synopsis: The management team at consumer insight agency the Future Foundation has completed a buy-out of the firm from parent company Experian.

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: GF Capital Private Equity Fund, L.P. closed its investment in Trade Service Company, LLC, a leading database provider of robust product and pricing solutions to 18,000 subscribers, primarily in the electrical, plumbing/HVAC, automotive and office product markets.

synopsis: Avenue A | Razorfish, the largest interactive marketing services firm in the U.S. and an operating unit of aQuantive, Inc. announced the acquisition of e-Crusade, a creative agency for digital marketing based in Hong Kong and Shanghai. e-Crusade will retain its brand identity and existing leadership team and will operate as a subsidiary.

synopsis: In the UK, Fairfax will sell IDG its UK publishing assets, including MIS UK and the Market Base database.

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: Experian®, the global information solutions group, has acquired the Future Foundation Group, a leading London-based consumer think-tank and strategic consultancy.

synopsis: Video Monitoring Services (VMS), the world leader in news and advertising monitoring and analysis services, today announced that it has acquired Mediamon, the nation's fifth largest broadcast monitoring company.

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: 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: 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: Freeman, the world’s leading provider of integrated solutions for face-to-face marketing, has acquired Wheelhouse, an experiential marketing services firm comprised of three companies – Champion Exposition Services, George Fern Company and Immersa Marketing, from Pamlico Capital.

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: 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: 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: 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.