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Media - 2009
RAM Investment Group has acquired Estates Media Partners, the supplier of digital media and advertising to shopping malls, for £0.3m.
31-Dec-2009
MneTV is to relocate its Glasgow-based TV production business to STV's offices at Pacific Quay in January.
31-Dec-2009
Rivington Street is to acquire Rosslyn Research and Viewpoint Field Services, the market research companies, from IQ Holdings.
31-Dec-2009
Infoserve is looking to recruit an additional 50 sales staff at its Darlington-based online search business early next year.
21-Dec-2009
EMI has acquired Loudclothing, the Leicester-based music merchandising company with 18 staff, for undisclosed terms.
21-Dec-2009
Chilli UK, the Leeds-based brand design consultancy with 15 staff, has been acquired by the Home group.
21-Dec-2009
TSL, the Maidenhead-based broadcast systems integration firm, is setting up an office at The Pie Factory at MediaCityUK in Salford.
15-Dec-2009
United Business Media has acquired Virtual Press Office, the US provider of marketing services for exhibitions, for an initial £4m.
15-Dec-2009
Digital Marketing Group has acquired 20:20 London, the marketing services firm, for up to £2m.
15-Dec-2009
The British Film Institute is seeking a contractor to build a £9.5m master film store at its site in Gaydon, Warwickshire, by autumn 2011.
10-Dec-2009
ITV is to invest £5m in the refurbishment of its Kirkstall Road TV studio in Leeds over the next year.
07-Dec-2009
Lionsgate, the film distributor, is setting up a 6,000 sq ft headquarters at 60 Charlotte Street, London W1.
30-Nov-2009
CScape has sold its ITM Graphics and ITM Publishing Services subsidiaries to management for up to £0.2m.
25-Nov-2009
Endemol has expanded its TV production business with the £30m acquisition of Tiger Aspect, Tigress and Darlow Smithson from IMG.
24-Nov-2009
MBL Group is to acquire Global Media Vault, the London-based digital media distribution firm, for £0.8m.
24-Nov-2009
QVC, the TV shopping channel, is in negotiations to set up a 100,000 sq ft purpose-built office at Chiswick Park in London W4.
23-Nov-2009
T4 Media has acquired Alvern Media, the Croydon-based outdoor advertising company with seven staff.
23-Nov-2009
Smiths News is to set up a £1m newspaper distribution warehouse in Newmarket in February, with the relocation of about 26 jobs from Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds.
19-Nov-2009
Cogenta Systems, the price comparison website, is looking to create scores of jobs at its newly-opened office in Newcastle over the next few years, having secured a £0.8m venture capital investment.
18-Nov-2009
Interactive Publishing has acquired Scissorhands Media, the publisher of consumer magazines, from Financial One Securities for up to £0.5m.
16-Nov-2009
The BBC is said to be considering plans to set up a new TV studio at the 220,000 sq ft former Freeman's cigar factory at Penarth Road in Cardiff.
16-Nov-2009
Primesight is to open a new office in Manchester over the next few weeks, with the transfer of ten staff from its recently-acquired Titan outdoor advertising business in Liverpool.
12-Nov-2009
TrainFX has bought the assets of the ASG Media outdoor advertising business out of administration.
11-Nov-2009
WorkCast is looking to expand the workforce at its Durham-based video conferencing technology business from ten to 30 over the next year, having secured a £0.8m investment.
10-Nov-2009
ATTIK is to relocate the headquarters of its graphic design agency and up to 12 staff from Leeds to London in January.
09-Nov-2009
Internet Search Marketing is looking to create 33 new jobs at its office in Berwick over the next three years.
09-Nov-2009
Juice Digital, the Stockport-based digital media agency, has been acquired by Tangerine of Manchester for undisclosed terms.
09-Nov-2009
Zoom Media has bought Gym Screen Media, the operator of digital advertising screens at 160 venues, from Media 42 for undisclosed terms.
