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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: United Business Media Limited has announces that it has sold its French medical newspaper and magazine business to a management buyout team led by Gérard Kouchner, the business’s Chief Executive since 2005. UBM has sold the business on behalf of its UBM Medica division.

synopsis: Electric Word PLC, a specialist information publisher, will acquire Radcliffe Publishing Ltd. Radcliffe is a U.K.-based specialist publisher founded in 1987, focused on professional development and compliance in primary healthcare.

synopsis: EQT, a leading European private equity fund, and GIC Special Investments, the private equity arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (“GIC”), have Acquired 82% and 18% respectively of Springer Science+Business Media, the world’s second-largest scientific, technical and medical publisher.

synopsis: Berkery Noyes announced today that the firm represented BG Media Investors on the sale of its portfolio company HMP Communications to Paul Mackler, Ken Fisher, and Alta Communications. Terms of the transaction, were not disclosed.

synopsis: Thompson Publishing Group, a leading provider of subscription based information services, has acquired American Health Consultants, a leading provider of healthcare information products, from The Thomson Corporation . The acquisition was completed on August 31, 2006.

synopsis: UBM's healthcare division, CMPMedica, has acquired Mediworld Publications, an Indian medical publisher for $844,500. This acquisition further strengthens CMPMedica's position in India as a leading healthcare media business and establishes it as the foremost provider of Drug Information Systems.

synopsis: Elsevier, a leading global healthcare and scientific publisher, announced today that it has bought MediMedia's professional medical publishing businesses ("MediMedia MAP").

synopsis: SAGE, a world-leading independent academic and professional publisher, announced a landmark agreement with the Royal Society of Medicine to acquire its journal program. With immediate effect, 28 titles formerly published by the Royal Society of Medicine Press will be published by SAGE.

synopsis: Quadrant HealthCom Inc. has completed acquisition of the International Medical News Group (IMNG) from Elsevier, Inc. QHI + IMNG form one of the industry’s largest and most diversified medical communication companies, ranking number one in ad volume and serving physician and healthcare professional audiences.

synopsis: Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has acquired The Ocular Surface, a peer-reviewed journal focusing on the external eye and vision. As per January 2012 Elsevier will continue the publication of the quarterly journal.

synopsis: Cengage Learning announced that it has completed the acquisition of Nelson Thornes’ Nursing & Allied Health list. Cengage Learning is already known as an innovative force in health care education in the US. The Nursing & Allied Health list acquired from Nelson Thornes strengthens the healthcare portfolio by increasing the range of titles.

synopsis: Schofield Healthcare Media Ltd (SHML), a division of Schofield Media Europe Ltd, announced on the 16th January that it has acquired Medical Education Partnership Ltd (MEP). The company portfolio includes a number of key educational resources for health care professionals in print, online and in person.

synopsis: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Porter and Associates Publishing including the best-selling nursing pocket guides and Porter’s EMS Protocols.

synopsis: M|C Communications, the leading provider of continuing medical education under the Pri-Med brand, has acquired Physician's Weekly, a multi-media company providing news and educational materials to both physicians and patients, the companies announced jointly today.

synopsis: Francisco Partners, a leading technology-focused private equity firm, announced that it has completed a strategic investment in Therapeutic Research Center, a leading provider of drug therapy recommendations, continuing education, training, and data to the healthcare community.

synopsis: Vertical Health, a leading health information company, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Practical Pain Management, the most prominent pain journal for the practicing pain physician. Practical Pain Management journal contains tutorial articles designed to help diagnose and treat various aspects of pain.

synopsis: Lebhar-Friedman, Inc. announces the sale of Dowden Professional Publications, the Dowden medical journals publishing division, to Quadrant HealthCom Inc. Included in the sale are OBG Management, Current Psychiatry, Journal of Family Practice and Mayo Clinical Proceedings.

synopsis: Ascend Media Holdings announced the sale of its Allied Healthcare Group to Anthem Media Group. Allied Healthcare serves ten healthcare markets with eleven magazines, ten websites and ten weekly digital newsletters.

synopsis: Scranton Gillette Communications, located in Arlington Heights, IL, has agreed to acquire the assets Imaging Technology News and Diagnostic & Invasive Cardiology from Reilly Communications Group.

synopsis: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, LLC, announced today the acquisition of Compact Clinicals, a leading medical publisher of psychiatric and mental health educational materials and assessment scales. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.