synopsis: GCP Capital Partners has acquired World Trade Group, an international provider of business-to-business events, training and online lead generation services, in a management buy-out.

synopsis: Tarsus Group plc, the international business-to-business media group with interests in exhibitions, conferences, publishing and online media, announced the acquisition of 50 per cent of the share capital of Hubei Hope Exhibition Company Limited.

synopsis: Canon Communications, the leading publisher, trade show producer, and digital media company for the world's $3 trillion advanced, technology-based manufacturing industry, has acquired two leading trade shows in Germany, INTERPART and SURFACTS, as part of its expansion in the European market.

synopsis: Reed Exhibitions is pleased to announce the acquisition of FireTech Reno. Reed Exhibitions expects to merge Firetech Reno into the FireRescue Magazine Conference & Expo, which it produces with Jems Communications, to create the Fall’s largest and most comprehensive fire-rescue event in the western United States.

synopsis: ALM, a leading media company serving legal and business professionals, has acquired the assets of the Strategic Research Institute®, a privately held conference and seminar producer headquartered in New York City.

synopsis: Wachovia Capital Partners, the private equity and mezzanine investing practice of Wachovia Corporation, today announced that it has acquired the George E. Fern Company, and separately, has completed an equity investment in Champion Exposition Services, Inc. The terms of the transactions were not announced.

synopsis: Wachovia Capital Partners, the private equity and mezzanine investing practice of Wachovia Corporation, today announced that it has acquired the George E. Fern Company, and separately, has completed an equity investment in Champion Exposition Services, Inc. The terms of the transactions were not announced.

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: 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: 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: 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: United Business Media Limited announces that it has acquired Publishing Expo, a tradeshow serving the UK publishing industry. UBM is acquiring the event on behalf of UBM Live from Legend Exhibitions Ltd for a total cash consideration of £320,000.

synopsis: Information and media company Access Intelligence, LLC, announced this week the acquisition of the world-leading daratechPLANT Conference from Daratech, Inc., strengthening its presence in the energy and IT markets.

synopsis: Cleveland, Ohio-based b-to-b publisher Pfingsten Publishing bought the assets of International Investment Conferences, Inc., a trade show producer serving the $390 billion global mining industry. A source familiar with the deal put IIC’s revenues in the $9 million range.

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: 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: PennWell Corporation, a diversified global media and information company, announced that it has acquired the assets of The LED Show, a conference and exhibition serving the lighting design and technology segment of the LED industry. The LED Show is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada.

synopsis: Torrance, California-based Bobit Business Media has acquired the Vehicle Service Contract Administrators Conference from Warranty Risk Services.

synopsis: PennWell Corporation, a diversified global media and information company, announced today that it has acquired CMM International, the leading trade show for the converting and package printing industry in North America.

synopsis: GCP Capital Partners has acquired World Trade Group, an international provider of business-to-business events, training and online lead generation services, in a management buy-out.

synopsis: UBM plc announced that it has sold its UK agriculture and medical general practitioner portfolios, including the Farmers Guardian and Pulse titles. The new business will be known as Briefing Media Group and is funded by GCP Capital Partners, a mid-market private equity fund.

synopsis: GCP Capital Partners has acquired World Trade Group, an international provider of business-to-business events, training and online lead generation services, in a management buy-out.

synopsis: Advent International, one of the world's leading global private equity firms, today signed an agreement with Lloyds TSB plc to acquire its subsidiary Lloyds TSB Registrars for a total consideration of £550 million ($1.1 billion), subject to completion and other adjustments.

synopsis: TradeMaven LLC and eLocal today jointly announced they have merged the two firms to form TradeMaven Group LLC (TMG). The merger is one of the most significant in the online trading industry, combining TradeMaven's leading technology for online trading with eLocal's exceptional retail and institutional execution and brokerage services.

synopsis: TeleCheck Services, Inc., a subsidiary of First Data Corp., today announced that it has acquired substantially all the assets of ClearCheck, Inc., a full-service provider of return check management systems for major retailers and supermarkets across the United States. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

synopsis: International Monetary Systems, Ltd., a worldwide leader in business-to-business barter services, today announced that it has purchased the assets and client base of Kansas Trade Exchange (KTE), located in Wichita, KS. The transaction will become effective on September 30, 2007.

synopsis: The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. announces that it has acquired 9,790,280 shares in London Stock Exchange plc for a price of 1,218 pence per share. The consideration represents approximately GBP 119.2 million (c. US$ 219.4 million).

synopsis: The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. announced that it will complete its acquisition of Brut LLC, the owner and operator of the Brut ECN, from SunGard Data Systems Inc. SDS for a total consideration of $190 million in cash.