04-Nov-2009
MKM is to sell its Concepts For Travel and Leapfrog marketing and travel agency operations in Manchester to CPP Holdings of York for £4.7m.
26-Oct-2009
Amaze has acquired Underwired, the London-based digital marketing agency, for undisclosed terms.
26-Oct-2009
Infoserve is to create up to 60 new jobs at its online directories business in Darlington by next February.
26-Oct-2009
Business Internet Directory is creating up to 40 jobs at a new online services office in Leeds.
26-Oct-2009
Research Now, the online market research firm, is in discussions to be acquired by e-Rewards of the US for £80m.
22-Oct-2009
Boomerang Plus has acquired Indus Films, the Welsh TV production company, for an initial £1.1m.
21-Oct-2009
Thomson Reuters has acquired Breakingviews, the financial commentary website with offices in London, New York and Paris, for about £13m.
15-Oct-2009
The Phone Room is looking to recruit 30 staff for its new fundraising call centre in Oxford.
07-Oct-2009
Experian has acquired United MailSolutions, the German online marketing firm, for undisclosed terms.
05-Oct-2009
Chime Communications has acquired Essentially Group, the London-based sports marketing company, for £18m.
23-Sep-2009
Zodiak Entertainment is setting up a 20,000 sq ft TV production office at Network House near the Westfield shopping complex in London W12.
21-Sep-2009
Tangent Communications has acquired Snowball, the London-based customer insight agency, for up to £3.2m.
21-Sep-2009
Boomerang has acquired Method, the extreme sports multimedia firm, in order to expand its newly-created Boom Extreme Publishing division.
16-Sep-2009
Reader's Digest is to relocate its magazine publishing business from Canary Wharf to a 30,000 sq ft office at 242 Marylebone Road, London NW1.
14-Sep-2009
HMV has acquired a 50% stake in 7digital, the music download firm, for £7.7m.
07-Sep-2009
Incisive Media is to be split into two publishing businesses by its private equity owner Apax Partners, with banks taking over the UK division.
03-Sep-2009
MKM Group has sold a 90% stake in Promodus, the London-based marketing services firm, to Stripe Marketing in an all-share deal.
03-Sep-2009
Pelmark has been bought out of administration by DJM Promotions, securing the future of 35 jobs at its promotional materials supply business in Royston.
02-Sep-2009
Engine Group is considering plans for a flotation next year, in order to raise about £50m to fund the expansion of its marketing services business into Europe, China, India and the US.
31-Aug-2009
Avalon Group is to acquire Flame Television, the London-based TV production company, for undisclosed terms.
31-Aug-2009
News Corp is to set up a 180,000 sq ft office at the Thomas More scheme in London, in order to relocate parts of its media business from the nearby Wapping headquarters.
24-Aug-2009
UBC Media has acquired the assets of Radio Lynx, the radio and internet marketing company, from Music Marketing Services for £1.6m.
24-Aug-2009
Interactive Publishing has acquired Marine Media, the publisher of a sailing magazine, from Sterling Securities International for £0.2m.
20-Aug-2009
The University of Birmingham has won planning permission to build a £5m 450-seat concert hall on its main campus.
17-Aug-2009
Electric Word has raised £2.7m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its information publishing business.
17-Aug-2009
Sequence Post Production is looking to relocate its London-based TV and film production operations to a larger site in Soho by early 2010.
13-Aug-2009
ITV is to sell its Friends Reunited social networking business to the Brightsolid division of Dundee-based DC Thomson for £25m.
06-Aug-2009
Brainstorm Multimedia is to acquire Aston Broadcast, the video graphics systems company, from the Reading-based Softel Group for undisclosed terms.
06-Aug-2009
Soup Digital, the marketing agency with 35 staff in Norwich and London, has been bought out of administration by London-based Skive for undisclosed terms.
04-Aug-2009
G-Forces is planning to double the 56-strong workforce at its web design business near Maidstone over the next two years.
04-Aug-2009
ATG Broadcast is to relocate the BBC's London-based training and development unit from Marylebone High Street to White City by the end of August.
