Lagardere SCA continues to build its expertise in sports management. After Sportfive and Newsweb, the acquisition of 100% of IEC strenghtens Lagardere Sports in production of events, products and sports rights management. EC had sales of €17 million in the fiscal year ended last Aug 31 with strong profitability (€4.1m).The acquisition package plans for an […]
According to the 2007 PMA U.S. Digital Imaging Survey, 20% of digital camera owners use their digital camera for artistic purposes, for moonlighting job, or to master photography skills. This segment of photo customers is called the advanced amateur or prosumer segment and has been generating much of the business at camera stores around the […]
What I really appreciated in London’s ability to secure the 2012 Olympic games – winning against Paris – was how they thought, selected and packaged their vision. I recall that that vision was around youth : how the young generation today would make the athletes of 2012. It is then quite coherent to select a […]
The belgium web agency, Emakina, listed on Alternext, announced May 31st, 2007 the acquisition of 50,1 % of Groupe Reflect. Manuel Diaz CEO of Groupe Reflect tells the story behind it. The value of the company was estimated to euro 2,4 million plus an undiscosed amount tied to performance over the next 3 years. Manuel […]
Google confirmed its acquisition of Feedburner, where excitement reaches its peak. Feedburner provides (free) feed distribution and management tools so that any reader can reach directly the publisher. You can use it on this weblog, for example! The terms were not disclosed ($100 million?) but the acquisition brings Google much closer to the publishers. […]
Several strikes in french media groups show difficulties to migrate traditional media to the new digital era and move towards profitability.Simulatenously, 3 strikes have been called by the staff in 2 media groups – Largadere Active, the world’s largest magazine publisher and NextRadio TV. At Europe 1, one of the leading french news radio, 100 […]
Internet, I-tunes and later Pandora had driven me back (briefly) to the music stores where i had not bought music albums for years. With Pandora, I was able to build radio channels around some of my favorite artists – Moby, Pat Methany, Massive Attack, Philipp Glass (on Last.fm) and many more. What i particularly liked […]
Smile but this is serious business – revenues and brand image (i.e. heavy investments). Ann Summers sells sex toys. One of them, iGasm, plugs into a music player and vibrates to the beat. Do let your imagination ramble a little!. They released an add which copies Apple’s iconic iPod advertsing campaign. Apple […]
The blogs have heavily commented the recent acquisition of aQuantive by Microsoft, as part of a move in strategic businesses. They have been put back in perspective of the great number of acquisitions of advertising companies over the past 8 weeks. All of it seems to be based on future earnings in online advertsiing. All […]