synopsis: London-based event management company Ex Events Ltd has acquired corporate events company The Finishing Touch for £101,000. The last filed accounts for The Finishing Touch show a pre-tax loss of £215k on a turnover of £3m for the 15 months to 30 November 2009.

synopsis: WRG Creative Communication has acquired Hong Kong-based Serious Events, the event management business of Serious Staging, to gain a foothold in China. Serious Events is a live event management and technical staging business that has produced effective business conferences as well as high profile retail brand events across Asia.

synopsis: Destination King has merged with Quiddity Entertainment of Chattanooga, Tenn., and the subsequent formation of LEO – an events management group. Quiddity Entertainment LLC is an event management company that offers conception, creation, and execution of special events.

synopsis: MCI announces the acquisition of DNA Events, expanding its service offering in The Netherlands. DNA Events will become part of MCI Amsterdam. DNA Events has expertise in creative special events such as product launches, corporate meetings and sales challenges with a focus on corporate clients.

synopsis: Travel and event agency The Appointment Group has acquired Twickenham-based event consultancy The Ultimate Event Company.

synopsis: The Board of Chime Communications PLC announces that it has entered into an agreement with the shareholders of Maidstone Road Holdings Limited, the parent company of the Icon group of companies to acquire the entire issued share capital of Maidstone.

synopsis: Corporate Magic CEO Jim Kirk has reached an agreement to re-acquire the agency he founded from Gaylord Entertainment. The agency produces creative and entertainment events and develops business content for corporate audiences. Kirk re-purchased the 50% stake from Gaylord, giving him 100 percent control over the company.

synopsis: Ruder Finn, a leading communications, counseling and services agency, has announced the acquisition of China event management, brand and marketing consultancy, Thunder Communications. Thunder Communications is one of the longest-standing PR practitioners in Shanghai.

synopsis: GL events has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the acquisition of Alice Events, a leader in its sector in France. Alice comes to events of major accounts for the organization of corporate events, consumer transactions and business tourism.

synopsis: DoMark International acquired Executive Sports Tickets and Entertainment, Inc. in December 2008. Executive Sports, Tickets and Entertainment Inc., handles event planning for corporate and personal sporting events.

synopsis: Colloquium, a major actor in congress organization in Europe and French leader for over50 years, has strengthened its position by purchasing ICEO, a professional Brussels-based congress organizer that has enjoyed strong growth since it was created 10 yearsago.

synopsis: Gainesville, FL-based Naylor LLC has acquired Fairfax, VA-based Convention Management Group (CMG) Inc. Both Naylor and CMG primarily serve trade and professional associations. The deal will add turn-key event management capabilities to Naylor's other print and online services.

synopsis: TBA Global Events, a leader in corporate events and lifestyle marketing has announced the acquisition of all the assets of the strategic event agency Production Group International (PGI). Effective Monday, July 25, 2005, TBA Global Events will assume the operation of all the Washington, DC-based PGI.

synopsis: Conference and exhibition organizer ITE Group has announced that it acquired a 75 percent stake in Trade-Link Exhibition Group, a Malaysian-registered company. Trade Link runs a number of events that take place together annually at Kuala Lumpur's Putra World Trade Centre.

synopsis: Deutsche Messe has acquired a majority share in Mannheim-based trade fair organizer Spring Messe Management (Spring). The company spring Messe Management was founded in Mannheim in 1998 and has a staff of around 50.

synopsis: Jaarbeurs (Holding) BV has reached an agreement in principle with The Nielsen Company to acquire Nielsen’s 50% of the shares in VNU Exhibitions Europe. In doing so, Jaarbeurs will become the full owner of the company, which organizes 60 national and international fairs annually.

synopsis: Publicis Groupe announces the acquisition of a majority stake in eventive Holding, the No. 1 event group in Austria and a key player in Germany and Switzerland.

