synopsis: UBM plc announces it has acquired Negocios nos Trilhos, South America’s leading railway industry exhibition, from Grupo Revista Ferroviária on behalf of UBM Live. Negocios nos Trilhos – literally, ‘Business on Rails” – is a cargo and public rail transport tradeshow which is held annually in Sao Paulo.

synopsis: Hearst Business Media, a unit of Hearst Corporation, today announced the acquisition of FleetCross, a leading provider of custom databases, software and network solutions to the transportation and equipment industry.

synopsis: United Business Media plc announced that it has acquired Commonwealth Business Media, Inc. for a cash consideration of $152m. The acquisition of Commonwealth provides UBM with a strong position in a new vertical, the international trade and transportation business intelligence market.

synopsis: Commonwealth Business Media, Inc. announced today the acquisition of BACK Aviation Solutions (BACK), a leading provider of aviation and air transportation information. BACK's comprehensive product portfolio includes information services, strategic and technical consulting, custom research and forecasting and asset management services.

synopsis: UBM plc announces it has acquired Negocios nos Trilhos, South America’s leading railway industry exhibition, from Grupo Revista Ferroviária on behalf of UBM Live. Negocios nos Trilhos – literally, ‘Business on Rails” – is a cargo and public rail transport tradeshow which is held annually in Sao Paulo.

synopsis: UBM plc announces it has acquired Negocios nos Trilhos, South America’s leading railway industry exhibition, from Grupo Revista Ferroviária on behalf of UBM Live. Negocios nos Trilhos – literally, ‘Business on Rails” – is a cargo and public rail transport tradeshow which is held annually in Sao Paulo.

synopsis: UBM plc announces that it has acquired a 70% equity stake in the Catersource catering conference and exhibition and its sister show Event Solutions, which serves the event planning industry. UBM has acquired the majority stake from Catersource’s private owners on behalf of UBM Live.

synopsis: Author Solutions, Inc. today announced it closed the previously announced acquisition of iUniverse, a leading self-publishing company. iUniverse will join AuthorHouse as one of the brands of Author Solutions, the world’s leading self-publishing company. Author Solutions is a Bertram Capital-owned holding company.

synopsis: United Business Media plc announced today that CMPi, UBM's UK and European professional media business, has sold two non-core publications, Printing World and Packaging Magazine, to Haymarket Publishing Group for GBP2.1m.

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: SNL Financial, the leading sector-focused provider of essential business intelligence to investment banks, money managers and corporations, today announced the acquisition of leading media research and analysis firm, Kagan Research.

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: 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: 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: NewBay Media LLC announced that it has acquired Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News, and This Week in Consumer Electronics (TWICE) from Reed Business Information-US. Each title will continue to be published as part of NewBay’s line of print, online, and in-person products and services.

synopsis: Arlington Capital Partners a Washington, DC-based private equity firm, announced the acquisition of Virgo Holdings, in partnership with the company’s existing management team. Virgo is a leading integrated business to business information services company delivering trade shows and conferences, print and electronic media, education and training.

synopsis: The boards of Eden Bidco Limited and Emap plc are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Emap. Eden Bidco is a newly incorporated company formed by funds advised by Apax Partners and Guardian Media Group plc.

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: Publicaciones Profesionales management has acquired the company from VNU Business Media Europe. Publicaciones Profesionales publishes magazines including computer information, electronics, finance, management, media and career development titles.

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.