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Media - 2011
Capita Group has acquired Applied Language Solutions, the Oldham-based provider of translation services with 130 staff, for up to £67m.
29-Dec-2011
Experian has acquired Garlik, the London-based provider of web monitoring services, for undisclosed terms.
29-Dec-2011
Chime Communications has acquired an 85% stake in Essentially France, the French sports agency, for up to £3.2m.
29-Dec-2011
LinkedIn, the US online networking firm, is reported to be considering plans for an 80,000 sq ft office at 21 Bloomsbury Street in London.
19-Dec-2011
Daily Mail & General Trust is to sell its Teletext TV news and information service to a management team for undisclosed terms.
15-Dec-2011
Media Square, the operator of ten marketing agencies, has been bought out of administration by a management team called MSQ Partners.
12-Dec-2011
Centaur Media has acquired Venture Business Research, the London-based digital information and analytics firm, for up to £7.5m.
12-Dec-2011
Intermarketing, the Leeds-based advertising agency with more than 50 staff, has undergone a management buy-out.
12-Dec-2011
MP & Silva is setting up a 5,200 sq ft office for its sports media business at 30 George Street in London W1.
08-Dec-2011
Pearson Vue is setting up a new 10,000 sq ft office for its online education business at Warrington Centre Park.
07-Dec-2011
Chorion is selling its Mr Men and Little Miss brands to Sanrio, as part of the Japanese company's plans to set up a UK subsidiary to expand its children's characters business.
07-Dec-2011
Coolabi, the London-based children's TV production company, has undergone a £4.9m management buy-out backed by Edge Performance VCT.
06-Dec-2011
Mecom is to sell its Edda Media business in Norway to A-pressen for £190m.
06-Dec-2011
SDL is to acquire Alterian, the marketing technology firm with offices in Bristol, Newbury and Poole, for £68m.
05-Dec-2011
MediaCom has acquired Brilliant Media, the media buying agency with 75 staff in Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham.
05-Dec-2011
Creston has acquired The Corkery Group, the US health and medical public relations company with 25 staff, for £3.8m.
30-Nov-2011
Omnisoft Services is to double the 30-strong workforce at its web services business in County Down by the end of the year.
28-Nov-2011
Pearson is to acquire Global Education & Technology, the Chinese provider of test preparation services for students, for £98m.
21-Nov-2011
Confidential Publishing has acquired How-Do and Place North West for undisclosed terms, in order to create a combined Manchester-based online publishing operation with 32 staff.
15-Nov-2011
EMI, the record company, has been acquired by Universal Music Group of France for £1.2bn.
14-Nov-2011
Betty, the London-based TV production firm with 24 staff and 70 freelancers, has been acquired by Discovery Communications for an estimated £10m.
08-Nov-2011
Riverside Studios in Hammersmith is to undergo a £190m redevelopment by owner Arab Investments, including more studio space and upmarket apartments.
02-Nov-2011
HIT Entertainment, the children's characters firm, has been acquired by Mattel of the US for £426m.
25-Oct-2011
Netflix of the US is to launch its online film service in the UK next year.
25-Oct-2011
Saatchi & Saatchi, the advertising agency, is reported to be considering 138-142 Holborn as a potential location for a new 170,000 sq ft headquarters from 2013.
24-Oct-2011
Intalekt is consolidating its marketing business at a new office on the Hodge Bank industrial estate in Nelson, and plans to double its 85-strong workforce in the medium-term.
24-Oct-2011
Morgan Sindall is to refurbish the MTV Studios and VIMN UK headquarters in Camden, North London, over the next year, in order to provide new studios and 35,000 sq ft of office space.
19-Oct-2011
ITV has acquired Channel Television, the Channel Islands-based TV broadcaster with 78 staff, for about £10m.
19-Oct-2011
ITV Wales is considering plans to relocate its Cardiff headquarters, as the current 170,000 sq ft site at Culverhouse Cross is too big.
19-Oct-2011
RAM Active Media has acquired Brandplay UK, the operator of advertising systems in shopping centres, for an initial £0.1m.
