Dallas, TX – Jeff Price, president of Cygnus Expositions and current chairman of the International Association of Exhibitions & Events (IAEE), will join the executive management team of Freeman on July 1. As executive vice president, a new position in the company,
Chicago, IL – Association executives have been invited to attend the upcoming Society of Independent Show Organizers (SISO) Executive Conference in New York this summer, an event that was formerly open only to for-profit show organizers. SISO says the invitation is being extended
London – Reed Elsevier will auction off its $50 million defense exhibitions unit over mounting controversy. Physician groups, academics, an investor and others have stepped up their protests, citing what they believe is a dichotomy over Reed publishing the leading medical
New York, NY – The $1.142 billion acquisition of Advanstar Communications by an investment group led by Veronis Suhler Stevenson was finalized on May 31. This is nearly two months to the day VSS signed a definitive agreement to acquire Advanstar
Orlando, FL – Champion Nationwide Contractor and the George E. Fern Company expanded into the Florida exhibition market by acquiring The Audie Group, another general service contractor. Terms of the deal were not announced. Audie Group founder Jim Audie now heads
Washington, DC – Mary Power announced her resignation as president of the Convention Industry Council (CIC) after a successful tenure that saw the Certified Meeting Planner designation gain in stature. Power, who joined the CIC in 2000, will also leave her
Philadelphia, PA and Bethesda, MD – American Capital, a publicly traded investment firm with $13 billion of assets under management, is expected to acquire full ownership of private facility management firm SMG, which manages over 200 public assembly facilities and 60 convention
Needham, MA – TechTarget, Inc., which produces executive-level technical conferences for the IT industry, announced an initial public offering (IPO) of 7.7 million shares of common stock at $13 per share. The company had filed paperwork for its IPO in early
Rockville, MD – Access Intelligence has acquired daratechPLANT Conference from Daratech, Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Held in Houston, TX every January, daratechPLANT features 30 exhibitors and more than 900 executive-level including suppliers and users of IT solutions for the fields of
Bonita Springs, FL — Primedia Inc. has sold its Enthusiast Media division to Source Interlink Companies in a deal valued at approximately $1.2 billion. Enthusiast Media has a portfolio that includes more than 65 events, 70 magazine titles and 90 Web
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