16-Jul-2009
Northcliffe Media has confirmed plans to shed about 30 jobs with the creation of two new centralised newspaper production hubs in Bristol and Swansea.
16-Jul-2009
Infoserve is looking to recruit up to 60 new sales staff for its Leeds-based online search business over the next few months.
15-Jul-2009
Huntsworth has acquired Tonic Life Communications, the London-based healthcare public relations company, for an initial £3m.
14-Jul-2009
NetPlay TV has raised £13m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its interactive TV gambling business.
13-Jul-2009
Clarity Creation has acquired McEntegart Marketing, the Liverpool-based public relations agency.
13-Jul-2009
Reed Elsevier is to sell its TWgroup travel publishing division to Clive Jacobs.
08-Jul-2009
Tarsus Group has raised £2.8m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its publishing, exhibitions and conferences business.
07-Jul-2009
Activ is planning to expand the workforce at its Leicester-based web design business from 17 to 50 by the end of the year, and will relocate to a larger site in Narborough Wood Park.
06-Jul-2009
Seven Marketing is planning to expand the workforce at its telemarketing call centre in Swansea from 45 to about 200, and it will relocate to Swansea Exchange.
06-Jul-2009
Freshwater has acquired Life Communications, the public relations firm with offices in Belfast and Dublin, for an initial £0.4m.
02-Jul-2009
Bloomsbury Publishing is to acquire Tottel Publishing, the professional and academic publisher with 27 staff in Haywards Heath, Edinburgh and Dublin, for £10m.
02-Jul-2009
Roomlinx of the US is planning to set up an office at one of the 11 Technium buildings in Wales, and up to 50 jobs could be created for the installation of interactive TV services in hotel rooms by 2012.
02-Jul-2009
Local Radio Company has sold Arrow FM of Hastings and Sovereign Radio of Eastbourne to Media Sound Holdings for £0.1m.
30-Jun-2009
Lincolnshire Echo is to relocate its headquarters to a 9,000 sq ft office at Witham Wharf in Lincoln in October.
23-Jun-2009
CN Group has sold five local radio stations in Coventry, Rugby, Stratford, Tamworth and Warwick to a new company called Quidem.
22-Jun-2009
Kraken Opus, the London-based publisher of luxury books, has undergone a management buy-out.
18-Jun-2009
Northwest Vision & Media has secured a £2.7m European grant to relocate to Salford Quays in Manchester this autumn.
16-Jun-2009
Local Radio Company has sold the Silk FM radio station in Macclesfield to Chester-based Dee 106.3 for undisclosed terms.
11-Jun-2009
Bauer Media is to close its Kerrang Radio newsroom in Birmingham, in order to relocate the work to Manchester.
11-Jun-2009
Hampton Associates has acquired CLiK Development for undisclosed terms, creating a combined Aberdeen-based marketing and software business with 14 staff.
09-Jun-2009
TMN Group is to acquire Progressive Digital Media Group, the magazines and conferences company with 200 sales staff and 400 product creators.
08-Jun-2009
Local Radio Company has sold its 80% stake in Fire Media, the Bournemouth-based radio station, to Westward Broadcasting for a nominal sum.
08-Jun-2009
Decision2day.com is to recruit 30 new sales staff at its Leeds-based online home improvements business, and a new office will open in Reading this month.
08-Jun-2009
The Foundry, the London-based visual effects company with 50 staff, has undergone a management buy-out backed by Advent Venture Partners.
03-Jun-2009
Mediaburst has acquired Promptext of Oxfordshire, in order to expand its mobile marketing business.
03-Jun-2009
Pinewood Shepperton has finalised plans for the £200m 100-acre expansion of its film studio in Buckinghamshire, which could create up to 1,600 jobs.
01-Jun-2009
Trinity Mirror is to close its Galloway News office in Castle Douglas later this year, and eight staff will relocate to Dumfries.
01-Jun-2009
Screen East has unveiled proposals to set up a special-effects studio in Norwich, specialising in performance capture technology for films, although other locations in Hertfordshire and Cambridge are also being considered.
