Media and information industry first quarter M&A activity.According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Whitestone Communication's (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) quarterly M&A report, there were 132 announced transactions valued at $7.885 billion in 10 media and information categories during the first quarter of 2007, compared to 108 deals valued at $6.2 million in the first quarter of 2006. According to the report, there were 18 deals valued at $1.3billion in the Trade Magazine/Trade Shows category, including the sale of "DMNews" to Haymarket Media, VNU VNU Volontaires des Nations Unies (French) VNU Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven (Dutch) VNU Virtual Network User Business Publications' European assets to Incisive Media and the sale of Advanstar, compared to 20 deals valued at $178 million in the same period last year. Including the sale of Advanstar, announced on March 29, "The Business Publisher" tracked 21 deals involving 113 magazines in the B2B/STM Magazine category for the first quarter of 2007, compared to 15 deals involving 60 magazines in the first quarter of 2006. Forty-seven of those 113 magazines are produced by Advanstar. The results include KKR's acquisition of Laureate Education Laureate Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: LAUR) is an education services holding company, based in Baltimore, Maryland, which owns a number of for-profit colleges and online universities, including Walden University and other college brands worldwide. for $3.8 billion, the sale of Advanstar to Veronis Suhler Stevenson for $1.1 billion and Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. (Euronext: WKL) is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. sale of its education division for $535 million. |
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