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Media - 1997
Reed Elsevier is to acquire Editions Prat, the French legal publisher, for undisclosed terms.
27-Dec-1997
Johnston Press is acquiring Home Counties Newspapers, the family-controlled publisher of the Hampstead and Highgate Express, for £52m.
23-Dec-1997
Southern Newspapers has acquired Bailey Newspaper Group, the Gloucestershire-based regional newspaper publisher, for £35m.
23-Dec-1997
Ginger Productions is acquiring Virgin Radio for £85m, thereby preventing Capital Radio from succeeding with its £87m bid.
09-Dec-1997
Taylor Nelson AGB is to acquire Sofres, the French market information company, for £119m, in order to improve the market research services offered to multinational companies.
19-Nov-1997
Emap is acquiring medical magazines and exhibitions from Macmillan Magazines at a cost of £102m.
18-Nov-1997
M-R Group has acquired PCL Group, the information supplier, for £4.5m.
15-Nov-1997
Timothy Benn Publishing, which prints the Post Magazine, is being sold to a management buy-in for £17m.
13-Nov-1997
Hays has acquired DEI, the document management company, for an initial £17m, in order to expand its range of back-office support services.
05-Nov-1997
Visual Action, the corporate presentations company, is being acquired by Carabiner of the US.
30-Oct-1997
Photobition is acquiring Novo, the distributor of films to airlines and studios, for £28m with the intention of converting the films into a digital format.
23-Oct-1997
Reed Elsevier is planning a £17.5bn merger with Wolters Kluwer of Amsterdam, creating the world's largest professional and scientific publisher with combined sales of about £5bn.
14-Oct-1997
Johnston Press has acquired North Derbyshire Newspapers for undisclosed terms.
09-Oct-1997
Avesco is acquiring 94% of Jongenelen Holdings, the Dutch giant screen rental company, for up to £2.3m.
03-Oct-1997
GMBM, the recruitment advertising agency, has been acquired by a management team from Osprey Communications for about £1m.
03-Oct-1997
Pearson has acquired All American, the US TV production company, for £233m, and now claims that its Pearson TV subsidiary is the largest international producer of entertainment and serial drama.
02-Oct-1997
Cordiant, the advertising group, has announced plans for a demerger, which will result in two separate companies - Saatchi & Saatchi and Cordiant Communications Group, which will own the Bates agency.
01-Oct-1997
Cypher Group has been created to acquire Library Services (UK) from Blackwell and Morley Books and Greenhead Books from Johnston Press, for a total consideration of £7.5m, making it the leading supplier of library books.
16-Sep-1997
WPP is to acquire Buchanan Communications, the public relations company, for up to £15m.
12-Sep-1997
Bristol United Press has acquired the Wessex regional newspapers business, which includes 11 West Country newspapers, from Newsquest for £35m.
11-Sep-1997
VFG has bought GP Film Services, the broadcast equipment rental concern, for £1.4m.
06-Sep-1997
United News & Media is acquiring Telecom Library, the US publisher of computer-telephony magazines, for £80m.
02-Sep-1997
Photobition Group is acquiring Scanachrome, the graphics business, for up to £3m in order to expand its product range and geographical coverage.
30-Aug-1997
Rushmere Wynne, the financial publisher, is acquiring Coutts Consulting's training division for £6.5m, which includes the Eynsham Hall and Chewton Place training companies.
28-Aug-1997
Trinity International is acquiring Post Publications, the Dublin-based publisher of the Sunday Business Post, for £4.9m.
20-Aug-1997
Pearson is to sell its Churchill Livingstone medical publishing operation to Harcourt General of the US for £57m.
16-Aug-1997
Reed Elsevier has sold its Tigerprint greeting cards business to management for £12.5m, as part of a plan to sell off its Reed Books division.
11-Aug-1997
Chrysalis is to acquire Faze FM Radio, which runs Kiss 102 in Manchester and Kiss 105 in Yorkshire, for £17.5m.
07-Aug-1997
Abbott Mead Vickers, the advertising agency, has acquired Aurelia Public Relations, which specialises in the fashion industry, for up to £4.2m.
25-Jul-1997
Euromoney Publications has acquired Institutional Investor, the US business press company, from Walt Disney for £85m.
17-Jul-1997
Mirror Group is acquiring Midland Independent Newspapers for £297m, making it a major force in regional newspapers.
05-Jul-1997
United News & Media has made a recommended £262m bid for the remaining 70% of HTV, the Welsh broadcaster, signalling further consolidation in the independent TV sector.
28-Jun-1997
Reed Elsevier is acquiring the three main divisions of Chilton Business Group, the US trade press publisher, for £270m.
24-Jun-1997
Megalomedia is acquiring Computer Film Holdings, the supplier of digital effects on movies, for up to £8.6m.
17-Jun-1997
Granada is planning a takeover of Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television, which is thought to be worth about £800m, in a deal that would create a dominant force in independent television in the north of England.
10-Jun-1997
Thomson Directories, the information services company, is being sold by US West International to a consortium that includes existing management for £80m.
05-Jun-1997
Scottish Media, the owner of Scottish Television, is to acquire Grampian, the other Scottish ITV company, for over £100m.
02-Jun-1997
Southern Star Group of Australia has launched a recommended £8.3m takeover bid for Circle Communications, the UK television rights company.
15-May-1997
Capital Radio is acquiring Virgin Radio Group, which owns a national commercial licence and an FM licence in London, for £65m, giving Capital a total of three radio stations in London.
07-May-1997
Carlton Communications has acquired Rank Film Distributors from the Rank Group for £65m.
03-Apr-1997
Reed Elsevier is to acquire MDL Information Systems, the US manager of research and development information, for £201m.
25-Mar-1997
Reed Elsevier has acquired Colofon, the Dutch publisher of scientific and business material, for up to £80m.
21-Jan-1997