27-May-2009
Formation Group, the sports management agency, is considering plans for a £25m management buy-out backed by Gresham.
25-May-2009
Global Radio has sold eight radio stations in Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Worcester and the East Midlands to a Leamington Spa-based former chief executive of Chrysalis Radio.
25-May-2009
UTV has acquired Sport, the weekly sports magazine, from Sport Media & Strategie, with the relocation of 20 staff to UTV's TalkSport office in London.
25-May-2009
Conduit is to create a further 75 jobs at its outsourcing call centres in Cardiff and Swansea, in order to provide customer services for BSkyB.
25-May-2009
Virgin Media is considering plans to relocate up to 300 jobs from the Fujitsu technical helpline call centre in Newport to IBM in Swansea.
25-May-2009
The BBC has selected the Roath Basin scheme in Cardiff Bay as its preferred location for a new 180,000 sq ft production facility, and its Welsh headquarters could also relocate to the site from Llandaff.
21-May-2009
IHS, the information services firm, is setting up a 33,900 sq ft office at 133 Houndsditch in the City of London.
18-May-2009
CVP-Mitcorp has bought the assets of Gearbox out of administration, saving 16 jobs at its broadcast equipment operations in London, Cardiff and Leeds.
13-May-2009
Vision Media Group has agreed terms for the sale of its TrainTV division to RAM Investment Group for an initial £0.9m, in order to focus on its Cheadle-based outdoor advertising screens business.
07-May-2009
Inuk, the Abercynon-based provider of internet protocol TV technology, has been acquired by Move Networks of the US for undisclosed terms.
30-Apr-2009
Shine Group has acquired Metronome Film & Television, the production company with operations in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and the US, for £60m.
30-Apr-2009
TSI Broadcast, the London-based TV broadcasting technology firm with six staff, has been acquired by WRN for undisclosed terms.
30-Apr-2009
YouGov is to acquire the trade and assets of Clear Horizons, the US online market research agency, for up to £1.8m.
29-Apr-2009
VOICE is planning to create 50 new jobs at its telemarketing call centre in Sheffield, and a second site will be set up over the next 12 months.
28-Apr-2009
The South West Scotland Screen Commission (SWSSC) has announced that an unnamed company is considering plans to set up a film production base in Dumfries & Galloway.
27-Apr-2009
Johnston Press is considering plans to relocate the Wakefield Express local newspaper away from Wakefield city centre, although a new location has not yet been found.
27-Apr-2009
IDOX is to acquire J4B Software & Publishing, the supplier of government and EU funding information, for £0.8m.
23-Apr-2009
Pearson has acquired Wall Street English, the Chinese provider of language training services, for £97m, in order to expand its Longman Schools division.
16-Apr-2009
Grant Thornton has sold Observer Standard Newspapers, the Worcestershire-based publisher with 150 staff, out of administration to Bullivant Media for undisclosed terms.
16-Apr-2009
Local Radio Company is to sell its Jazz FM brand to Jazz Investments for a nominal sum.
13-Apr-2009
Western Isles Council is planning to set up a £2.5m media and creative industries centre at a former Harris Tweed mill in Stornoway by 2010, which could lead to the creation of 60 jobs.
09-Apr-2009
Ph Creative is planning to open two new internet marketing offices in London and Manchester by June, and expects its 15-strong workforce to double over the next six months.
08-Apr-2009
Virgin Media has sold Sit-up, its London-based home-shopping business trading as Bid TV, Price-drop TV and Speed Auction TV with 450 staff, to Aurelius of Germany.
02-Apr-2009
Entertainment Rights, the owner of children's character rights, has gone into administration through Deloitte and immediately sold to Boomerang Media of the US for an estimated £75m.
02-Apr-2009
Eaga is planning to create a further 120 jobs at its Newcastle-based support services business by next year, in order to work on the nationwide change from analogue to digital TV.
