% interest it does not already own in Thompson Publishing Group ("TPG") from MidOcean Partners, a private investment firm.

synopsis: Avista Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has acquired a 50% interest in Thompson Publishing Holding Co., Inc. from DLJ Growth Capital Partners, a Credit Suisse private equity fund, at an enterprise value of $130 million.

synopsis: Wasserstein & Co., LP, along with investment partners Highfields Capital Management and Lexington Partners, announced the completion of the purchase of PRIMEDIA's Business Information segment for $385 million in cash.

synopsis: Canadian private equity firm Onex Corp said it would buy market research company Nielsen Holdings NV's expositions business for $950 million in cash. Nielsen Expositions produces more than 65 business-to-business trade shows and conferences in the United States every year.

synopsis: Catalyst Investment Managers has acquired Reed Business Information Australia (RBIA) from parent company Reed Elsevier. RBIA, a local unit of the B2B publisher's Reed Business Information division, owns titles including Money Management, Australian Doctor and Pharmacy News, and online directories such as hotfrog.com.au.

synopsis: Matrix Private Equity Partners has invested in the £4 million management buy-out of Faversham House Group Limited. Faversham is a progressive multi-media business that publishes B2B magazines such as Utility Week, Europe’s largest environmental website www.edie.net and stages the UK’s No.1 environmental exhibition, SustainabilityLive!.

synopsis: Thompson Publishing Holding Co., a Washington D.C. based professional publisher and its six affiliates, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plan to enter into an agreement with stalking horse bidder PNC Bank. PNC has agreed to provide debtor in possession financing.

synopsis: Smart Business Network Inc., one of the nation's largest networks of local and custom B2B marketing channels, has announced its acquisition of Wise Group, a leading Northeast Ohio custom content firm, to expand its Smart Business Content Marketing Division.

synopsis: Smart Business Network, Inc. has acquired OnMark Solutions, Inc., a full-service e-marketing services company in Cleveland, deepening the expertise and capabilities offered to its wide range of clients. OnMark Solutions' client list includes a broad range of organizations, including Peeps Candy Co. and American Red Cross.

synopsis: Smart Business Network, Inc., one of the nation's largest networks of local and custom B2B marketing channels, announced its acquisition of Flique Creative, a full-service multimedia company, further expanding its Smart Business Digital Division. Projects completed by Flique include work for American Greetings and Lexus.

synopsis: Smart Business Network Inc., one of the nation's largest networks of local and custom B2B marketing channels, has announced its acquisition of Wise Group, a leading Northeast Ohio custom content firm, to expand its Smart Business Content Marketing Division.

synopsis: Prairie Capital has bought an 80% stake in M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC, a B2B publishing company it has backed as a mezzanine investor since 2005.

synopsis: ESI International, the world's leading project management training company, announced the acquisition of a comprehensive library of Agile project management/development content from Agile Transformation, Inc., Omaha, Nebraska.

synopsis: Retail Systems Alert Group, a Proximus B2B company, and Helmers Publishing, Inc., announce the acquisition-sale of Helmers Publishing's Supply Chain group. The group includes: Supply Chain Manufacturing & Logistics, a monthly publication; SCML's website, www.scml-mag.com; Chief Supply Chain Officer, a bi-monthly publication

synopsis: Pareto Corporation, a leading shopper marketing company, announced that it has acquired The Promotional Specialists, an innovative international award winning supplier of promotional and incentive merchandise based in Canada. TPS will continue to be managed by founders Aaron Moscoe and Andrew Rotenberg, who have committed to remain with Pareto.

synopsis: Reed Business Information, a leading B2B publisher in the U.S. and part of Reed Elsevier, will acquire BuyerZone.com, Inc., an online lead generation business. The closing is expected to occur on or about January 1, 2007, after the requisite regulatory approval is obtained.

synopsis: The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation announced that it has acquired the outstanding shares of Avox Limited, a reference data business located in the U.K.

synopsis: The publisher of Seattle Business, Seattle Magazine, Northwest Meetings and Events, Seattle Bride and Urban Pages will merge the assets of Washington CEO, owned by Sabey Corporation, into its Seattle Business operations and begin producing the titles under the Tiger Oak Publications banner.

synopsis: PreVisor, a leader in pre-employment assessments and selection solutions that connect hiring decisions to business results, acquired talent assessments specialists CraftSystems, Inc. was founded 29 years ago by Dr. Larry L. Craft. CraftSystems has built a strong reputation for the technical and predictive strength of their assessments.

synopsis: LRP Publications, Inc. acquired HRO World Conference & Exposition ("HRO World") and HRO World Europe Conference & Exposition ("HRO Europe") from Outsourcing Today LLC and Unicomm LLC.

synopsis: First Advantage Corporation, a global risk mitigation and business solutions provider, today announced that it has acquired Inquest, Inc., a regional employment screening company based in Los Gatos, Calif., near San Jose.

synopsis: ProQuest Information and Learning announced the sale of its directories program, published by Toronto-based Micromedia ProQuest, to Grey House Publishing of Millerton, New York.

synopsis: United Business Media today announced that its CMP Media subsidiary has acquired the US based Incoming Calls Management Institute ("ICMI") for $3.75m. In 2004 ICMI generated revenue of $4.1m and EBITDA of $0.6m.

synopsis: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced that it has acquired Inscape Holdings Inc., a leading provider of DiSC®-based assessments and training products that develop critical interpersonal business skills. With a global network of nearly 1,700 independent distributors, Inscape’s solution-focused products are used in thousands of organizations.

synopsis: Riverside Company’s sale of Inscape Publishing to Sentinel Capital Partners provides Riverside with its sixth realization of 2007. Inscape is the leading developer and provider of content-rich, technology-enabled corporate training solutions that develop interpersonal skills such as sales, leadership, teamwork, communications and time management.

synopsis: ValuSource, LLC, the leader in business valuation software, has acquired KeyValueData, an online provider of privately-held business data and industry research. The combined companies will be headquartered in Colorado Springs.

synopsis: United Business Media plc announces that its CMP Technology division has acquired Customer Contact Center Standard for a total cash consideration of $350,000.

synopsis: CareerBuilder has acquired Vietnam Online Network (VON). The deal includes just two of VON’s four main sites, HRVietnam andKiemViec, which are the principal real estates that CareerBuilder is after. VON was founded in 2007 and is the second in terms of revenue generation in the job recruitment market in the country.

synopsis: Beyond.com Inc., The Career Network, announced the acquisition of strategic assets of Human Capital Solutions, LLC (d/b/a JobCircle.com), through its subsidiary Career Management Solutions, LLC. JobCircle.com is a leading online job portal for employers and job seekers in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.

synopsis: Booker T. Equity Limited Liability Company has purchased LifeWin, Inc., Get Motivated Seminars and related entities. Get Motivated Seminars, Inc. organizes business, motivational, and educational seminars.

synopsis: Sunshine Holdings Corporation today announced the merger of its Sunshine Custom Publishing, Inc. division with True North Custom Publishing LLC of Chattanooga, TN. This transaction will unite two fast-growth organizations, expanding the combined company’s presence as America’s largest custom health care publishing company.