Informa

Informa’s potential buyers walk away from the deal

Informa, which owns Datamonitor, Ovum and Butler, stays on the shelf after Providence Equity Partners walked away from its planned purchase of the group. It would have been one of the largest private equity deals, and was never certain. As we discussed, the lack of synergies across the sprawling Informa group continue to make it […]

19Sep2008 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

Holway: Providence Equity bids world record amount for Informa

A quick ‘heads up’ from Richard:Informa gets bid from private equity consortium led by Providence Equity. Depending on whose maths you trust, the bid is more or less $6 billion: less according to The Times, but almost $7 billion according to the Financial Times (the FT correctly notes that the value of Informa’s debt also […]

2Jul2008 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

The value and post-acquisition performance of Informa

Guest post by Aleksandra Bosnjak, Lead TMT Analyst at StrategyEye, in advance of our recent webinar.
Informa, the UK-based B2B publishing and conference giant which just broke off its talks with UBM for a merger, now has another possible group of bidders: private equity groups Providence Equity Partners and Carlyle are working on a USD3.53bn cash […]

23Jun2008 | Aleksandra Bosnjak | 0 comments | Continued

Big stakes in Informa sale: Aleksandra Bosnjak on webinar panel

Duncan Chapple and Aleksandra Bosnjak have been billed as speakers for for our Informa webinar on the possible sale of the firm. Since both were formerly analysts at Ovum, part of the Informa group, they bring both a personal and professional insight into the challenges facing clients and future buyers of the firm. Aleksandra Bosnjak […]

18Jun2008 | Lotte Reddemann | 1 comment | Continued

On sale - Informa T&M, Datamonitor, Ovum and Butler

Informa is being bought, but by whom? United Business Media, the UK publishing giant, started the bidding and then dropped out. Now private equity groups are in play, such as Providence are bidding. The primary logic for a merger with UBM was the economies of scale in combining two large business media and exhibitions groups. […]

10Jun2008 | Duncan Chapple | 3 comments | Continued

Should Datamonitor sell Ovum? Join our ‘Advisor Spotlight’ call to find out

Would Yankee Group be a better owner of Ovum than Datamonitor? That’s one of the questions kicked around in last week’s Advisor Spotlight, our monthly discussion about leading analyst firms.
It’s an interesting question. Datamonitor had strong grounds for buying Ovum last year, and it was a smart buy. It made Ovum part of a business […]

22Oct2007 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued

Informa purchase values Datamonitor as worth more than Forrester

Informa has announced that it will purchase Datamonitor for £502 million: around $1 billion. It is an astonishing price, reflecting more than a ten percent premium over the firm’s market capitalisation. In contrast, Forrester Research’s capitalisation is currently $700 million.
However, not everyone thinks Informa may have over-paid. Jonny’s feeling is that this “of course means […]

14May2007 | Editorial | 0 comments | Continued