26-Mar-2009
Avid Technology is to close its administration office in Soho, London, in July, and some of the 12 staff will relocate to Pinewood Studios.
26-Mar-2009
Smiths News has acquired Bertram Group, the Norwich-based newspaper and magazine wholesaler with 600 staff, for £8.6m, and a further £7m will be invested in the business.
24-Mar-2009
Posterscope, the media company, is planning to set up a 25,600 sq ft office at 45 Mortimer Street, London W1.
23-Mar-2009
APT has sold its broadcast hardware division to Audemat of France for undisclosed terms, in order to focus on the expansion of its Belfast-based audio technology business.
23-Mar-2009
Tindle Newspapers has bought five local newspapers in Devon and Somerset from View From Publishing, saving 25 jobs.
19-Mar-2009
Datamonitor is said to be considering plans to relocate its London market research office from Cardinal Tower to a 50,000 sq ft unit at Farringdon Road, to make way for the Crossrail project.
09-Mar-2009
RWS Holdings has acquired Communicare, the London-based provider of medical translation services with 15 staff, for £2.1m.
05-Mar-2009
Haynes Publishing Group has completed the sale of its manufacturing operation to JF Print for £0.4m, with the transfer of 43 Somerset-based staff.
04-Mar-2009
TRO is looking to recruit 30 staff at its marketing agency in Norwich, due to a seasonal increase in event activity.
04-Mar-2009
The Club Post Production has been sold out of administration to a new company called Post Couture, securing the future of 20 jobs at its London-based TV production business.
19-Feb-2009
Access to Music, the Leicester-based music training company with 250 staff at nine centres across the country, has been acquired by Armstrong Learning of Manchester for undisclosed terms.
19-Feb-2009
Ten Alps has acquired County Link Media, the Belfast-based online TV production company that is planning to launch a new channel called Fermanagh TV.
19-Feb-2009
Huntsworth is to acquire Momentum International, the Qatar-based PR and marketing firm, for up to £8.4m.
18-Feb-2009
ICE, the Merseyside-based provider of social marketing services, is to open a number of regional branches across the country this year, with the latest opening in Bristol.
17-Feb-2009
Procam Television is to relocate its equipment hire and crewing business to a new facility in Battersea in April.
16-Feb-2009
Ten Alps has acquired Below the Radar, the Belfast-based factual TV production company, for up to £0.8m, and has also announced plans to raise £3m in a share placing to fund acquisitions.
12-Feb-2009
Cosgrove Hall is creating more than ten production jobs in Manchester, having agreed a new animation deal with children's TV channel Cbeebies.
09-Feb-2009
Paver Smith is to acquire Pazang, the Wilmslow-based public relations agency, and will open a new office in Spinningfields, Manchester.
09-Feb-2009
Thomson Reuters is to set up an office at the Senate building in Exeter city centre, providing space for up to 70 staff.
02-Feb-2009
BSkyB is to create 1,000 jobs across the country, including 80 at a call centre in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, and 56 field engineers in Scotland.
29-Jan-2009
Mondiale Publishing has acquired the Imagine FM local radio station in Stockport from UTV Media for undisclosed terms.
28-Jan-2009
Daily Mail & General Trust has sold the Evening Standard, the London-based newspaper with 400 staff, to Alexander Lebedev of Russia for a nominal sum.
22-Jan-2009
Ph Creative has acquired BeVisible, the Liverpool-based search marketing company, and plans to open an office in London next month.
16-Jan-2009
McCann Erickson Communications House is to open a digital marketing office with up to 12 staff in Manchester city centre in March.
16-Jan-2009
The University of Salford is to set up a 100,000 sq ft education centre at Peel Holdings' Media City development at Salford Quays in Manchester in 2011.
14-Jan-2009
Paver Smith has acquired Stripe Communications, the Manchester-based PR consultancy, and is seeking new offices in the Spinningfields area.
08-Jan-2009
Bloomsbury Publishing has acquired the Arden Shakespeare literature series from Cengage Learning, in order to expand its Methuen Drama imprint.
07-Jan-2009