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: Britain's T&F Informa is to buy conference organiser IIR Holdings for $1.4 billion in cash, the publishing and exhibitions firm said on Wednesday, boosting its presence in the lucrative North American market. IIR is a privately-held firm which arranges over 1,400 conferences worldwide every year.

synopsis: Fiera Milano SpA announces that it has signed a preliminary contract for the acquisition of 60% of the Turkish trade fair operator, Interteks Uluslararasi Fuarcilik A.S., the local market leader, which has a diversified portfolio of exhibitions in the beauty and personal care, home and garden, hospitality, sailing and logistics sectors.

synopsis: London-based event management company Ex Events Ltd has acquired corporate events company The Finishing Touch for £101,000. The last filed accounts for The Finishing Touch show a pre-tax loss of £215k on a turnover of £3m for the 15 months to 30 November 2009.

synopsis: London-based event management company Ex Events Ltd has acquired corporate events company The Finishing Touch for £101,000. The last filed accounts for The Finishing Touch show a pre-tax loss of £215k on a turnover of £3m for the 15 months to 30 November 2009.

synopsis: Ellis Salsby Ltd has acquired fellow conference and event management company Right Location Corporate Services in order to “provide a stronger venue finding and conference management offer" to its clients. Right Location is one of Hampshire's largest independent corporate event management agencies with an extensive client portfolio.

synopsis: Nice Entertainment Group, a pan-Nordic content production group, has signed an agreement to acquire Norwegian event management company Playroom AS. Founded in 2001, Playroom is an entertainment house focused on experience-based communication through event management, artist management and record production.

synopsis: Maritz Travel, a global leader in providing full-service meeting, event and incentive travel programs to corporate clients, announced it has acquired Experient, another top provider of meeting and event services to associations, tradeshows, corporations and the US government.

synopsis: Ouest Audiovisuel acquired RIV Turquoise , an event and seminar organizer in France.

synopsis: easyFairs, Europe's leading organiser of time & cost-effective trade shows, has acquired the Belgian business-to-business exhibition organiser, Fairtec. The move brings together an impressive portfolio of industrial technology shows in sectors such as measurement and control instrumentation, pumps and valves, subcontracting, safety and security.

synopsis: The Amergence Group, a company that focuses on the development, nurturing, and rapid expansion of selected emerging or disruptive companies across a wide range of industries and disciplines, announced its first "spin-out" subsidiary, PanPacific International, has signed a binding letter of intent to acquire Queen Entertainment Group.

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: The Learning Annex, LLC, the leading provider of adult, self-improvement education in the United States, and Apax Partners, L.P., one of the world's leading private equity investment groups, today announced that funds advised by Apax Partners acquired a significant minority interest in The Learning Annex.

synopsis: “We are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with Discovery Marketing Associates to acquire the following Discovery Traveling Shows: the 12 National Market Weeks, the West Coast Business Gift & Promotional Products Showcase, four Client-Distributor Shows and the Discovery name,” said Matthew Cohn, ASI Show President.

synopsis: Viad Corp completed the acquisition of The Becker Group, Ltd., on January 4, 2008 for $24.3 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to be accretive to Viad’s 2008 income.

synopsis: AD-EX International, a premier global provider of comprehensive exhibition and event marketing products and services, today announced it has acquired Marathon Exhibits, a market-leading developer of innovative exhibit environments that enhance client brands. Marathon Exhibits, will now be known as AD-EX International-West.

synopsis: Hansen Gray & Company, Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of NAPP Tour, Inc., a development stage event management and marketing company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

synopsis: Rockville, Maryland-based b-to-b media company Access Intelligence has purchased four of Penton Media's marketing brands. Included in the deal are Chief Marketer, Multichannel Merchant, Direct and PROMO and their associated events and digital components.

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: Sandow, a cutting-edge publishing company announces the acquisition of Events International, a global marketing firm renowned for reaching exclusive audiences through fully integrated luxury event solutions.

synopsis: Fuld & Company, a pioneer in the field of competitive intelligence, announces the acquisition by the Phinma Group. Fuld & Company delivers customized, proprietary research, analysis and consulting designed to help clients understand the competition, seize market opportunities, anticipate and thwart competitive challenges, and drive growth.

synopsis: New Marketing Labs, LLC, creators and producers of the New Marketing Summit, announced the acquisition of the Inbound Marketing Summit conference. The combination of these two market-leading programs will bring the best in thought leadership together for three events throughout the US.

synopsis: dmg world media announced that it has acquired the Bathrooms & Kitchens portfolio of Quantum Business Media Ltd. Four products comprise this portfolio: the Bathrooms & Kitchens Expo; Bathrooms & Kitchens Magazine; Bathrooms & Kitchens Directory (annual); and Bathrooms & Kitchens Industry Awards.

synopsis: dmg world media announced today that it has acquired the AD:TECH trade exhibitions from JD Events. Focusing exclusively on interactive marketing, this series of annual conferences and exhibitions includes events held in San Francisco, Chicago and New York as well as new shows to be launched in London and Shanghai in 2005.

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.