19-Oct-2011
Pearson has acquired TQ Holdings, the Derbyshire-based training services firm with gross assets of £23m.
18-Oct-2011
Daily Mail & General Trust is to take a 55% stake in a new online estate agency that will merge the activities of FindaProperty with Primelocation and Zoopla.
17-Oct-2011
Ebiquity has acquired Faulkner Media Management, the Australian media analytics consultancy with 25 staff, for up to £3.7m.
17-Oct-2011
Vision+Media is planning to set up a film studio at the 500-acre Woodford Aerodrome site near Stockport.
13-Oct-2011
Chime Communications is to acquire Gulliford Consulting, the marketing consultancy, for up to £4.7m.
12-Oct-2011
Headland Multimedia of Leeds has acquired Odin Solutions, the London-based web design firm with five staff, for undisclosed terms.
11-Oct-2011
The College Group has sold a majority stake to private equity firm Vitruvian Partners, in a deal that values the London-based marketing services firm at £45m.
10-Oct-2011
Fetch Media has acquired Lucidity Mobile, the London-based mobile media buying firm, for undisclosed terms.
05-Oct-2011
Endemol is setting up a new TV production and development centre in Glasgow.
03-Oct-2011
Shine is to expand its London-based TV production business by opening a new 10,500 sq ft facility at 42 Gloucester Avenue.
28-Sep-2011
Venture Photography has been bought out of administration by a new company called Indigo Venture Capital, saving 135 jobs at its Cheshire-based chain of 38 franchised photography studios.
28-Sep-2011
Reed Elsevier is to acquire Accuity Holdings, the US provider of financial subscription services with 300 staff and an office in London, for £343m.
27-Sep-2011
Sky is to create 50 new jobs at its City Walk sales and customer service call centre in Leeds.
22-Sep-2011
St Ives has acquired Pragma Holdings, the Twickenham-based retail and consumer markets consultancy with 17 staff, for an initial £3.3m.
21-Sep-2011
Porta Communications is to acquire an 80% stake in Threadneedle Communications, the London-based financial public relations company, for £3.8m.
20-Sep-2011
Motivcom has acquired the business and assets of online marketing firm Goldserve for an initial £1.5m, in order to expand its Zibrant events subsidiary.
20-Sep-2011
Heart Cambridgeshire is to relocate its radio station from Peterborough to a new facility at Histon in Cambridge.
19-Sep-2011
Wey Education is to acquire Place Group, the programme management and school services firm with annual turnover of £5.6m, for £1.6m.
19-Sep-2011
Pearson has acquired Connections Education, the US operator of online schools, for £250m.
19-Sep-2011
Baby Cow Productions is to relocate the Manchester operation of its TV production business to The Greenhouse at MediaCityUK.
13-Sep-2011
Fresh Group is planning to expand the 51-strong workforce at its Cheshire-based communications agency with up to 20 new jobs over the next year.
13-Sep-2011
Juice FM is to relocate its Liverpool-based commercial radio station and about 30 staff to a new £1.1m studio at One Park West next January.
12-Sep-2011
Ant Marketing is to create up to 200 jobs at a new 20,000 sq ft telemarketing office due to open on St Mary's Road in Sheffield by the end of the year.
12-Sep-2011
Compact Media Group has acquired Rights.tv, and will relocate the media rights consultancy to its London office.
07-Sep-2011
Restore has acquired Paterson Data Management, the Glasgow-based document storage firm, for £0.6m.
01-Sep-2011
Aegis is to acquire Master Ad, the Russian outdoor media firm with 80 staff, for up to £88m.
25-Aug-2011
Shed Productions is planning to relocate the production of its Waterloo Road TV programme to Glasgow, with the creation of 230 jobs.
24-Aug-2011
Daily Mail & General Trust has sold its George Little Management trade shows business in the US to private equity firm Providence Equity Partners for about £90m.
24-Aug-2011
Centaur Media has acquired Investment Platforms, the information provider to the retail financial services sector, for £1.8m.
