Category: Exhibitions and trade shows
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The Business of Acquisitions: At what point does consolidation create a shortage of shows to acquire?
Steve Monnington, CEO of Mayfield Merger Strategies, summarises the biggest transaction of the month and explores the circular relationship between founders and the larger acquisitive organisers. How 2026 M&A has started Another six exhibitions and three event services acquisitions continue M&A momentum. The biggest news of the month is the mega merger of Informa’s B2B…
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The Business of Acquisitions: Competing with private equity to buy shows
Steve Monnington, CEO of Mayfield Merger Strategies, summarises the frenetic M&A activity in December and talks to two acquisitive organisers who don’t have the luxury of Private Equity funding.
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The Business of Acquisitions: That was the year that was
Steve Monnington, CEO of Mayfield Merger Strategies reviews M&A activity in 2025 and profiles the founder team behind one of this year’s acquisitions.
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The Business of Aquisitions
In this month’s column, Steve Monnington, CEO of Mayfield Merger Strategies, explores a potential shift in relationships between UK and German trade show organisers and checks in with another entrepreneur behind one of this year’s acquisitions.
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The Business of Acquisitions
In his second column, Steve Monnington, CEO of Mayfield Merger Strategies, checks in with the entrepreneur behind one of this month’s acquisitions and profiles a new accelerator for show development and exit. The M&A trend I discussed in last month’s column continues. Six of the eight acquisitions recently announced were founded by entrepreneurs (the…
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UK exhibitions inject £11.5 billion into UK economy
The UK exhibitions industry generated £11.5 billion in total economic output in 2024, according to the annual Economic Impact Study by Oxford Economics, commissioned by the Events Industry Alliance.
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The Business of Acquisitions
In the first of a regular monthly column, Steve Monnington, CEO of Mayfield Merger Strategies, examines the importance of entrepreneurs in the exhibitions sector. From Batimat to Confex, today’s global organisers owe their successes to yesterday’s entrepreneurs In 2016, I was halfway through a presentation on mergers and acquisitions at the Exhibition and Event Association…
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Global exhibition organising revenue rankings highlight UK dominance
UK companies make up three of the top five exhibition organisers in the world, according to Stax, a global strategy consulting firm’s annual ranking. The Stax Top 20, published on 3 September 2025, ranks the global exhibition industry’s leading organisers based solely on their exhibition-organising revenues in 2024. Informa maintains its position as the world’s…
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Video preview: IBTM World Forum for Advocacy 2024
Claudia Hall, IBTM World’s Exhibition Director and Robert Wright, Founder of The Business of Events caught up with The Iceberg’s James Latham to preview November’s Forum for Advocacy 2024.
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The Impact of Business Events: Empowering Women in STEM
Making workplaces more inclusive for women was the main focus of the WISE (Women into Science and Engineering) Conference held at IET London: Savoy Place, on Wednesday, 16 October 2024.