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Informa Is Paying £2.24 Billion for More Trade Shows. It Plans to Separate the Academic Publisher It Has Owned Since 2004.

Informa, the London-listed events and publishing group, agreed on Tuesday to buy Clarion Events from Blackstone for an enterprise value of £2.24 billion, and launched a process to separate Taylor & Francis, its academic publisher. It raised about £940 million by selling new shares at 860p and paused its share buyback to pay for the deal.

By Cory Chamberlain · October 7, 2026

Culture

The Local Festival Becomes an Economic Development Line Item

Towns that once treated the annual festival as a civic nicety now fund it from economic development budgets and measure it accordingly. The measurement is where the trouble starts.

By Thomas Gutierrez · August 16, 2026

Media

Publishers Rediscover the Ballroom

Live events have moved from marketing sideline to core revenue at publications of every size, monetizing the one asset platforms cannot intermediate: the room.

By Margaret Holloway · July 28, 2026