23-Aug-2011
BBC Worldwide is to sell the Radio Times and ten other magazines to private equity firm Exponent, as part of deals worth £121m that also involve the sale of its 50% stake in Worldwide Media to Bennett Coleman.
17-Aug-2011
Quarto has acquired Frances Lincoln, the London-based book publisher, for £4.5m.
17-Aug-2011
Virgin Media has sold its 50% stake in UKTV, which includes ten entertainment and factual channels, to Scripps Networks Interactive of the US for up to £339m.
16-Aug-2011
Tinopolis has acquired BASE Productions, the US TV production company, for an estimated £25m.
15-Aug-2011
Allofus, the London-based digital consultancy, has been acquired by McCann Worldgroup and will relocate to Bloomsbury in September.
15-Aug-2011
IOS has bought Lateral Group, the marketing communications services firm trading as Howitt, Data Lateral and Dialogue Solutions, for undisclosed terms.
15-Aug-2011
NCC Group has acquired Axzona, the Edinburgh-based website monitoring firm, for up to £1.7m.
15-Aug-2011
Red Bee Media has acquired TV Genius, the Harrow-based developer of TV content discovery software.
04-Aug-2011
Facebook is to relocate its London office and up to 70 staff to a 36,000 sq ft unit in Covent Garden in January 2012.
03-Aug-2011
Building Blocks has acquired Ucensis, the Liverpool-based web design agency, increasing its workforce to 40.
02-Aug-2011
Zodiak Media Group has acquired Bwark, the London-based TV production company, for undisclosed terms.
01-Aug-2011
ITIS Holdings, the Altrincham-based provider of traffic and travel information with 150 staff, has been acquired by INRIX of the US for £37m.
01-Aug-2011
Amazon has acquired Pushbutton, the London-based TV technology company, for undisclosed terms.
01-Aug-2011
Aegis Group has sold its Synovate market research business to Ipsos of France for £525m.
28-Jul-2011
Finsbury is to merge with US-based sister company Robinson Lerer & Montgomery to create a combined public relations group called RLM Finsbury with 180 staff.
20-Jul-2011
Writtle Holdings has acquired Loewy Group to create a combined marketing services firm with 16 companies operating in branding, PR and design.
20-Jul-2011
Hasgrove has sold Interel, its public affairs and communications business with an office in London, to a management buy-out for £8.4m.
18-Jul-2011
TUI Travel has acquired the English Language Centre in York, in order to expand its TUI Education division.
18-Jul-2011
SeeSaw, the online video-on-demand service, is to be acquired by a consortium led by US merchant bank Criterion for an estimated £10m.
18-Jul-2011
Informa is creating 30 jobs at its publishing business in Colchester.
13-Jul-2011
Amazon is to create 40 new jobs at its LoveFilm DVD rental business in London, in order to expand its online streaming service.
13-Jul-2011
Havas, the advertising company, is setting up a 32,000 sq ft office at 60 St Martin's Lane in London's Covent Garden.
11-Jul-2011
Bloomsbury Publishing has acquired Continuum International Publishing, the academic and professional publisher with offices in London and New York, for £20m.
11-Jul-2011
Aegis has acquired a 75% stake in MediaVest (Manchester), the media planning and buying agency with 216 staff, for an initial £27m.
11-Jul-2011
John Menzies has acquired Media on the Move, the provider of media management services to the travel industry, from Journey Group for £1.2m.
11-Jul-2011
Flex Language Services, the translation services firm spun out of the University of Ulster with 250 interpreters, has been acquired by the Ortus development agency for undisclosed terms.
11-Jul-2011
Alliance Francaise is to relocate its Manchester-based language school to a 5,300 sq ft office at 55 Portland Street in August.
11-Jul-2011
Applied Language Solutions is to create 30 new jobs at its Oldham-based translation services business, having won a contract from the Ministry of Justice.
06-Jul-2011
AddPeople is looking to double the 80-strong workforce at its Altrincham-based digital marketing services business by 2015.
