ABM News Archive - Deals
4/23/2013 - In an exclusive ABM video Elisabeth DeMarse, CEO and chairman of TheStreet, talks about subscription products which she believes is a driving force in the company's success.
4/3/2013 - Eight business-to-business media transactions, worth $102 million, occurred in Q1 2013, according to the latest numbers from The Jordan, Edminston Group Inc.
2/20/2013 - A jointly developed on-demand series of digital media training webinars from The Laredo Group and ABM is now available.
1/16/2013 - The company recently acquired a title, which increased its staff by 52 percent, says President Norm Kamikow. MediaTec is also debuting an event spinoff, the web portal HCM-TV.
1/8/2013 - In an ABM story last week, experts predicted more media M&A activity in 2013. Since then, many ABM members have announced deals.
12/28/2012 - Bobit Business Media has acquired Auto Dealer Monthly's assets, weeks after announcing its acquisition of Limoforsale.com.
12/19/2012 - Bobit Business Media has acquired the Limoforsale.com assets from Limos.com, reports Folio:.
12/19/2012 - ABM recently chatted with NewBay CEO Steve Palm to get more details on the company's international deal.
12/12/2012 - ABM recaps the most notable deals in a slideshow, plus two leaders in media and information M&A tell us what deals were intriguing to them.
12/12/2012 - According to Megan St. John, managing director at InfoCommerce, the acquisition is designed to strengthen the company’s content offerings.
11/14/2012 - Instead of being gobbled up by other media companies in b-to-b or in technology, ZDM and ZDE were both sold to two vendors. Is media M&A changing?
10/16/2012 - In a video statement, Stagnito publisher Steven Lichtenstein said Private Label will merge with Progressive Grocers Store Brands to form Private Label Store Brands.
10/1/2012 - M&A activity for b-to-b media jumped 118 percent in the first three quarters of this year, according to The Jordan, Edmiston Group Inc.
9/18/2012 - The acquisition includes magazines JEMS, FireRescue, Law Officer and Public Safety Communications.
7/27/2012 - For a second year, the Farm Journal Foundation will donate $500,000 to support the FFA: Food for All grant program, which funds local FFA chapters' long-term projects to fight hunger.
7/17/2012 - The acquisition of Northstar Travel Media was one of the largest in the b-to-b media industry this year, with more than 10 companies participating in the management phase, according to Northstar CEO Tom Kemp. Next on the horizon is capitalizing on new opportunities.
4/9/2012 - The company has purchased the former headquarters of KB Toys in Pittsfiled, Mass., for $1.1 million.
3/29/2012 - Publishing giant buys 20 percent of Stylus, a company that reports on consumer behaviors and trends.
3/14/2012 - Time Warner's CNN is reportedly in talks to acquire Mashable, a social media technology news site.
3/1/2012 - Northstar Media is up for sale, and has the interest of several buyers.
2/21/2012 - The Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) announced that the Postal Service will again offer a mobile bar code discount in 2012.
2/17/2012 - Two of the biggest entertainment trade media brands are partnering with the Associated Press to launch a new entertainment feed.
2/6/2012 - 30 people were let go immediately on Friday and in the coming weeks, a total of 100 ZDE employees will be cut from a workforce of 120 people.
2/2/2012 - Comag Marketing Group, the Princeton, New Jersey-based national magazine distributor jointly owned by Hearst and Condé Nast, has been sold to the Jim Pattison Group.
1/24/2012 - B2B daily deals service and ABM member RapidBuyr has inked a deal to deliver daily deals directly to HP web-connected printers,