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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