06-Jul-2011
BSkyB is said to be planning to set up a new call centre at Wellbar Central in Newcastle city centre, with the creation of 400 jobs.
04-Jul-2011
Media Sales Network has acquired the Manchester-based Sustain' magazine and awards business, and is now looking to acquire a further five titles.
04-Jul-2011
Leonard Curtis has arranged a pre-pack administration at Sugarvine, securing the future of about 20 jobs at its Blackpool-based online media business.
04-Jul-2011
Imagesound, the Chesterfield-based supplier of commercial music services, is to be acquired by a new company called Concentia for £10m.
04-Jul-2011
Tinopolis has acquired A Smith, the US TV production company, for about £60m.
29-Jun-2011
UBM is to sell its UK entertainment and technology magazines portfolio to Intent Media for £2.4m, with the transfer of up to 36 staff.
27-Jun-2011
Cupid has acquired a 75% stake in the German online media companies OnlineLiebe and WomenWeb for £2.5m.
23-Jun-2011
Iliffe Newspapers has acquired five former Northcliffe Media newspapers in Staffordshire and South Cheshire for about £1m.
22-Jun-2011
Communisis has bought the trade and assets of OBL, the Bristol-based marketing services firm, out of administration for £2.2m.
15-Jun-2011
BSkyB is reported to be in negotiations to set up a 162,000 sq ft office at the First Central Business Park in London NW10.
14-Jun-2011
MSA Digital, the London-based marketing agency, has been acquired by Home Marketing of Leeds, taking the total workforce to 90.
13-Jun-2011
Boomerang Plus has acquired the trade and assets of Oxford Scientific Films, the London-based film production company, for £0.5m.
09-Jun-2011
IndigoVision is to expand its Edinburgh-based CCTV business with 6,000 sq ft of additional office space at the Edinburgh Technopole business park, with the creation of 15 jobs.
09-Jun-2011
Smiths News is to acquire Dawson Holdings of Croydon for £20m, in order to expand its Bertrams book wholesaling business.
07-Jun-2011
Libra Television is to relocate its Manchester-based media business to MediaCityUK's Greenhouse office in Salford Quays, along with companies such as Armstrong Legal and Kelly's Eye Animation.
31-May-2011
The BBC is in negotiations to sell its magazine publishing business to private equity firm Exponent for an estimated £100m.
26-May-2011
Ebiquity has acquired Echo Research, the advertising and media analysis firm with 45 staff in London, France, Singapore and the US, for up to £10m.
23-May-2011
Google has agreed to take 160,000 sq ft of office space at the Central Saint Giles development in the West End of London.
19-May-2011
Expedia is reported to be considering plans to relocate its London-based online travel business to an 80,000 sq ft office at the Angel Building in Clerkenwell.
18-May-2011
Sky is planning to create 50 new finance jobs at the Alba Campus in Livingston.
16-May-2011
Next Fifteen Communications has acquired CMG Worldwide, the digital agency trading as Bourne with offices in Glasgow, London and the US.
16-May-2011
Liberty & Cole, the Edinburgh-based PR firm, has been acquired by 72 Point for undisclosed terms.
16-May-2011
Shine Group is to relocate its Shine International TV sales and distribution operation from the US to London.
12-May-2011
Double Negative is to relocate its London-based visual effects business to an 86,000 sq ft office at 160 Great Portland Street by November 2012.
10-May-2011
Quindell is to undergo a reverse takeover by cash shell Mission Capital, in order to gain a £33m listing on Aim and expand its marketing business.
09-May-2011
SDL has acquired Calamares, the Dutch media asset management company, for undisclosed terms.
04-May-2011
CAN Media Group, the Preston-based community TV company with 85 staff, has been acquired by Live It & Learn of Cheshire for undisclosed terms.
03-May-2011
Pinewood Shepperton has agreed a £96m takeover offer from Peel Holdings, and £20m will be invested in the expansion of its film studios.
28-Apr-2011
Pearson is to acquire Schoolnet, the US education technology company, for £140m.
