The two big European giants of the B2B media space, London-based Informa and Germany-based Springer Science & Business Media in talks and Springer is interested in a takeover that would create a business worth more than £4 billion, reports Guardian. Springer is owned by the private equity companies Cinven and Candover.
Informa is the big publishing and conferences group, and publishes a number of newsletters in the digital media, technology and telecoms space (among others) and also operates 3GSM conference.
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