26-Apr-2011
BDO has sold the Sunday Sport newspaper out of administration to its original owner, and it will be relaunched with eight staff based at Ardwick in Manchester.
26-Apr-2011
Aegis Media is to consolidate its subsidiary advertising agencies into a single office at Regent's Place in London over the next few months.
26-Apr-2011
Ideal Shopping Direct, the TV shopping company, is to be acquired by Inflexion Private Equity for £78m.
21-Apr-2011
Tesco has acquired an 80% stake in Blinkbox, the London-based movie streaming service, for undisclosed terms.
21-Apr-2011
The Mill, the London-based TV and film production company, has been acquired by Barclays Private Equity in a £119m deal.
20-Apr-2011
Montpellier Marketing Communications Group (MMCG), the Cheltenham-based PR and marketing firm, has been sold out of administration by Smith & Williamson to a management team.
20-Apr-2011
International Sports Management has acquired Rule 1.02 Marketing, the US sports marketing consultancy, for undisclosed terms.
19-Apr-2011
Ioko, the York-based online video services developer with 380 staff, is to be acquired by KIT Digital for about £50m.
14-Apr-2011
Osprey Group has acquired Old House Books, the Devon-based map publishing firm, for undisclosed terms.
14-Apr-2011
Cello Group has acquired Red Kite Consulting, the Surrey-based healthcare marketing consultancy, for undisclosed terms.
12-Apr-2011
BSkyB has appointed Hanover Green to find a suitable building in west London for a new office of up to 180,000 sq ft.
11-Apr-2011
Chime Communications is to acquire Icon, the Sidcup-based marketing and branding firm, for an initial £11m.
07-Apr-2011
Centaur Media has acquired The Forum for Expatriate Management for up to £6.7m.
07-Apr-2011
Rippleffect is to invest £2m in the expansion of its Liverpool-based digital marketing agency, including a new office in Manchester and 30 new jobs.
06-Apr-2011
Gowalla, the online social networking firm, is considering plans to open an office in London later this year.
05-Apr-2011
Red Arrow Entertainment is to acquire a 51% stake in The Mob Film Company, the film production company with offices in Manchester and London.
31-Mar-2011
Blipfoto has secured £5m to fund the expansion of its Edinburgh-based online photo sharing service, with the creation of 16 jobs.
28-Mar-2011
WPP, the advertising company, is considering plans to relocate its tax headquarters from Ireland back to the UK.
24-Mar-2011
Huntsworth has acquired Atomic PR, the US-based PR agency with an office in London, for an initial £8.3m.
23-Mar-2011
Emerald Group Publishing has acquired Pier Professional, the Brighton-based publisher of 23 health journals.
17-Mar-2011
Sky is to create 100 new jobs at its customer business systems call centre in Livingston.
14-Mar-2011
Call Agents UK is creating 30 jobs at its telemarketing call centre in Middlesbrough.
14-Mar-2011
Leo Burnett has acquired Airlock, the London-based digital advertising agency with 18 staff, for undisclosed terms.
14-Mar-2011
Pearson is to acquire Education Development International, the Coventry-based training services firm, for £113m.
08-Mar-2011
Media Sales Network, the Manchester-based advertising sales agency, has undergone a management buy-out from Unique Communications Group.
08-Mar-2011
The BBC has appointed Lambert Smith Hampton to advise on the possible relocation of its Bristol headquarters to a more suitable location.
03-Mar-2011
City TV Broadcasting is hoping to create up to 60 jobs in Birmingham if it wins a new local TV broadcasting licence.
02-Mar-2011
United Business Media is to sell its UK licensed trade publications to William Reed for an initial £1.5m and its French medical publications to management for £3.7m.
01-Mar-2011
Sky is to expand its customer service call centre in Stockport by 5,600 sq ft, with the creation of an unspecified number of jobs.
01-Mar-2011
Independent Media Distribution, the provider of content distribution and advertising data services, is to be acquired by private equity firm Vitruvian Partners for £34m.
01-Mar-2011
MTV is to extend its Camden office by 35,000 sq ft by autumn 2012, and 400 staff will relocate from three closed studios in central London.
28-Feb-2011
Shine Group, the London-based TV production company, is to be acquired by News Corporation for £415m.
22-Feb-2011
Topline SEO is to set up a 3,000 sq ft office at Digital Park in Salford, with an option to acquire additional space.
22-Feb-2011
Media Square is to sell the assets of Arken, the Newmarket-based supplier of point of purchase display materials, to Writtle Holdings for £0.7m.
22-Feb-2011
Creative England is planning to set up three new regional agencies in Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol to promote the media, film and digital sector.
21-Feb-2011
St Ives has acquired Tactical Solutions UK, the Chester-based sales and marketing company with 320 staff, for an initial £15m.
10-Feb-2011
Tribal Group has sold the assets of its Tribal Resourcing advertising and e-solutions business to TMP (UK) for a nominal sum.
10-Feb-2011
Urban Realm, the Glasgow-based architectural magazine, has undergone a management buy-out from Carnyx Group for undisclosed terms.
07-Feb-2011
OutNow Entertainment, the DVD rental firm, has been bought out of administration by MBL Group.
07-Feb-2011
Citigroup has acquired EMI, the record label, and is expected to sell off parts of the business.
03-Feb-2011
Daily Mail & General Trust is planning to relocate its Harmsworth printing operation and up to 157 jobs from Surrey Quays in London to a new £50m site in Thurrock over the next four years.
02-Feb-2011
Callcredit Information Group has acquired Latitude, the digital marketing firm with 95 staff in Cheshire and London, for undisclosed terms.
01-Feb-2011
BSkyB is planning to set up a new Sky TV call centre in Sheffield in July, with the creation of 500 jobs, and expects to create 1,500 jobs across the country.
31-Jan-2011
Publicis is to acquire Chemistry Communications Group, the London-based advertising and marketing firm with 178 staff, for £14m.
27-Jan-2011
Express Newspapers is said to be planning to transfer newspaper production from London to a new printworks in Luton, where it would employ at least 300 staff.
26-Jan-2011
EC English Language Centre is to open a new language school at Queen Square in Bristol next month, with the creation of up to 45 jobs.
26-Jan-2011
Facebook of the US has appointed DTZ to find a suitable location in London for a headquarters of up to 30,000 sq ft.
25-Jan-2011
Fresh Group has sold its Cheadle-based Freshrewards loyalty campaigns business to a management team for undisclosed terms.
25-Jan-2011
UKTV is planning to relocate its London-based TV broadcasting business and 160 staff from Great Portland Street to Hammersmith.
24-Jan-2011
Amazon has acquired Lovefilm, the film rental firm operating in the UK, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, for undisclosed terms.
24-Jan-2011
Datatec is to acquire Direct Visual, the West Yorkshire-based video communications supplier, for undisclosed terms, in order to expand its Logicalis subsidiary.
24-Jan-2011
Cwmni Da is to proceed with plans for a £2m TV and film production centre at a former printworks in Caernarfon, with the relocation of 65 staff and the creation of ten new jobs.
24-Jan-2011
Channel 4 is looking to invest £4m in the commissioning of digital media from independent firms outside London over the next two years.
19-Jan-2011
Burson-Marsteller, the PR firm, is to take half of the 43,000 sq ft sixth floor office at Central Saint Giles in London's West End.
19-Jan-2011
Experian has acquired a majority stake in Techlightenment, the London-based developer of social media marketing tools with annual turnover of £5m.
18-Jan-2011
FoneStarz Media, the Cambridgeshire-based developer of mobile phone entertainment content with 35 staff, has been acquired by Livewire Mobile of the US.
10-Jan-2011
Dene Group is looking to expand the 30-strong workforce at its Newcastle-based film production business to 50 over the next few years, and is consolidating staff into a new office at Stepney Bank.
10-Jan-2011
Automated Systems Group, the Cambridge-based printing and copying firm with 60 staff, has undergone a £8.5m management buy-out backed by Matrix Private Equity Partners.
06-Jan-2011